He is remembered in particular for the Böttcherstraße houses he and his associate Alfred Runge built for the coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius.
After serving an apprenticeship as a mason, he attended the Technical College in Bremen where he graduated in 1903.
[1] In July 1904, he joined his student friend Alfred Runge (1881–1946) to work as an architect and building contractor in Bremen.
[1] In 1907 Wiegard awarded Runge and Scotland a contract to design the interiors of the four-funnel ocean liner SS Kronprinzessin Cecilie which his company launched in 1907.
[3] The ship was to be the regular ocean liner that linked Bremen with New York City.