George Bähr

[1][2] George Bähr was born into a poor family in Fürstenwalde (now a part of Geising, Saxony), the son of a weaver.

Between 1719 and 1726 the church in Forchheim was built, as well as more in Königstein, Hohnstein and Kesselsdorf (all in Saxony) and a considerable amount of housing in Dresden.

[5] Whilst working on the Frauenkirche, Bähr also oversaw the building of the Dreikönigskirche in Dresden's Neustadt area, designed by Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann.

George Bähr did not live to see the Frauenkirche completed – he died in Dresden, aged 72, and was buried in the church's vaults.

In 2018, researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena analyzed the genome of George Bähr.