On 5 March 1888, he was sworn in as a Regierungsbauführer (Referendar) in Saarbrücken, but before taking up his duties, he first did his military service as a one-year volunteer, which he did from April 1888 with the 8th Rhenish Infantry Regiment No.
He obtained a position as Regierungsbaumeister (assessor) in the technical office of the structural engineering department of the Prussian Ministry of Public Works in Berlin.
After the first Silesian provincial conservator Hans Lutsch [de] had been appointed to Berlin, Burgemeister became his successor in 1905.
According to the obituary of his successor, Burgemeister's professional life had three significant contents: his buildings, his publications and his monument preservation activities.
[1][2] Burgemeister then had to prepare a design for the new building of the university's agricultural institute in Breslau's Hansastrasse.
Burgemeister was also involved in the planning of the Oberpräsidialdienst building on Neumarkt; however, the design was largely the work of Baurat Loewe.
He designed a gymnasium for the Provincial Welfare Institution Wołów, the new building of the so-called "home for cripples" with a workshop building and the director's residence in Rothenburg, and a former old people's home for Namysłów (today a primary school with bilingual departments).
[3] The children's convalescent home in Jannowitz, which was built from 1928 to 1931, also goes back to Burgemeister's plans, but was realised in a more economical form than originally intended.
During the First World War, he also had the special task of advising on the confiscation of bells that were to be melted down for armament purposes.