Karl Ganser

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Dedication in the Natur-Park Südgelände , in Berlin-Schöneberg (2019)

Karl Ganser (born September 15, 1937 in Mindelheim ) is a German geographer and city ​​planner . He became known in the professional world primarily as the managing director of the (IBA) International Building Exhibition Emscher Park .

Life

Karl Ganser was born the son of a farmer. After studying chemistry, biology and geography at the Technical University of Munich , Ganser received his doctorate in 1964 and in the same year became an assistant and lecturer at the Geographical Institute of the Technical University of Munich. In 1967 he switched to the urban development department of the state capital of Munich as project manager . In 1970 he qualified as a professor, in 1971 he went to Bonn as head of the Institute for Regional Studies. He merged this with the Institute for Spatial Planning to form what was then the Federal Research Center for Regional Studies and Spatial Studies (today part of the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning ), of which he remained director until 1980. From 1980 to 1989 he was head of the urban development department in the Ministry for State and Urban Development of North Rhine-Westphalia . In 1989 he took over the post of managing director of the IBA (International Building Exhibition Emscher Park). Ganser has been retired since 1999, but continues to work as a publicist, reviewer and mediator. Among other things, he was appointed as a mediator in the dispute over the Dresden Waldschlößchenbrücke .

Activities and honors

Ganser was particularly committed to urban renewal projects and was also guided by ecological issues. As IBA managing director, he particularly tried to promote the transformation of the old industrial areas and the reclamation of the landscape in the Emscher area . He also campaigned for the preservation of industrial monuments and prevented the demolition of the Essen Zeche Zollverein , the Oberhausen gasometer and the steelworks in Duisburg - Meiderich (today central part of the Duisburg-Nord landscape park ). In 2011 Ganser advised on the renovation of the Sayner Hütte in Bendorf on the Middle Rhine .

Prizes and awards

In 1999 Ganser received an honorary doctorate from the Ruhr University in Bochum . This honored his commitment as "one of the architects of the new Ruhr area". In 2003 Ganser received the State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia . Furthermore, he has been an honorary citizen of the Ruhr area since 1995 and became an honorary member of the Association of German Architects BDA in 1997 . In 2001 he was awarded the cultural penny of the German Cultural Council, but Ganser did not accept it in protest against the destruction of the Vockerode industrial monument .

In 2007, Karl Ganser received the Bavarian Nature Conservation Prize for his decades of commitment to urban renewal projects, area protection and the interests of nature and environmental protection; Particular mention was made of his work at the Emscher Park International Building Exhibition from 1989 to 1999, where he set in motion a circular economy in land and energy consumption, in the building stock and in water management based on the principle of "change without growth".

Works (selection)

  • Industrial culture in Augsburg. Pioneers and factory locks . Augsburg 2010: Context Medien und Verlag, ISBN 978-3-939645-26-9
  • Love at second sight - International Building Exhibition Emscher Park 1999

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Rossmann : Reformer of the area . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 15, 2017, p. 13.
  2. ^ WDR ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Ruhr-Uni Bochum awards Karl Ganser an honorary doctorate on June 30, 1999
  4. ↑ State Prize NRW 2003

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SURNAME Ganser, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German city planner
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Mindelheim