Albert Brodersen
Albert Bernhard Andreas Brodersen (born November 16, 1857 at Gut Ascheberg ; † January 4, 1930 in Berlin ) as the son of the royal rent master Andreas B. zu Hohenwestedt was a German landscape architect and from 1910 to 1924 the city gardening director in Berlin. On the occasion of his 150th birthday, the Lindenallee in the park of Schloss Biesdorf was renamed Albert-Brodersen-Allee. Brodersen designed the park for the Siemens family .
Life
education
Albert Brodersen spent his youth in Hohenwestedt , where his father had found a position as rent manager in 1869 . Brodersen's school attendance was followed by around ten years of practical training as part of activities in various well-known nurseries. He also made numerous study trips to Great Britain, Italy, France, Vienna, Paris, Moscow and Budapest. In 1884 he passed the exam as a royal head gardener in the Wildlife Park Potsdam .
Marriage and self-employment
In 1887 Brodersen and Dorothea Körner married, whose father was the owner of a well-known landscape gardening company in Steglitz and in whose company he joined in 1888. After the death of his father-in-law on March 17, 1894, he and his brother-in-law Gustav Körner ran the landscape gardening company Körner & Brodersen . During these years around 20 larger landscaped areas were created, mainly for wealthy entrepreneurs in the Rhineland , but also in Berlin and what is now Poland. Well-known are Lerbach Castle in Bergisch Gladbach , Koenig Park in Guben and numerous villa gardens in Potsdam , Berlin-Grunewald , on Großer Wannsee ( Liebermann Villa ), and also the villa garden of Landhaus Borsig on the Reiherwerder peninsula on Lake Tegel , which is today is under monument protection as a garden monument . Urban development projects, the installation of horse racing tracks in Cologne and other sports facilities were also part of it.
Term of office in Berlin
His reputation as a landscape gardener probably led to his being appointed as the successor to Hermann Mächtig as Berlin gardening director in 1910 . As part of the planned urban development, he was primarily involved in the expansion and redesign of the original Berlin decorative squares into garden squares and in the design of parks. For example, between 1913 and 1916, he laid out the part of Viktoriapark west of Möckernstrasse. Other fields of activity were the planting of avenue trees on the streets, the establishment of playgrounds and school gardens to educate the population.
Because of the economic and political conditions during and after the First World War , Broderson was not allowed to realize new ideas. So it was left to his successor Erwin Barth to fight for the social green spaces that are still valid today during the brief heyday of the Weimar Republic . During his term of office, the Rehberge Volkspark , which was still designed by Albert Brodersen and was created on the 120 hectare sandy, swamp and forest area of the Rehberge, began in 1926 . This park marked a high point in the design of public parks in Berlin.
From 1920 Brodersen experienced the discussion about who should become garden director of Greater Berlin. The question was no longer decided during his tenure. He entered in 1924 into the retirement , but officiated apparently still to hold office until his successor in 1926 on.
Albert Brodersen's marriage to Lina Louise Dorothea Koerner, a daughter of landscape gardener Franz Friedrich Gottlieb Körner zu Steglitz, gave birth to four daughters and a son who died in the First World War. A memorial erected in Hohenwestedt from 1920 under Brodersen's direction commemorates him and the other fallen soldiers of the First World War in Schleswig-Holstein .
literature
- Clemens Alexander Wimmer: Parks and Gardens in Berlin and Potsdam . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-87584-267-7 , p. 44.
- Markus Sebastian Braun (Ed.): Berlin. The architecture guide . Quadriga, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-88679-355-9 , p. 127.
- Dietmar Land, Jürgen Wenzel: Home, nature and cosmopolitan city. Life and work of the garden architect Erwin Barth. Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-7338-0338-8 , pp. 327-335.
Web links
- Albert Brodersen. Garden board of the State Office for Monument Preservation Schleswig-Holstein (PDF; 81 kB)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brodersen, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brodersen, Albert Bernhard Andreas (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landscape architect and urban gardening director in Berlin (1910–1926) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1857 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Good Ascheberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1930 |
| Place of death | Berlin |