Catherina Ruffing-Bernadotte

Catherina Ruffing Countess Bernadotte af (von) Wisborg , (born April 11, 1977 in Scherzingen , Switzerland ) is a German-Swedish landscape architect and former organizer of the federal competition Our village should be more beautiful - our village has a future .

Life

She is the third of five children from Lennart's second marriage to Sonja Bernadotte (née Haunz) (Lennart Bernadotte already had four children from his first marriage). She grew up in her parents' castle on the island of Mainau (Lake Constance). After graduating from high school at the humanistic Heinrich-Suso-Gymnasium in Konstanz in 1996, I went to language courses in Sweden, France and Spain.

In 1998 she began her studies at the Weihenstephan University of Applied Sciences , which she completed in 2004 as a graduate engineer in the field of landscape architecture (FH). From March to August 2000 she did an internship in the Gothenburg Botanical Garden ( Göteborgs botaniska trädgård ). From September 2000 to May 2001 she worked at Charles Funke Associates , a landscape architecture office in Godalming , Surrey (Great Britain), where she was involved in a show garden for the Chelsea Flower Show, which was awarded a "Silver Gilt" medal. From February to May 2005 she worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew in London.

In 1998, 2001 and 2004 she was commissioned with the preparation, implementation and follow-up of the national competition "Our village should be more beautiful - our village has a future" of the German Horticultural Society . From November 2005 to April 2006 she visited gardens in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the USA on a world tour.

Since May 2006 she has been self-employed in the field of landscape architecture with her own company "CCB design Garten + Landschaft".

On April 3, 2010, she launched Hortipedia, a Wikipedia-inspired specialist lexicon for the garden.

Ruffing-Bernadotte is responsible for the conception of the "Paradise in the World Heritage Site Völklinger Hütte ". An industrial park, which has been open to the public since June 20, 2009, was created on the coking plant site of the steelworks, which was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1994 .

On July 7th, 2007 she married Romuald Ruffing from Saarland, a business graduate with his own company, in the castle church of St. Marien on the Mainau. Ruffing came to Mainau in 2004 and was initially at the head of marketing. In 2005, Ruffing organized the engagement in a helicopter over an active volcano in Hawaii. In 2007 he was appointed controller.

Bettina Bernadotte , managing director of the Mainau management company, announced in August 2008 that Ruffing's employment contract as a financial expert on the flower island of Mainau will end on December 31, 2008. Catherina stated “incompatible professional differences” between him and her sister Bettina as the reason for separation. The couple has lived in Homburg since 2014 .

Trivia

Catherina Ruffing-Bernadotte is a board member of the Lennart Bernadotte Foundation , co-editor of the garden and travel magazine Garten Tour by Labhard Medien and a member of the expert jury at the garden and lifestyle fair Giardina in Karlsruhe and Hamburg. Your language skills include spoken and written German, English, Swedish, Spanish and French.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dream wedding on the flower island . In: Südkurier of July 16, 2007
2. ^ Differences between countess and brother-in-law . In: Südkurier of September 11, 2008
3. ↑ Labhard Medien: Garden Tour 2020. Accessed April 25, 2020 .