Dieter Hennebo

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Dieter Hennebo (born June 15, 1923 in Wittenau , † January 1, 2007 in Hanover ) was a German garden historian who represented the " history of garden art " and the preservation of garden monuments and was a leader in these areas.

Youth and education

Having grown up in Görlitz , Dieter Hennebo first began studying medicine, but soon realized that this was not his dream job. He moved to the nursery his wife's family, put 1948 the gardener exam and began studying garden design and landscape architecture at the East Berlin Humboldt University , who was then only university with this specialty in the DDR . After the diploma he was in 1952 with the theme "On the influence of green areas in cities on the dust content of the air" graduated and received a degree of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (alpha Dr.).

Professional career and work

From 1951 to 1956 he worked as an assistant at the Institute for Garden Art and Regional Culture at the Humboldt University for the garden architect Georg Pniower . Willy Kurth saw him as the gardening director of the State Palaces and Gardens in Potsdam. But then he left the GDR with his family due to increasing political reprisals and went to the Federal Republic of Germany . He began in 1957 as an assistant at the teaching and research institute for horticulture in Geisenheim , in addition he had a teaching position for garden art at the TH Darmstadt. In 1958 he switched to the horticultural school in Essen as director . In 1961 he also got a teaching position at the Technical University of Hanover , where he qualified as a professor in 1962 . In 1965 a professorship for the "history of garden art" was established at the Institute for Green Planning and Garden Architecture in Hanover, which he took over as scientific advisor and professor. In 1978 he became a full professor for the history of open space planning (history of garden art, urban greenery and garden monument preservation). Dieter Hennebo expanded the " orchid subject " into an independent and internationally renowned subject area of ​​the faculty, which, in addition to its lectures and seminars on the history of garden art, also offered events on the preservation of garden monuments. In 1987 Hennebo retired.

From 1965 onwards, Hennebo was the publisher of the specialist journal Das Gartenamt , which was founded in 1951 and published in Hanover, and from 1970 of the history of urban greenery series . He wrote numerous other publications on the history of garden art, on urban greenery, city parks and individual historical gardens, on the preservation of garden monuments (including a handbook that is still considered a standard work in 1985), and on the development of the landscape architecture profession. He created park maintenance works and exhibitions on garden art, spoke at numerous symposia, carried out national and international excursions and was a member of various advisory boards and editorial offices.

Honors

Publications (selection)

A list of publications for the years 1953 to 1992 can be found in the commemorative publication mentioned below for the 70th birthday.

  • Dust filtering through green spaces (= scientific reports. Volume 2 Construction, Issue 19). Berlin 1955.
  • with Robert Zander : Instructions for basic research in green planning and garden art . Berlin 1956.
  • with Lieselotte Vossnack , Heinrich Sievers (ed.): Herrenhausen 1666–1966. European gardens up to the 1700th anniversary exhibition in Hanover, Herrenhausen Orangery, June 19 - August 28, 1966. Hanover 1966.
  • with Alfred Hoffmann: History of German garden art . Hamburg 1962–1965. (Reprint: Königstein 1981):
    • Vol. 1: Gardens of the Middle Ages
    • Vol. 2: The Architectural Garden
    • Vol. 3: The landscape garden
  • Development of urban green from antiquity to the time of absolutism (= history of urban green 1). Hanover 1970; 2nd edition 1979.
  • with Erika Schmidt: Development of urban green in England from the early grasslands to public parks in the 19th century (= history of urban green 3). Hanover 1977.
  • (Ed.): Garden monument maintenance. Basics of the preservation of historical gardens and green spaces . Ulmer, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-8001-5046-8 ; in this
    • Garden monument maintenance in Germany, history - problems - requirements , pp. 11–48.
  • "We need these documents of old gardening art ... even if they do not quite meet our taste." Comments on the development of garden monument preservation in Germany . In: Die Gartenkunst 3, 2, 1991, pp. 287–291.

Festschriften for Dieter Hennebo

  • Faculty of landscape architecture and environmental development at the University of Hanover (ed.): Garden art - urban greenery - garden monument preservation. Lectures for the celebratory colloquium on the occasion of the 65th birthday of Prof. Dr. Dieter Hennebo, organized on June 24-25, 1988 (= contributions to spatial planning. Series of publications by the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Development at the University of Hannover 26). Hanover 1992.
  • Erika Schmidt, Wilfried Hansmann, Jörg Gamer (eds.): Garden, art, history: Festschrift for Dieter Hennebo on his 70th birthday (= Green Series 16). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1994, ISBN 3-88462-107-6 (with list of publications).
  • Michael Rohde, Rainer Schomann (ed.): Historical gardens today. On the 80th birthday of Professor Dr. Dieter Hennebo . Edition Leipzig, Leipzig 2003, ISBN 3-361-00567-1 .

literature

  • Erika Schmidt: laudation for Dieter Hennebo . In: Die Gartenkunst 3, 2, 1991, pp. 284–287.
  • Festschrift for the 175th anniversary of the University of Hanover . Volume 2: Catalogus professorum 1831-2006. Olms, Hildesheim 2006, ISBN 3-487-13115-3 , p. 196.
  • Rainer Schomann: Professor Dr. Dieter Hennebo died. In: Reports on the preservation of monuments in Lower Saxony 27, 2007, 1, pp. 46–47.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Schmidt: Laudation , p. 284.
  2. ^ Held on the occasion of the award of the Friedrich Ludwig von Schell Ring of Honor to Dieter Hennebo by the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts on June 14, 1991 in Munich.
personal data
SURNAME Hennebo, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittenau
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 2007
Place of death Hanover