Erwin Laage

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Max Erwin Laage (* 1920 in Hamburg ; † May 13, 1997 in Hanover ) was a German garden architect .

Life

Erwin Laage was born in Hamburg at the beginning of the Weimar Republic in 1920 as the son of the architect Richard Laage (born June 9, 1888 in Hamburg; † July 4, 1978 there) and Valerie Pitzner (born May 3, 1896 in Munich; † April 7, 1976 in Hamburg),

At the time of National Socialism , the young Laage was a member of a team of rowers in Hamburg who had been transferred to the Marine Hitler Youth in the course of the Gleichschaltung . There he made friends with the later Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , who in turn developed another friendship with Laage's father and was introduced to Bauhaus architecture by Fritz Höger and Bernhard Hoetger, for example, and to the writings of the Lichtwark student Fritz Schumacher .

After the Second World War , Laage studied in Hanover at the Technical University there , at whose faculty for horticulture and regional culture he wrote his dissertation on July 17, 1954, on the subject of fundamental questions of soil protection for agricultural areas in hilly terrain with strips of plants, especially for the Orientation of the main protective plantings .

For the Lower Saxony state capital Hanover, for example, Laage redesigned the Trammplatz in front of the New Town Hall as a decorative square in the typical style of post-war modernism in the post-war years - which later presented conservationists, garden architects and town planners with new challenges in terms of adapting the free space to meet the more current needs of urban society.

The redesign of the city ​​park in Hanover when the large water basin had to be renovated in 1963 and 1964 was also a case for monument preservation . In this context, Laage delivered a new design for the part of the park with its two linden tree avenues, which until then had been symmetrically related to the town hall. Instead of the eastern avenue, the generous "fountain garden" was created: the new water basins were now to the side of the former axis of symmetry, their focus was now on the fountain, while the newly designed section of low walls, water troughs and evergreen box trees (Buxus sempervirens), holly ( Ilex aquifolium) and rhododendrons.

In 1964, Laage succeeded Wilhelm Rademacher (1899–1985) as the garden director and head of the Hanover garden and cemetery office .

In 1967, in the news magazine Der Spiegel , Laage explained the measures he had taken against other attempts by private funeral homes to curb the burial decorations in the chapels, which had become overflowing with the affluent citizens of the time.

In the allotment garden Kolonie Tiefenriede in the southern part of Hanover, designed by his predecessor Lendholt and laid out in 1957 , Laage introduced different sizes in 1970, while at the same time arranging the small parcels close to the apartment in groups for different requirements.

As the head of the garden and cemetery office in Hanover at the time, Erwin Laage successfully introduced the green space plan as part of the newly developed instrument for urban planning , the land use plan . In this way, Laage ensured that residents were supplied with green spaces from the outset for future development areas as well .

After Erwin Laage left in 1981, Kaspar Klaffke became his successor in the authority that was then called Green Spaces in 1982.

Works (selection)

Urban spaces

  • Redesign of the Trammplatz in front of the New Town Hall of Hanover
  • 1963–1964: Redesign of the city ​​park of Hanover with the fountain garden
  • 1970: Introduction of the size differentiation of the generally small, urban parcels, initially in the allotment garden colony Tiefenriede in Hanover's Südstadt district

Fonts

  • City squares in Hanover. In: Garten + Landschaft , 1959, Issue 2, pp. 33–38
  • Public green planning in Hanover. In: Garten + Landschaft , 1966, Issue 3, pp. 66–69
  • Sitting in the city. In: Garten + Landschaft , Heft 3, 1966, pp. 74–75
  • Aspects and elements of the design in the public green. Lecture, available on October 9, 1964. In: Green spaces in the urban region. Edited by the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning, Lower Saxony / Bremen Regional Group, Hanover. Essen: Bacht, 1965, pp. 52–65,
  • The green in the big city. In: Das Gartenamt , 1966, Issue 4, pp. 153–158
  • Hanover opens up its riverside. In: Hannover-Hefte from the state capital Lower Saxony , Heft 1 (1967), pp. 22-27
  • Children play in the big city - Hanover experiments. In: Hanover. Hefte aus der Landeshauptstadt , Heft 2 (1967), pp. 20–26
  • About Hanover's green spaces. In: Das Gartenamt , 1978, No. 5, pp. 285–292
  • Erwin Laage: Prof. em. Werner Lendholt. Born Feb. 11, 1912 in Krefeld-Uerdingen, died Aug. 25, 1980 in Hanover at the age of 78 . In: Communications from the German Academy for Urban Development and Regional Planning , Vol. 25 (1981) Vol. 2, pp. 39–40
  • The green in the big city , posthumously in: Green in the city of Hanover. 1890 - 1990 , accompanying publication for the exhibition in the historical museum on the high bank of the Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the green space office of the state capital Hanover, ed. from Heimatbund Niedersachsen eV, Hannover - Heimatland, 1990, ISBN 978-3-9800677-3-7 and ISBN 3-9800677-3-4 , pp. 70–73

literature

  • Kaspar Klaffke: Dr Erwin Laage. Earned for Hanover's gardening qualities, (* 1920) died on May 13, 1997. In: Heimatland . Journal for local history, nature conservation, cultural care , ed. vom Heimatbund Niedersachsen , Issue 5 (1997), p. 160
  • Kaspar Klaffke: Obituary for Dr. Erwin Laage. In: Stadt + Grün . The garden authority. Organ of the permanent conference of the horticultural department heads at the German Association of Cities. Berlin: Patzer, ISSN 0016-4739, ISSN 0948-9770, ZDB-ID 12307130, vol. 46.1997, edition 9, p. 676

Remarks

  1. ↑ In contrast to this, the Stadtlexikon Hannover gives the impression at first glance that Laage has succeeded the Hannover gardening director Werner Lendholt; compare Eva Benz-Rababah : Colony Tiefenriede. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover. From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , pp. 352f .; Preview over google books

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c o.V. : Max Erwin Laage on ancestry.com commercial site [ undated ], last accessed June 20, 2017
  2. ↑ Kaspar Klaffke: Dr Erwin Laage. Earned for Hanover's gardening qualities, (* 1920) died on May 13, 1997. In: Heimatland. Journal for local history, nature conservation, cultural care , ed. vom Heimatbund Niedersachsen, Issue 5 (1997), p. 160
  3. ^ A b Michael Schwelien : Helmut Schmidt - a life for Germany , revised, updated and expanded edition of the first publication in 2003, Hamburg: Edel Books, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8419-0343-3 and ISBN 3-8419-0343-6 , Preview over google books
  4. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  5. ↑ a b Bettina Oppermann (text), Martina Gollenstede (photos): Passing Trammplatz in Hanover in cool serenity - discussion on the gardening and urban planning qualities of post-war modernism , review of the lecture by Professor Erika Schmidt from the Technical University of Dresden and the engineer Thomas Göbel-Groß from the state capital Hanover from September 17, 2013 on the website of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL) from October 2, 2013, last accessed on June 20, 2017
  6. ↑ a b Ronald Clark , Angelika Weißmann, Cornelius Scherzer (text), Klaus-Dieter Bonk, Klaus Helmer, Silke Beck (red.): Stadtpark Hannover , brochure, also as a PDF document from the hannover.de page , ed. from the state capital of Hanover, the Lord Mayor, Green Space Office, in cooperation with the Press and Information Office, Hanover: LHH, 2000, p. 14f.
  7. ↑ a b c Stefan Schostok : Capital word of the Lord Mayor of the State Capital Hanover Stefan Schostok , in Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn , Ronald Clark (Ed.): The garden as a model. Festschrift for Kaspar Klaffke , 1st edition, Munich: Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95477-072-4 and ISBN 3-95477-072-5 , pp. 17-20; here: p. 18; Preview over google books
  8. ↑ Silke Beck, Karin van Schwartzenberg, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (ed.), Jennifer Schneider, Birte Stiers (text): 1890 to 2015: 125 years of municipal green space management and garden culture in Hanover , ed. from the state capital Hanover, Department of Environment and Urban Greenery, in cooperation with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover, Hanover: LHH, 2015, p. 46
  9. ↑ oV : Society / Beerdigen / More beautiful die , in: Der Spiegel , issue 24/1967 from June 5, 1967, p. 77
  10. ↑ a b Eva Benz-Rababah: Colony Tiefenriede. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 352f .; Preview over google books
personal data
SURNAME Laage, Erwin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Laage, Max Erwin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect
DATE OF BIRTH 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1997
Place of death Hanover