Günther Schulze (landscape architect)

Green areas at the Platz der Republik in Hamburg-Altona

Meadow area with a row of plane trees and office buildings in the background
in Hamburg's City-Nord-Park

“Brunnengarten” in Cologne's Rheinpark , designed by Günther Schulze and Joachim Winkler for the 1957 Federal Garden Show

Günther Schulze (born March 17, 1927 in Pematang Siantar , Indonesia ; † May 17, 1994 in Hamburg ) was a German landscape and garden architect . His most famous plans include the City-Nord-Park , which is now a listed building, and the Platz der Republik in Hamburg.

Career

Günther Schulze was born in 1927 in the independent city of Pematang Siantar in the province of North Sumatra on the Indonesian island of Sumatra . Indonesia was a Dutch colony at the time . From 1933 to 1937 he attended a German boarding school in Kabanjahe on Sumatra. At the age of ten his family moved to the German Reich in 1937 and settled there in Hamburg-Nienstedten . From 1937 to 1944 he attended high school for boys - the Schleeschule - in Altona , where he graduated from high school in autumn 1944 .

After graduating from school, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht and served until 1945. At the end of the war, he deserted and fled west. On his escape he was taken prisoner of war and spent six weeks in the Munster prisoner-of-war camp in Lüneburg Heath , the largest release camp for prisoner-of-war soldiers of the Wehrmacht. He was released from captivity in the summer of 1945 to work as a harvest helper in Westphalia . In August he returned to Hamburg.

Rose "garden architect Günther Schulze" ("The Pilgrim")

In 1945 Schulze began an apprenticeship as a gardener's assistant at the Lorenz von Ehren tree nursery in Klein Flottbek . On September 10, 1947, he passed his horticultural assistant examination. From 1947 to 1948 he worked as an assistant in the garden architecture office of Walter Raubaum (1905–1954). In 1948 he began to study horticultural technology at the State Horticultural Training and Research Institute in Weihenstephan . On August 3, 1950, he completed his studies as a state-certified horticultural technician specializing in garden and landscape planning. In the same year he started his own business as a garden architect in Hamburg-Nienstedten. He took part in numerous competitions and made a name for himself. As an established freelance landscape architect in Hamburg, he was the regional association chairman of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL) from 1964 to 1967 . During this time, the entire public green space planning in Hamburg was entrusted to him. From 1974 to 1982 he was a partner at Schulze Hass Kummer Free Garden and Landscape Architects and from 1982 to 1989 at Schulze Kummer Free Garden and Landscape Architects. Then from 1989 until his death in 1994 he ran the office of Günther Schulze Freier garden and landscape architect .

Awards / competitions won (selection)

• 1957: 1st prize for the design of the Platz der Republik in Altona
• 1957: 1st prize for the design of the Wandsbek bus station (together with Heinz Graaf)
• 1960: 1st prize for the design of the Kappeln-Kopperby housing estate (together with Heinz Graaf)
• 1961: City-Nord-Park in Hamburg-Winterhude
• 1961: Green planning for Berlin-Tiergarten
• 1963: International horticultural exhibition (together with Heinrich Raderscha)

Client (selection)

Hospitals Ev. Amalie Sieveking Hospital, Hamburg St. Josefs Hospital Wiesbaden Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg

Companies Hamburg-Mannheimner Edeka BP Esso Texaco

Housing company GAGFAH Kaifu Nordland eG Fluwog

Private

He married his wife in 1958. The couple had two sons in 1959 and 1968.

Web links

• Hamburg Architecture Archive - Günther Schulze
• 100 years of landscape architecture
• Maintenance and development plan City-Nord-Park, article in the magazine Landschaftsarchitektur heute

Commons : City-Nord-Park  - Collection of images

Commons : Rosa 'The Pilgrim'  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Pütz: The fountain garden in Cologne's Rheinpark , brunnengarten-rheinpark-koeln.de, accessed on July 16, 2016, .pdf.
2. ↑ Annual Issue 2011/2012 , German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture, Landesverband Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein eV, pp. 46, 50 and 67
3. ↑ The central green area and the pedestrian bridges , Monument Preservation Hamburg - City Nord, Issue 19, Christians Druckerei & Verlag, June 2001, p. 7.
4. ↑ Hamburg Architecture Archive - Heinz Graaf
5. ↑ 1963: The future shines ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Stadt + Grün - Das Gartenamt, Patzer Verlag, September 9, 2003, ISSN 0948-9770, p. 12.
6. ↑ Excursion report Hamburg (October 7, 2013– October 11, 2013) , Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture, p. 46.