Gerhard Olschowy

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Gerhard Olschowy (born February 14, 1915 in Gesess , Province of Silesia ; † April 19, 2002 ) was a German landscape planner and nature conservation specialist .

Life

Gerhard Olschowy studied at the University of Berlin and the Technical Universities of Munich and Hanover. On June 1, 1933, he joined the SS. His work in this organization has so far remained unknown. In the meantime, however, he also took up a degree in gardening and landscape design in Berlin, and was particularly influenced by Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann , one of the employees on the criminal General Plan East . After 1945 he continued his studies at the Technical University of Munich, where he also took the subjects of architecture and urban planning. He graduated from the Technical University of Hanover in 1949 with a diploma.

Then Olschowy was a consultant for landscape maintenance and green planning at the Central Association of German Horticulture in Bonn (from 1952), then a consultant for landscape management at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture.

He completed his studies in 1955 with a doctorate on the subject of "About the relationship between land consolidation and land maintenance". First Referee was again Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann and second appraiser Konrad Meyer , the former boss of Henry Wiepking-Jürgen man in the Reich Commissariat for the Preservation of German Nationality of Heinrich Himmler .

In 1964 he was appointed head of the Federal Institute for Vegetation Science, Nature Conservation and Landscape Management in Bad Godesberg. In 1965 he was appointed professor. As director of the Federal Research Institute for Nature Conservation and Landscape Ecology, Olschowy was one of the most important representatives of nature conservation in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1964 and 1978. He is considered to be one of the key pioneers in ecological landscape planning .

Olschowy was one of the signatories of the Mainau Green Charter . Since 1953 he was a member of the Catholic student union AV Hansea (Berlin) Cologne.

Memberships

  • Member of the working group of landscape lawyers
  • Managing member of the German Council for Land Management
  • Member of the Advisory Board for Regional Planning in the Federal Ministry of the Interior
  • Member of the landscape conservation research committee at the Academy for Spatial Research and Regional Planning

Awards

Fonts

  • Gerhard Olschowy (1993): Mining and landscape - recultivation through landscape maintenance and. 215 pp., Paul Parey Hamburg - Berlin.
  • Reinhard Piechocki (2006): State nature conservation - as reflected by its pioneers - XII. Gerhard Olschowy (1915-2002) “Ecology as a benchmark!”. - In: Natur und Landschaft 81, Issue 11. pp. 550–551
  • Gerhard Olschowy (1970): Landscape and Technology - Land Care in the Industrial Society, 328 S., Patzer Verlag Hannover - Berlin - Sarstedt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ R. Piechocki (2006): The state nature protection - in the mirror of their trailblazers - XII. Gerhard Olschowy (1915-2002) "Ecology as a benchmark!". Nature and landscape 81, volume 11, p. 550
  2. ↑ R. Piechocki (2006): The state nature protection - in the mirror of their trailblazers - XII. Gerhard Olschowy (1915-2002) "Ecology as a benchmark!". Nature and landscape 81, volume 11, p. 550
  3. ↑ R. Piechocki (2006): The state nature protection - in the mirror of their trailblazers - XII. Gerhard Olschowy (1915-2002) "Ecology as a benchmark!". Nature and landscape 81, volume 11, p. 550
personal data
SURNAME Olschowy, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape planner and nature conservation specialist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Gesess , Province of Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2002