Gert Kragh

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Gert Kragh (* 1911 in Hvidding ; † 1984 ) was a German garden and landscape designer. He was head of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management from 1952–1964.

Life

Kragh was born in 1911 in Hvidding in what is now Denmark. He completed his studies at the Institute for Garden and Landscape Design in Berlin. Heinrich Wiepking-Jürgensmann (1891–1973) had a great influence on him, as did Reinhold Tüxen (1899–1980), with whom he was involved during the semester break. In 1937 Kragh succeeded him as deputy managing director of the Provincial Agency for Nature Conservation in Hanover. His aim was to promote landscape maintenance and landscaping in the province of Hanover and to implement these concepts in the work of the provincial office. The legal, administrative and financial possibilities should be created for this. During the National Socialist autobahn construction, Kragh worked for Tüxen as a plant sociologist. In 1939 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht .

In 1945 he became managing director of the Provincial Agency for Nature Conservation in Hanover. In the same year he took over the office of the district commissioner for nature conservation in Hanover, and in 1947 he became the state commissioner for nature conservation in Lower Saxony. From 1954 he headed the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management. Conceptually, Kragh saw himself in the tradition of Hans Schwenkel (1886–1957), who during the National Socialist era saw the maintenance of the land and landscape planning overriding nature conservation and wanted to integrate it into it. "The tasks of landscape design are not only more extensive than those of nature conservation, but they also require an even higher degree of experience, empathy and responsibility from the contracted specialist." Landscape plans too. This approach led to much opposition on the part of volunteer conservationists.

After the merger of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Management to form the Federal Agency for Vegetation Science, Nature Conservation and Landscape Management, he gave up the office of director in 1962 and devoted himself to setting up the department for landscape management in the Rhineland Regional Council.

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  1. ↑ a b c H. Rettich: Short biographies of important personalities in the official nature conservation of Lower Saxony. In: Information service for nature conservation in Lower Saxony. Vol. 19 (1999), H. 3 Suppl. S. 7/8
  2. ↑ a b c d H. W. Frohn: Gert Kragh. In: HW Frohn: Nature protection makes the state. State makes nature protection. From the State Agency for the Preservation of Natural Monuments in Prussia to the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation 1906-2006. An institutional history. In: HW Frohn, F. Schmoll (arr.): Nature and State. State nature protection in Germany 1906-2006. (Conservation and biological diversity H. 35). Bonn-Bad Godesberg 2006. p. 229. ISBN 978-3-7843-3935-1
  3. ↑ R. Tüxen: From the office for theoretical and applied plant sociology of the veterinary surgeon. University of Hanover. An activity report by Reinhold Tüxen. (Special print from the 92nd and 93rd annual reports of the Natural History Society in Hanover). Hanover 1942. p. 76
  4. ↑ G. Kragh: Nature protection and landscape planning. In: German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin. Meeting reports vol. V. (1956) issue 4. pp. 24, 36
  5. ^ A b G. Kragh: Nature protection and landscape planning. In: German Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Berlin. Meeting reports Vol. V. (1956) Issue 4.P. 26
personal data
SURNAME Kragh, Gert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden and landscape designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hvidding
DATE OF DEATH 1984