Gottfried Funeck

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Gottfried Funeck (born January 3, 1933 in Rumburk ; † March 16, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German landscape planner and garden architect and from 1975 to 1990 director of the City Garden Authority in East Berlin . Together with his employees in the Berlin City Administration , he planned numerous large parks and green spaces. In 2017, his work was posthumously honored with the naming of a traffic route in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district .

Life

Gottfried Funeck was born in the Sudetenland in what was then Czechoslovakia . After his family was relocated to the Soviet occupation zone , after finishing school in Freiberg in the early 1950s, he learned the trade of gardener and then worked in Markkleeberg near Leipzig as a gardener's assistant in the newly emerging garden and landscape exhibition of the GDR .

Funeck studied from 1957 to 1960 at the technical college for horticulture in Erfurt . After completing his studies, he worked for the City Garden Authority in East Berlin. He completed a distance learning course in horticulture at the Humboldt University in Berlin and obtained the title of qualified gardener . In 1975 he succeeded Helmut Lichey as head of the municipal garden department. In 1990 he was dismissed by the magistrate because of the "reorganization of previous tasks and responsibilities".

Act

As the city gardening director, Funeck was responsible for the design and maintenance of public green spaces in East Berlin. The City Garden Authority set the standards for the green spaces in the new development areas. It supported voluntary activities by residents, house communities and businesses through maintenance contracts (up to 10,000 in the 1980s). In the so-called “Join in!” Competition for the beautification of cities and communities, numerous such initiatives have been started since the late 1960s. Funeck paid particular attention to the replacement and replanting of trees, of which up to 100,000 were carried out annually in East Berlin in the 1980s.

From 1969 to 1972, Funeck was responsible for the horticultural design of the green spaces at the foot of the Berlin television tower , the terrace in front and the water cascades. He is also considered to be the co-founder of the "Berlin Flower Show", which was held annually from 1976 to 1989 in the exhibition center at the television tower.

In 1977 he started the ideas competition Park an der Spree , which was supposed to create a connection between the green spaces under the television tower and the street Unter den Linden . The park was opened as the Marx-Engels-Forum in 1986 .

Gottfried-Funeck-Weg south of the "Gardens of the World"

On the occasion of Berlin's 750th anniversary in 1987, Funeck designed and managed the design of the areas below the Kienberg in Marzahn. The Berlin Garden Show was created , today's park “Gardens of the World”.

Gottfried Funeck was one of the members of the Friends of the Gardens of the World Association, which was founded in 2009 . Heinrich Niemann , founding chairman of this association and also district councilor of Berlin-Marzahn from 1992 to 2006, praised Funeck's commitment: "He made his knowledge available and thus contributed to the success story of today's gardens of the world".

Honors

Publications

  • with Walter Meißner: front gardens. German Agricultural Publishing House, Berlin 1972.
  • with Walter Meißner: beautiful green spaces in cities and communities. German Agricultural Publishing House, Berlin 1974.
  • with Walter Meißner: Summer flowers in allotment and settlement gardens. Association of allotment gardeners, settlers and small animal breeders, Berlin 1982.
  • with Waltraud Schönholz, Fritz Steinwasser: Park and green areas in Berlin. Berlin Information, Berlin 1984.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Beyer: Memories of one of the fathers of the "Gardens of the World" . In: Gartenfreund . No. 4 , 2018, p. 18–19 ( [1] [PDF; 1.7 MB ; accessed on July 7, 2020]).
  2. ↑ a b c Harald Ritter: District honored a committed garden planner with Gottfried-Funeck-Weg. In: Berliner Woche , January 22, 2018.
  3. ↑ The magistrate is now firing its specialists. In: Berliner Zeitung , July 3, 1990, p. 16.
  4. ↑ 100,000 new trees and 800 robust benches. Stadtgartenamtsdirektor gave an insight into his realm. In: Neues Deutschland , June 12, 1986, p. 8.
  5. ^ Joachim Schulz, Werner Graebner: Berlin. Capital of the DDR. Architecture guide GDR. Verlag für Bauwesen, Berlin 1974, p. 42/43 ( conversion of the television tower ).
  6. ↑ Verena Pfeiffer-Kloss: The power of absence: on the urban development debate about the town square under the Berlin television tower. University Press of the TU Berlin, Berlin 2015, p. 54.
  7. ↑ High awards given. In: Berliner Zeitung , April 26, 1979, p. 8.
personal data
SURNAME Funeck, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German garden architect and head of the East Berlin City Garden Authority
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Rumburk
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 2011
Place of death Berlin