Gustav Allinger

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Gustav Allinger (born November 3, 1891 in Lauffen am Neckar , † August 9, 1974 in Bonn ) was a German landscape architect .

Life

Allinger completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in Heilbronn in 1907 and worked from 1909 to 1911 in architecture offices in Heilbronn and Heidelberg . From 1911 to 1913 he was with Fritz Encke in the gardening department in Cologne . After military service he continued his work at Encke until 1920, but moved to the Dortmund gardening office in 1921 and to the garden design department of the Späth company in Berlin in 1921 . From 1928 to 1931 Allinger was the city garden director in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia. In 1932 he became self-employed and founded the Deutsche Park- und Gartengestaltung company with Hermann Rothe.

In 1933 he welcomed the " seizure of power " by the NSDAP and joined the party. He played a major role in bringing the professional associations into line. When the Association of German Garden Architects was dissolved in 1933 and integrated into the Reich Association of German Horticulture , Allinger took over the management of the garden, park and cemetery design specialist group. After the dissolution of the Reich Association at the end of 1933, he became Vice President of the German Society for Garden Culture , in which garden lovers were supposed to gather, but which gained no significance. From July 1934 to 1935 he was President of the German Society for Garden Art , the forced sole agency of garden architects, where he appeared in SA uniform. From 1934 to 1938 he also worked under Alwin Seifert as a landscape lawyer in the planning of the Reichsautobahn .

In 1945 he worked for the horticultural exhibition in Erfurt and in 1946 as a consultant for municipalities and companies in North Rhine-Westphalia. From 1948 to 1954 he was Vice President of the newly founded Association of German Garden Architects .

In 1952 he became professor and director at the Institute for Garden Art and Landscape Design at the Technical University of Berlin , where he remained until his retirement in 1959 and beyond until 1961.

He then moved to Bonn . In 1965 he was still working as a visiting professor in Izmir . His planning legacy is in the architecture museum of the Technical University of Berlin .

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Memorial plaque on the house, Archenholdstrasse 72, in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde

In 1920 he designed the main cemetery in Dortmund , in 1924 an expressionist garden "Auf dem Kristallberg" was created for an exhibition of the Association of German Garden Architects, which is reminiscent of the work of Bruno Taut .

He won the competition for the anniversary horticultural exhibition in Dresden in 1926, and became its artistic director. Here he achieved his greatest successes as a designer. In 1927 he had the same post at the German Horticultural and Silesian Trade Exhibition in Liegnitz (GUGALI). His "Coming Garden", designed for Dresden, became very well known, an ideal design for a modern home garden that was widely discussed in the professional world.

In 1932 Allinger designed the Richard Wagner Grove on both sides of the Elster flood basin and in the vicinity of the Palmengarten in Leipzig . It was intended to hold a monumental memorial for Richard Wagner , who was born in Leipzig . A little later, the National Socialists took on the project and declared it the "Richard Wagner National Monument" project. By the beginning of the war, the elaborate formal structures with terraces, open staircases, pergolas, fountain basins and extensive ornamental shrubs had been completed. With the exception of the ornamental plantings and the eastern part of the monument square, they have largely been preserved to this day. On the other hand, the Wagner monument made by Emil Hipp on Chiemsee was just as rarely put up due to the war, as was the “Fountain of the Rhine Daughters” with its sculptural images. The various reliefs intended for the terrace walls also no longer made it to Leipzig.

In 1933 he headed the German Horticultural Exhibition at the Berlin radio tower and also designed the planting of the summer flower garden there in the following years.

In 1933 he created the outdoor facilities in Otto Bartning's Block 2a in the Haselhorst Reich Research Estate in Berlin-Spandau

From 1936 to 1943, Allinger created the gardens for the Brabag settlements in Magdeburg , Schwarzheide and Zeitz .

From 1955 to 1960 he created the facilities for the University Clinic in Cologne .

estate

Allinger's estate is in the university archive of the TU Berlin .

Fonts (selection)

  • The anniversary horticultural exhibition Dresden 1926: Annual show of German work . Berlin-Westend 1926.
  • "Reorganization of Horticulture". In: Die Gartenkunst 1933, pp. 134–137.
  • "Man and Plant". In: Beauty of Work 1939.
  • "A factory settlement". In: Monthly booklets for architecture and urban development 1941.
  • "The essence of form in garden and landscape design". In: The garden art 1941.
  • The lively green in building designs . Berlin, 1946.
  • The German garden: its essence and its beauty in old and new times . Munich, 1950.
  • “Unity of garden and landscape”. In: Art and the beautiful home 1952.
  • The garden home . Munich 1953.
  • Nice residential gardens in town and country . Munich 1955.
  • The hymn of praise for garden art and horticulture: 150 years of horticultural exhibitions in Germany. With 140 pictures and plans . Berlin, 1963.

literature

  • Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: DGGL, German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Management eV 1887 - 1987. A look back at 100 years of the DGGL . Boskett, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-9801549-0-4 , ( series of DGGL 10).
  • Candice A. Shoemaker (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Gardens. History and Design . Volume 1: A - F . Dearborn, Chicago IL et al. 2001, ISBN 1-579-58173-0 , pp. 29-32 with further sources.

Web links

Commons : Gustav Allinger  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gartenanlage Brabag-Siedlung Schwarzheide Deutsche Fotothek, accessed on July 18, 2019
  2. ↑ Gartenanlage Brabag-Siedlung Zeitz Deutsche Fotothek, accessed on July 18, 2019
  3. ^ Gardens of Brabag-Siedlung Magdeburg Europeana, accessed on July 18, 2019
  4. ↑ https://www.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/menue/tub_medien/newsportal/vermischtes/2012/tui0512_universitaetsarchiv/
personal data
SURNAME Allinger, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauffen am Neckar
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1974
Place of death Bonn