Hans Winter (garden architect)

Hans Winter (born June 21, 1895 in Lüdenscheid ; † December 4, 1969 there ) was a German horticultural inspector and as such a representative of the Green Modernism .

life and work

After graduating from high school, Winter began training as a gardener in Bonn and Lüdenscheid. He interrupted this training in order to volunteer in the First World War. After the war he continued his training at the Horticultural College in Berlin-Dahlem .

In 1920 he was commissioned to design the main cemetery there in Szczecin . After completing this task, he worked in Cologne on the transformation of the fortress into gardens.

On February 15, 1926, Hans Winter took over the post of horticultural inspector in the Hanseatic city of Stralsund . He worked on the planning for the parks on the Wulflamufer and the Sundpromenade . He was also entrusted with the redesign of the Schillanlage . Together with the town planning council , he worked out the General Plan North , which provided for the creation of a green belt in northwest Stralsund.

After long years of thought about creating a large main cemetery on the city limits in Stralsund, Hans Winter was commissioned with the design in 1939. Winter created his last work in Stralsund with the park-like cemetery, later known as the Zentralfriedhof . Since he was called up for military service in World War II in 1940, he was no longer able to supervise the implementation of his plans.

In 1945, Winter was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he returned to Lüdenscheid in 1949. Here he set up his own horticultural business and devoted himself mainly to the design and planting of dams . But also the green areas of the Belgian settlement in Lüdenscheid, the cemeteries of honor in Wiblingwerde , Plettenberg and Schalksmühle , the settlements of the Lippische Heimstätten in Plettenberg, Halver , Werdohl and Schalksmühle as well as green areas for the schools in Mühlenrahmede and the home for the blind in Velbert were planned and implemented by him . He also created many private gardens.

After 1949, Winter got involved in the cultural work of the Pomeranian Landsmannschaft .

On December 4, 1969, Winter died in Lüdenscheid after a serious illness.

Winter had been married to Elisabeth Charlotte Henning from Szczecin since 1923, with whom he had nine children.

literature

• Angela Pfennig: Green Biographies. (Historic gardens and cemeteries of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund; Issue 13). Stralsund 2005.

Web links

• Literature about Hans Winter in the state bibliography MV