Hartmut Olejnik

Hartmut Olejnik (born May 8, 1930 in Haynau , Goldberg district / Silesia) is a German garden architect and former director of the zoo in Stralsund .

After his families had fled from Silesia, Olejnik completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in Glauchau from 1947 to 1949 . He then worked as a trainee in the Hanisch flower making business in Leipzig .

From 1950 on, Olejnik studied at the college for horticulture in Quedlinburg and graduated in 1953 as a horticultural engineer and found a job at the Stralsund Natural History Museum , today's marine museum .

From September 1953 he was employed as a site manager for the green design in residential construction in the building authority.

On January 1, 1954, Olejnik took over the management of the newly created park and green spaces and in 1956 also the management of the Stralsund cemeteries .

Without knowing the original plans and archives of the Stralsund gardens, he nevertheless recorded the original features of the grounds and implemented them during the redesign.

Olejnik was responsible for the redesign of the rose garden in the Johanniskloster Stralsund (1954), the creation of the green areas in the residential area Franconia (1955), the rubble greening in the old town in the 1950s , the redesign of the gardens on the Schützenbastion (1955), the design the Platz des Friedens (1958) and the Brunnenaue (1960–1963). He was also responsible for the significant interventions in a harmonious urban development situation of Ernst-Thälmann-Platz on the Sundpromenade and the cemetery of honor for the soldiers of the Red Army at the Marienkirche .

In 1959, Olejnik began building the pheasantry on the Stralsund Küterbastion. and the zoo in the city forest. From 1971 he worked as director of the zoo. He developed the zoo into one of the people of Stralsund, but also a highly valued facility by international experts.

From 1973 onwards, Olejnik was a member of the Zoo Commission at the Ministry of Culture of the GDR and chairman of the district committee of the Dendrology group at the Kulturbund of the GDR .

In 1995 Hartmut Olejnik was given honorary citizenship of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund in recognition of his services as zoo director and garden architect on the occasion of his retirement .

literature

• Angela Pfennig: Green Biographies. - Historical gardens and cemeteries of the Hanseatic city of Stralsund , issue 13. - Stralsund 2005.

Web links

• Literature about Hartmut Olejnik in the state bibliography MV