Hermann Göritz
Hermann Göritz (born September 16, 1902 in Crone an der Brahe , district of Bromberg , Province of Posen ; † January 30, 1998 in Potsdam-Bornstedt ) was a gardener and landscape architect .
Life
In the years 1921 to 1923 Göritz completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in order to initially work as an assistant at the Späth tree nursery in Ketzin and at the Karl Foerster perennial nursery in Bornim . From 1924 to 1925 he spent a year traveling in Italy . His studies in the field of crop production at the Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture (LuFA) in Berlin-Dahlem followed until 1927. Until 1929 he worked as a horticultural technician in the L. Späth design office in Berlin. After a brief activity in a perennial nursery in Freudenstadt , Göritz worked from 1929 to 1932 in the design office of the Foerster - Mattern - Hammerbacher working group . Here he was particularly responsible for the development of planting plans.
Göritz was an organized communist as a member of the KPD and the Red Aid at least until the National Socialists came to power .
In 1933 Göritz became the head gardener of the Faber-Castell castle gardening company in Stein near Nuremberg . In the following year he returned to Potsdam and became a state-certified garden inspector and leaseholder of a perennial nursery. In the years 1935 to 1943 he worked as a freelance garden architect and again, but as a freelancer, at the Foerster-Mattern-Hammerbacher working group. Göritz was a landscape lawyer for the Reichsautobahn and in the Todt organization . From 1943 until the end of the war , Göritz did his military service as a driver in the Wehrmacht's research squadron . His unit was engaged in mapping and camouflage tasks.
After the war Göritz headed the Karl Foerster Gartenausführung KG in Bornim until 1948. From 1949 until the end of his professional activity, Göritz worked as a freelancer for public and private clients.
In addition to a large number of house gardens and green spaces in public buildings as well as garden monument preservation work, he was entrusted with basic landscape planning, guidelines and perspective planning. Particularly noteworthy are his designs in the egapark in Erfurt or on the Friendship Island and in the Foerster Garden in Potsdam. His collaboration on the landscape diagnosis of the GDR in 1950/1952 is also one of his best-known works .
From 1953 to 1978 Göritz was also chairman of the district committee on dendrology and garden architecture at the Kulturbund der GDR and headed the dendrological winter conference on the first weekend in March. He was the author of numerous relevant publications.
Appreciation
Occasionally his participation in the landscaping of the Reichsautobahn from 1935 onwards is criticized by some politicians. On the other hand, Göritz was the only garden and landscape architect who managed to work freelance in the GDR . He was a member of many professional bodies and received a large number of awards both in the GDR and after reunification from all-German associations.
The Göritz Garden in Bornstedter Eichenallee, which was created by Göritz and named after him, is a designated garden monument. Furthermore, a street in the garden city on Bornstedter Feld in Potsdam was named after him.
Works (selection)
- Instructions for planting work in agriculture! 1950
- Flowers in the garden , 1951
- Deciduous trees for garden and landscape , 1957
- Perennial plantings in sun and shade ; 1959
- Coniferous trees for gardens and landscapes , 1960
- Flowering perennials, grasses, ferns , 1982
- Deciduous and coniferous trees for gardens and landscapes , 1986
literature
- Katharina Adler: Lebenslandschaft: a tribute to the 90th birthday of Hermann Göritz. 1992.
- Olaf Hiller: Hermann Göritz. A biographical study as a contribution to the specialist history of garden and landscape architecture in the 20th century. Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-7983-1726-7 .
- Antje Dill: The importance of the garden designer Hermann Göritz for the use of plants in the 20th century. Dissertation, Technical University of Berlin , 2014.
Web links
- Hermann Göritz on the website of the Karl Foerster Foundation
- Hermann Göritz. Short biography at the Antiquarian Bookshop Bibliotheca Botanica
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Büstrin: Memory of Hermann Göritz on the 10th anniversary of his death , in PNN from February 6, 2008 (online)
- ↑ H. Loy-Fideli: Hermann Göritz garden monument open tomorrow , in PNN from September 15, 2007 (online)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Göritz, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gardener and landscape architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crone at Brahe , Kreis Bromberg , Posen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1998 |
| Place of death | Bornstedt |