Hermann Kube

Hermann Kube (born June 7, 1866 in Posen , † October 15, 1944 in Einbeck ) was a German garden artist and city garden director. During his main creative period in Hanover , he designed numerous green spaces and public spaces .

Life

The early years

Born in Poznan, Hermann Kube attended the Royal Pomological Institute in Proskau in Silesia from 1883 to 1886 . Trained as a pomologist , Kube first worked in various nurseries in Berlin , Dresden and Posen before going on a study trip to southern and western Germany from 1890 to 1891 .

From 1891, Kube worked as a "garden engineer" for seven years until 1898 in the Royal Gardens of Sanssouci . Also in 1898 he took over the management of the newly established, independent municipal garden administration in his native Poznan for four years until 1912.

Garden director from Hanover 1913 to 1934

Hermann Kube had the longest creative period in one place in Hanover ; here he worked - in the successor of Heinrich Zeininger - from 1913 to 1934 as municipal gardening director. The first task given him was

• 1913 to 1914 the "Stadthallengarten" , which he later,
  • 1933 expanded to the “Annual Show of German Garden Culture” (“ Jadega ”).

From 1913 to 1918 Hermman Kube added a space-saving grid to the oldest system in the Stöcken city cemetery (in departments 49 to 64 B).

After the First World War , the focus of Kube's work was in particular on usable green spaces in the old parts of the city, especially in the design of sports fields and children's playgrounds or the Lister bath.

In 1919, in the still young Weimar Republic , Kube designed the Seelhorst city cemetery in an "architectural garden style" in collaboration with the city planning officer Paul Wolf .

Later, Hermann Kube also created individual “departments of the best cemetery culture ” at the Engesohde city cemetery .

In the industrial city of Linden , which was incorporated in 1920 , the Lindener Volkspark was built according to plans by Kube.

Kube, together with the Heimatbund Niedersachsen , was intensely committed to entertainment and

• "Saving the Herrenhausen Gardens ",
  • 1921 especially for the Georgengarten and the Welfengarten .

After the departure of city planning officer Paul Wolf in 1922, Karl Elkart , who had been elected senator, took over his position, which had been vacant for many years, on September 8, 1925 . Hermann Kube then redesigned the residential areas redesigned under Elkart around the squares previously created in public space, for example

• the De-Haen-Platz in the district List ,

and in the Hanover-Südstadt district

• • the Geibelplatz and the
  • the Karl-Peters-Platz (1991 as well as the Karl-Peters-Straße renamed Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz ).

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933 Hermann Kube worked for a short time in Hanover before the 1934 retirement went and after Berlin drew. After his death in Einbeck in 1944, in the middle of the Second World War , Hermann Kube was buried in the Engesohde town cemetery, where he himself had designed exemplary departments during his lifetime.

Honors

Hermann Kube was posthumously honored by the Kubeweg in 1946 under the British military government ; The name was given in the Vorderen Eilenriede in the Zoo district for a forest path that led from the then New House on Emmichplatz to Bernadotte-Allee .

Works (incomplete)

• The city in the country , in Otto Hugo (Red): New Hanover. Festschrift of the Hannoversche Couriers for the consecration of the town hall in 1913 , Hannover: Gebrüder Jänecke, 1913, pp. 38–42
• Hermann Kube: The city's horticultural facilities and cemeteries. In: Fritz Stadelmann: Hanover. The big city in the country , in agreement with the Magistrate of the City of Hanover, ed. from the Verkehrs-Verein Hannover e. V., edited by Fritz Stadelmann, book decorations based on designs by Hans-Günther Reinstein, art supplement based on original drawings by Georg Tronnier and H. Flecke, Hanover: Verkehrs-Verein Hannover e. V .; Hanover: Schmorl & von Seefeld successors, 1927, pp. 81–93
• Hermann Kube: The historic gardens in Herrenhausen-Hannover. In: Deutsche Kunst und Denkmäler , 3rd Jhrg., 1936, pp. 13–22

literature

• Michael Rohde: Hermann Kube (1866–1944). In: Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover , with contributions by Bernd Adam, Wolfgang Volz, Urs Boeck, Gotthard Frühsorge, Cord Meckseper, Heike Palm, Ulrike and Hans-Georg Preißel, Hubert Rettich, Michael Rohde and Alheidis von Rohr, Göttingen: Wallstein-Verlag, approx. 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 and ISBN 3-8353-0053-9 , p. 277 and others; partly online via Google books
• Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: From city gardening to green space office. 100 years of municipal open space management and garden culture in Hanover (1890 - 1990) , 1st edition, Berlin; Hanover: Patzer, 1990, ISBN 3-87617-079-6 , p. 32 and so on.
• Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Green biographies. Biographical handbook on landscape architecture of the 20th century in Germany , Berlin; Hanover: Patzer, 1997, ISBN 3-87617-089-3 , pp. 206f.
• Rainer Schomann (Ed.), Urs Boeck : Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony , catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony State Parliament, on the occasion of the state exhibition "Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony". Hanover, 2000, pp. 101f.
• Helmut Zimmermann : The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , passim
• Hugo Thielen , Helmut Knocke : Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , pp. 114, 202, 204
• Helmut Knocke: KUBE, Hermann. In: Dirk Böttcher, Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , pp. 214f.
• Helmut Knocke: Kube, Hermann. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 373.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r} Helmut Knocke: Kube, Hermann (see literature)
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Michael Rohde: Hermann Kube (1866–1944) (see literature)
3. ↑ Dieter Brosius : 1913. In: Hannover Chronik , p. 149; online through google books
4. ↑ Note: According to the Hanover Art and Culture Lexicon (see literature), the redesign was carried out according to plans by Peter Hübotter
5. ↑ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Stöckener Strasse 66-68. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon (see literature), p. 201f.
6. ↑ Helmut Knocke: ELKART, Karl. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 107f .; online through google books
7. ↑ Note: The formulation in the article Kube, Hermann in the Stadtlexikon is ambiguous. According to Helmut Zimmermann , individual places were created long before Elkart was involved in Hanover; compare the individual street and square names in: Helmut Zimmermann: The street names ... (see literature)
8. ^ Helmut Zimmermann: Bertha-von-Suttner-Platz. In: The street names ... (see literature)
9. ^ Klaus Mlynek: Military Government (en) - British M. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , S. 443f.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Zimmermann: Kubeweg. In: The street names ... (see literature), p. 151
11. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Ludwig Hoerner : New house. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 465f.