Horst Baeseler

Horst Baeseler (born March 10, 1930 in Dresden ; † September 20, 2004 in Berlin ) was a German architect . As a student of Reinhold Lingner, he was one of the leading garden and landscape planners in the GDR .

Life

The son of a chemist Horst Baeseler attended the König-Georg-Gymnasium in Dresden until mid-February 1945 . When the school building was destroyed in an air raid, Baeseler's school education ended. After the end of the war by 1948, he trained at the Hauber tree nursery in Dresden- Tolkewitz and in 1949 began to work in a perennial garden. By 1951 he completed an apprenticeship as a gardener with Johann Greiner at the technical school for horticulture in Pillnitz . In 1951 he took part in a machine course for gardeners in Quedlinburg .

From 1951 to 1991, Baeseler was employed by Johann Greiner at the Building Academy of the GDR (DBA), where he worked for Reinhold Lingner until 1955 . In 1951/52 both were involved in the landscape planning for the pioneering republic of Wilhelm Pieck in Altenhof / Werbellinsee and in 1952 in the “Stalinstadt Culture and Sports Park” project in what would later become Eisenhüttenstadt . From 1952 to 1955 Baeseler completed a horticultural engineering degree at the Humboldt University in Berlin and became an engineer for landscape planning .

In 1981 Baeseler was involved in GDR development aid projects in Mozambique . From 1991 to 1996 he worked at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning in Erkner . Baeseler died in Berlin in 2004.

Honors

• 1976 Karl Friedrich Schinkel Medal
• 1977 plaque of the building academy of the GDR

Works

• Horst Baeseler: Campsites - principles and guidelines . Berlin 1976.
• Horst Baeseler and W. Rietdorf: Leisure facilities . Berlin 1979.
• Horst Baeseler (Ed.): Play facilities for children and. Teenagers . Berlin 1979.
• Horst Baeseler: Design of open spaces in living areas . In: Architecture of the GDR, Berlin 1980.
• Horst Baeseler and W. Rietdorf: In flight over the GDR . Leipzig 1983.
• Horst Baeseler: Features and guidelines. A look at the long-term work of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johann Greiner . In: Free space complex, Berlin 2003.

literature

• Volker Wagner:  Horst Baeseler . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• IRS Erkner (Ed.): On the 65th birthday of Horst Baeseler . Berlin 1974.
• German Association of Cities (Ed.): City and Green. For the 100th birthday of Reinhold Lingner. Hanover, Berlin 2003.

Web links

• Literature by and about Horst Baeseler in the catalog of the German National Library