Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff

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Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff (born September 12, 1892 in Witten , † March 5, 1983 in Colorado Springs ) was a state-certified horticultural inspector .

Life

Irma's father was Carl Franzen (1861–1947), the owner of the construction company “Lünenbürger und Franzen”, her mother Therese (1862–1923). She had eight siblings. She had two children with Alfred Tibursky (1882–1950): Waltraut (1921–1998) and Hans (* 1925). In 1925 she married the horticultural inspector and horticultural architect August Gustav Karl Ludwig Heinrichsdorff (1898–?). In 1930 the marriage was formally divorced.

In 1910 she received her secondary school leaving certificate. In 1913 she went to the "Elmwood School of Gardening" (Cosham / Portsmouth). Because of the outbreak of war, she had to leave England in 1914. In 1915/1916 she was employed by the perennial nursery Goos und Koenemann in Niederwalluf on the Rhine. In addition, she took "fruit tree courses at the teaching and research institute for viticulture, fruit growing and horticulture in Geisenheim". In 1917, she enrolled “as the first female horticultural student at the Horticultural Teaching and Research Institute in Berlin-Dahlem .” In 1919 she successfully passed her examination as a horticultural technician. She then worked for the garden architect Harry Maasz (1880–1946). In 1924 she passed the garden master's examination in the field of landscape gardening at the teaching and research institute for horticulture (LuFA) in Berlin-Dahlem. In 1927/28 she briefly represented Johannes Gabriel in the Dresden garden administration and created “drafts for various parks and other open spaces, etc. a. the Fürstenplatz in Dresden ”. In Lübeck-Klingenberg she founded a bog plant nursery. Financial and family reasons forced her to give up her job. She moved into the Wobick house in Dangast , where from 1930 she set up the “Irmenfried” children's home. After the Second World War, she set up a nursery in order to be able to train her son Gernot, who had returned from captivity, to be a gardener. In 1952 Gernot emigrated to America after completing his studies at a gardening training and research institute. His mother followed him in 1953. The children's home was continued by her daughter Waltraut. From 1954 to 1961, mother and son worked as garden architects for the Langmann landscaping company in Colorado Springs. In 1961 the son went into business for himself and married Ava Molnar. "Until the age of 76, Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff [...] draws the systems that she designed together with her son."

Services

She was the first German graduate in the field of garden architecture. In 1924 she was the first woman to receive the master gardener examination in landscape gardening at the Horticultural Teaching and Research Institute in Berlin-Dahlem.

1919 Second place for the "Unterm Elder Bush" design in the Siedlergarten competition (Germany)

Works

  • 1920s designs for outdoor facilities at civil servants' houses for cast steelworks in Witten
  • 1926 Exhibition projects at the anniversary horticultural exhibition in Dresden
  • approx. 1928 design for Fürstenplatz in Dresden (today: Fetscherplatz )

literature

  • Gert Gröning: From Dangast to Colorado Springs. Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff 1892–1983. Life and work of the first graduate of a garden architecture degree . Munich 2014.
  • Gert Gröning: Inconspicuousness as a role model in garden culture, comments on the life and work of Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff . In: Aesthetics of the inconspicuous, approaches from the perspectives of the arts, philosophy and aesthetic education. Edited by Constanze Rora and Stefan Roszak. Oberhausen 2013, pp. 107–123.
  • Gert Gröning: Whoever has the women has the garden [Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff] . In: Horticulture. The Swiss specialist magazine 132 (2011), No. 20, pp. 26–28.
  • Gert Gröning: Irma Franzen-Heinrichsdorff (1892–1983) . Lecture. November 15, 2010, Leibnizhaus, Holzmarkt 4–6, Hanover. URL: http://www.cgl.uni-hannover.de/imperia/md/content/cgla/veranstaltungen/irma_franzen_heinrichsdorff.pdf (pdf).
  • Hugo Koch: Modern horticulture: a tour of the plan and model show of the anniversary horticultural exhibition in Dresden . In: Die Gartenkunst, 39.5 (1926), pp. 71–78, here: 78.
  • [Carl] Heicke: A settlement garden competition . In: Die Gartenkunst, 32.5 (1919), pp. 55–66: here 60–62.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ on the biography cf. Groening 2013
  2. ↑ Gröning 2013, 110.
  3. ↑ Gröning 2013, 110.
  4. ↑ Gröning 2013, 113.
  5. ↑ See Gröning 2013, 118.
  6. ↑ Gröning 2013, 120.
  7. ↑ Gröning 2013, 113.
  8. ↑ Cf. [Carl] Heicke: A settler garden competition . In: Die Gartenkunst, 32.5 (1919), pp. 55–66: here 60–62. URL: http://gartentexte-digital.ub.tu-berlin.de/archiv/Gartenkunst/Jg.32/Heft_05.pdf , p. 60f.
  9. ↑ See illustration: View over Fürstenplatz: URL: http://www.johannstadtarchiv.de/?/139-0-Fetscherplatz.htm
personal data
SURNAME Franzen-Heinrichsdorff, Irma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Witten
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1983
Place of death Colorado Springs