Johann Berg (garden architect)

Johann Berg or Johann Caspar H. Berg (born March 1, 1902 in Aabenraa , † November 7, 1967 in Flensburg ) was a German garden architect .

biography

Berg was the son of a captain. In 1925, after graduating from high school, he trained as a gardener. He then studied landscape architecture in Berlin-Dahlem . From 1928 he worked there as an assistant in the department of teaching and research facilities at the university. Since 1931 he worked as a garden architect for various planning offices. At the end of the 1930s he came to Bremen . He planned the expansion of the 46 hectare Rhododendron Park Bremen for the cemetery and horticultural department Bremen (today Stadtgrün Bremen) . For many years he was on the board of the German Rhododendron Society, founded in 1935 . After the Second World War he was briefly head of the cemetery and horticulture office in Bremen in 1946/1947 ; He was followed in 1947 by Horticultural Director Erich Ahlers in this office. Berg and Ahlers then continued the expansion of the rhododendron park. In 1967 he retired.

Honors

• The Johann-Caspar-Berg-Weg in Bremen- Horn-Lehe at the Rhododendron Park was named after him in 1999.

Works

• with Gerd Krüßmann: Freiland-Rhododendron , standard work, Ulmer, 1951.
• Signpost through the Rhododendron Park , Bremen 1964.
• Rhododendron and evergreen deciduous trees

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . Volume: supplementary volume . A – Z. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86108-986-5 .