Karl Heinrich Meyer (landscape architect)

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Karl Meyer (also: Karl-Heinrich Meyer and Karl Heinrich Meyer ; born November 28, 1903 in Mannheim ; † August 25, 1988 in Brelingen ) was a German garden and landscape architect , university professor and director of the Herrenhausen Gardens .

Life

Still in the German Empire , born Karl Meyer went to his first training first on years of travel and attended from 1921 to 1924 only Naples and there in particular the Botanical Garden, then north-east and central Africa.

In the years from 1924 to 1928 Meyer completed an apprenticeship as a gardener and attended the higher gardening school there in Proskau . After spending a short time in Greenland and Sweden in 1928, he worked in the municipal tree nursery and gardening in Hanover from the same year until 1930 .

From 1930 to 1932 Meyer worked at the Horticultural Teaching and Research Institute in Berlin-Dahlem (LuFA) , and in 1932 as a certified horticultural inspector .

In 1933 Meyer joined the Municipal Garden Authority in Hanover and from the same year taught as a vocational school teacher in the city. In addition, he was active in the planting of the garden show " Jadega " and the area of ​​the newly created Maschsee . From 1936 Karl Meyer initially managed the Berggarten in Herrenhausen and has since then restored the neglected Herrenhausen Gardens.

Immediately after the end of the Second World War , in which the Herrenhausen Gardens were devastated by 2,000 aerial bombs during the air raids on Hanover and the greenhouses were also destroyed, Meyer initially also managed the Georgengarten , the Great Garden and finally also the ones under the British military government from 1945 other of the Herrenhausen Gardens . In the following period he created - according to experts - the "artistically most perfect botanical garden in Europe" as well as the orchid collection with around 2000 species, including the Asian lady's slipper named after him, which is listed in the London orchid register under the name "Prof. Meyer, Herrenhausen ”is recorded.

From 1949 onwards, Meyer held numerous lectures on open-air horticulture and horticultural history at the Technical University of Hanover (TU) for a good two decades until 1970 , and from 1959 as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Horticulture at the Technical University of Hanover. During this period, from 1956, he was in charge of the restoration of the Herrenhausen Gardens, in particular the reconstruction of the Great Garden based on Baroque models. At the same time, he published the magazine Deutscher Garten from 1956 to 1960 .

In 1968 Meyer went into retirement. In the following years he was responsible for the restoration of the baroque gardens of Schloss Brühl from 1969 to 1978 and was also entrusted with tasks in Schloss Charlottenburg and Kalkum . He also worked as a specialist in perennial plants , as an appraiser for historical gardens and as a planner for garden shows. In addition, he was a member of the " Wandervogel ".

Further honors

  • In 1974 Karl Heinrich Meyer was awarded the Hanover city badge.
  • Record of the name of the Asian lady's slipper under the name "Prof. Meyer, Herrenhausen ”in the orchid register in London.

Fonts (selection)

  • Perennials in the shade , Hanover: Schaper, 1957
  • Companions of the garden year. A book for friends of the garden about hardy bulbs and tuberous plants (= Parey's books for friends of the garden ), with 100 illustrations [by Ernst Bartens u. a.], Hamburg; Berlin: Parey, 1960
  • Karl H. Meyer: Royal Gardens. Three Hundred Years of Herrenhausen , Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag Schmidt-Küster, 1966
  • Telling plants from home , with 57 photos by Hans Lasswitz, Hanover: Madsack, 1969
  • Garden flowers , a pocket guide, Hanover: Fackelträger-Verlag Schmidt-Küster, 1969, ISBN 978-3-7716-1704-2 and ISBN 3-7716-1704-9
  • Orchids in words and pictures , with photos by Kurt Beyer, Herrsching: Pawlak, 1974

literature

  • From the Herrenhausen Gardens , year 2004, issue 3, pp. 1–8
  • Ellen Brandenburger: On the history and theory of garden monument preservation. Comparative analyzes using examples in Bamberg, Brühl and Großsedlitz (= writings from the Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg , Vol. 6), at the same time dissertation 2009 at the University of Bamberg, Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86309-033-3 , p. 322
  • Hans-Georg Preißel : "I am a prisoner of the garden." On the 101st birthday of Professor Karl-Heinrich Meyer , in: From the Herrenhausen Gardens: Information for Friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens eV Ed .: Friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens eV in cooperation with of the Herrenhausen Gardens Department of the City of Hanover's Green Space Office, Hanover, 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m o. V .: Meyer, Karl in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of January 12, 2016, last accessed on May 19, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Helmut Knocke : Meyer, (7) Karl Heinrich , in Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginnings to the present , Hannover: Schlütersche, 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 253
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g Rudolf Klein : Meyer, KH , in ders .: Niedersachsenlexikon. Everything worth knowing about the state of Lower Saxony , Frankfurt am Main: Umschau Verlag, 1969, p. 252
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Karl Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Meyer, Karl; Meyer, Karl-Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener, horticultural inspector, vocational school teacher, horticultural director, university professor, gardening and landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 1988
Place of death Bring