Karl Plomin

Karl Plomin (born January 1, 1904 in Hamburg-Winterhude ; † January 7, 1986 in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel ) was a German garden architect . He is known for the park “ Planten un Blomen ” in the center of Hamburg.

Life

After completing his training as a gardener at the state trade school in Hamburg, he studied urban planning at the Technical University of Munich . Then he was employed in the municipal garden department in Hamburg. In 1935 he opened his office in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel and designed the “Low German Garden Show” (“Planten un Blomen”) as a garden and landscape planner on the grounds of the former Hamburg zoo and the Dammtor cemeteries . After serving in the German Reich from 1940 to 1944, he was taken prisoner by the British in 1945. After the Second World War, he rebuilt his office. The International Horticultural Exhibition he designed opened in 1953(IGA) 1953 in Hamburg. In 1963 he was entrusted with the overall management of the IGA in 1963. The eldest of his three sons, Peter Plomin, became a partner in the garden architecture office in 1967. As part of the IGA '73, he reworked some parts of the “Planten un Blomen” site. In 1984 he became an honorary member of the Association of German Landscape Architects . Karl Plomin died on January 7, 1986 in Hamburg-Poppenbüttel.

Works (excerpt)

• Low German garden show " Planten un Blomen ", Hamburg, 1935
• Perennial garden of the 1951 Federal Horticultural Show in Hanover
• IGA '53 in Hamburg
• IGA '63 in Hamburg
• IGA '73 in Hamburg, revision of some parts of the "Planten un Blomen" site
• Malente Spa Park , 1962

Fonts

• The perfect garden: the art of handling plants, depicted in 23 vegetation pictures , Ulmer-Verlag, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-8001-6070-6 .
• with Karl Heinz Hanisch: Planting and caring for trees and bushes , note, Darmstadt 1965, OCLC 809941700 .

Awards

• Honorary member of the bdla

swell

• Flyer of the Malente spa park , pdf, 960 kB
• Hamburg Architecture Archive of the Hamburg Chamber of Architects on Plomin