Kaspar Klaffke

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Kaspar Klaffke (born May 10, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German gardener, landscape architect , spatial planner and university professor.

Allegorical garden at the St. Petri church in Steinwedel - planned by Gesa Klaffke-Lobsien and Kasper Klaffke

Life

Kaspar Klaffke was born in Berlin-Lichterfelde as the fourth of seven children of the publishing clerk Bernhard Wilhelm Fritz Klaffke and the housewife Anna Therese Helene Käte Klaffke, née Meuschke. Schooled at an elementary school in Leipzig in the middle of World War II , Kaspar Klaffke was taught in 1944 at the elementary school in Kempen in what was then Warthegau . In 1945 and until shortly after the end of the war in 1946, Klaffke attended a school in Berlin-Zehlendorf , before continuing to teach in Braunschweig from 1946 to 1948 . Finally, in 1948 he was able to switch to the ancient language-humanistic Wilhelm-Gymnasium there , where he passed his Abitur in 1957.

From 1957 Kaspar Klaffke completed an apprenticeship as a gardener in the Richard Oberg training nursery in Braunschweig and passed his assistant examination at the Hanover Chamber of Agriculture in 1959 . In the same year he began studying garden and landscape design at the Faculty of Horticulture and Regional Culture at the Technical University of Hanover . There he received - after while studying various activities had exercised in other places - in 1965 for his work country Nursing aspects to the development of the immediate area large-fertilizing the title of Master Gardener awarded.

From 1965 to 1969 Klaffke worked under Professors Wilhelm Wortmann and Clemens Geißler as an employee at the Institute for Urban Development, Housing and State Planning for the Location Research Working Group. During this period he married Gertrud Gesa Hanna Lobsien in 1967 , with whom he later became the father of two sons and the grandfather of four grandchildren.

Finally, on December 5, 1968, Kaspar Klaffke wrote his dissertation under the title School location and school region. Features of attending general schools. Implications for regional school planning . As a result, he was awarded the title of Doctor of Horticultural Science Dr. rer. hoard. awarded.

After receiving his doctorate, Klaffke got a job as a green planner for the city of Braunschweig, from which he took over the management of the city garden and cemetery office in 1976. From 1979 he also took on numerous sideline and honorary positions.

From 1982 until his retirement in 2002, Kaspar Klaffke then worked in Hanover as head of the municipal office for green spaces. In this function, the design of the green areas was able to significantly shape the image of the Lower Saxony state capital not only for the World Exhibition Expo 2000 . Klaffke was committed to the preservation and restoration of the Maschpark , but was also able to use Expo money to set up district parks in Ahlem and Vahrenwald, as well as cemeteries or, for example, the landscaped areas on the Kronsberg . With his wife, with whom he initiated the “Open Gate” campaign around 1990, in which plant lovers present their private gardens to the public, Klaffke also wrote two books on gardens, parks and landscapes in the city and the Hanover region .

Also in 2002 he was awarded the Golden Ginkgo Prize by the German Horticultural Society in 1822 . In the same year, Klaffke took over the office of President of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture (DGGL), an office that he held until 2008.

Fonts (selection)

  • School location and school region. Features of attending general schools. Conclusions for regional school planning (= series of publications by the Location Research Working Group, Technical University of Hanover , Vol. 5), Dissertation 1968 at the Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture of the TU Hanover, Hanover: Jänecke, 1968
  • Allotments. Analysis of the Braunschweig allotment garden system (= Braunschweig. Writings of the city of Braunschweig on municipal planning , issue 12), Braunschweig: Stadt Braunschweig, 1974
  • Kaspar Klaffke, Dietrich Weise: Hermann-Löns-Park Hannover , publisher: Landeshauptstadt Hannover, Der Oberstadtdirektor, Grünflächenamt in cooperation with the Press and Informationamt, Hannover: Grünflächenamt, 1993
  • Kaspar Klaffke, Gesa Klaffke-Lobsien: Hanover - City of Gardens. Gardens of a City , 1st edition, Seelze-Velber: Kallmeyer, 2000, ISBN 978-3-7800-5265-0 and ISBN 3-7800-5265-2 ; contents
  • Swantje Duthweiler, Peter Gauditz: The open gate. Gardens in and around Hanover , edited by Kaspar Klaffke and Peter Hübotter. With English translations of the introductory chapters and English short texts on the gardens, Stuttgart: Ulmer, 2000, ISBN 978-3-8001-6690-9
  • Kaspar Klaffke, Gesa Klaffke-Lobsien, Thomas Langreder: Forays through the garden region of Hanover , Rostock: Hinstorff, 2009, ISBN 978-3-356-01304-7 ; contents
  • Gesa Klaffke-Lobsien, Kaspar Klaffke (text), Jutta Alms (photos): GartenLeben in der Alten Gärtnerei , second edition, Jump: zu Klampen, 2017, ISBN 978-3-86674-549-0 and ISBN 3-86674-549 -4 ; Contents text and table of contents

literature

  • Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn , Ronald Clark (ed.): The garden as a model. Festschrift for Kaspar Klaffke (= Herrenhäuser Schriften , Vol. 5), collection of articles and bibliography, 1st edition, Munich: AVM Edition, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95477-072-4 and ISBN 3-95477-072-5 ; contents
  • “We are pleased about the openness of the Association of Friends.” Visiting Gesa Klaffe-Lobsien and Kaspar Klaffke in the old nursery in Oberricklingen. A conversation about the 80th birthdays of the two . In: From the gardens. Information for friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens e. V. Ed .: Association of Friends of the Herrenhausen Gardens eV - Hanover: Gödecke, 2017

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Kaspar Klaffke: life data , in Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn, Ronald Clark (ed.): The garden as a model. Festschrift for Kaspar Klaffke (= Herrenhäuser Schriften , Vol. 5), collection of articles and bibliography, 1st edition, Munich: AVM Edition, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95477-072-4 and ISBN 3-95477-072-5 , p 395-399; Preview over google books
  2. ↑ a b c o.V. : Klaffke, Kaspar ( Memento of the original from July 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in processing on May 15, 2017, last accessed on October 2, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gwlb.de
  3. ↑ Compare the information from the German National Library
  4. ↑ oV : Prof. Dr. Kaspar Klaffke on gartenpraxis.de [ undated ], last accessed on October 2, 2017
  5. ↑ Juliane Kaune: Green Space Office Hannover / Kaspar Klaffke considers green space to be indispensable / City walk: He has helped shape the city's garden face for two decades: Kaspar Klaffke, long-time head of the Green Space Office and a recognized expert, is now 80 years old on the page of the Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung dated May 9, 2017, updated May 12, 2017, last accessed October 2, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Klaffke, Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape architect, author and editor and head of authorities
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin