Klaus Rautmann

Klaus Rautmann (* 1941 in Wiesbaden ) is a German landscape architect . From 1990 to 2005 he was the last head of the Bremen Horticultural Office, from which Stadtgrün Bremen emerged in 1997 .

Career

Rautmann studied land maintenance in Berlin with Hermann Mattern , the most important German landscape architect. From 1976 to 1982 he was an assistant at the Technical University of Hanover , where he also received his doctorate. He then studied garden landscape architecture with the “Perennial Pope” Karl Foerster in Berlin , gained experience, first in a Dutch planning office, then in the Ruhr area as a gardening authority. In 1989 he was a co-author of the Emscher Landscape Park feasibility study in Essen . In 1990 he took over the management of the Bremen Horticultural Office, an office that he held until 2005. In 1997 Stadtgrün Bremen emerged from this, employing 470 people.

Rautmann is a member of the board of the regional association Bremen / Lower Saxony - North in the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture and its 1st chairman.

Publications

• Freedom requirements for professionals , dissertation, Hanover 1982.
• with Uta Müller-Glaßl: The Bremen ramparts. On the permanence of a concept , in: Classicism in Bremen. Forms of bourgeois culture (= Yearbook of Wittheit zu Bremen, 33), Bremen 1994, pp. 73–84.
• New organizational structures for the green space offices. Stadtgrün Bremen as a business enterprise , in: Stadt + Grün , No. 1 (1997), p. 24ff.
• In the beginning there was the house garden , in: Stadt + Grün. Das Gartenamt , Volume 51 (2002), pp. 51-54.
• Development and appreciation of the green in Bremen , in: Stadt + Grün. Das Gartenamt , Volume 51 (2002), pp. 7-9.
• Honor Dr. Lothar , German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture , 2014.
• Erich Ahlers (1909-2004) - Berndt Andreas (* 1924). Horticultural Directors in Bremen , in: Stadt + Grün , Volume 63 (2014).
• Scientific enclave and place of exuberant sensual perception: the Rhododendron Park , Bremen 2015, pp. 13–18.
• with Matthias Riedel: Rhododendron, Azaleas & Hydrangeas: Memories of Dr. Lothar , Bremen 2015.
• Diverse urban greenery in Bremen. 33 years of dedicated work of the horticultural director Berndt Andreas (1924–2016) for the citizens of Bremen , German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture, 2016.
• Former head of environmental operations Bremen Dr. Klaus Rautmann pleads for the preservation of the valuable stock of plane trees on Neustädter Deich , website of the citizens' initiative Platanen am Deich, 2020.

literature

• Ulrike Troue: The bed godfather , in: Weserkurier , April 15, 2019.

Remarks

1. ↑ Martina Rudloff: Yearbook of Wittheit zu Bremen , Heuschild, 1993, p. 263.
2. ↑ Kerstin and Johannes Schmidt (eds.): Designing gardens with imagination. The best ideas of leading garden designers , Callwey, Munich 1999, p. 41.
3. ↑ Landscape architecture 27 (1997), p. 6.
4. ↑ Annual report 2012 , German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture, Bremen 2013, p. 2.