Otto Linne

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Northern part of the Moltkeplatz planned by Otto Linne in the Moltkeviertel in Essen with sculptures under 100-year-old plane trees
Linne plan for the redesign of Hammer Park in Hamburg, 1914.
Grave of Otto Linne, Ohlsdorf cemetery
Otto Linne monument in the Ohlsdorf cemetery

Otto Armand Linne (born December 2, 1869 in Bremen , † June 4, 1937 in Hamburg ) was a German garden and landscape architect . He was gardening director in Erfurt (1899–1908), Essen (1908–1913) and Hamburg (1914–1933) and is considered an important garden reformer of the early 20th century.

Life

The son of a merchant family attended high school in Bremen and then completed an apprenticeship at the Royal Gardens in Dresden and the Royal Gardener Training Institute Wildpark near Potsdam . In 1894 he got his first job in the municipal garden administration of Magdeburg , in 1899 became the first director of the newly created municipal garden administration in Erfurt and in 1908 moved to Essen in the same position. There he designed, for example, Moltkeplatz in the Moltkeviertel as a spacious park with a wide range of uses.

From January 1, 1914, Linne finally worked as gardening director in Hamburg, where he was responsible for numerous redesigns and new installations of urban green spaces. So he first redesigned Hammer Park and other former private gardens (Trauns Park, Hayns Park ) into public parks . The design of the Hamburg city park - designed by the chief building director Fritz Schumacher - was also largely in Linne's hands.

After the death of Wilhelm Cordes in 1919, Linne was also given the management of the main cemetery in Ohlsdorf . The eastern extension of the cemetery ("Linne part") was planned by him from 1919. In doing so, he implemented a reform of the grave design, which, based on the idea of ​​social equality, led to a standardization of the grave sites and at the same time allowed better use of the existing area. This reform worked far beyond the borders of Hamburg.

Because of his political stance (Linne was a member of the right-wing liberal DVP ) and his national reputation as an "advocate for social green" (Kuick-Frenz), Linne was openly hostile to the Nazis and at the end of 1933 retired.

Honors

In 1948 the Linnering in Hamburg's city park was named after him. On September 16, 2007, on the occasion of the 70th year of his death, the Otto Linne memorial was inaugurated at the Ohlsdorf cemetery on the initiative of the Friends of Ohlsdorf Cemetery and presented to the public.

literature

  • Norbert Fischer : Linne, Otto . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 256-257 .
  • Elke von Kuick-Frenz: advocate of the social green. The functional and design development of public green and recreational facilities using the example of Otto Linne's plans. 2 volumes, Hamburg 2000 (also dissertation TU Berlin 1999), ISBN 3-928111-14-0

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