Otto Rindt

Otto Rindt (born December 16, 1906 in Aabenraa in North Schleswig , † January 3, 1994 ) was a landscape architect . He is considered the spiritual father of the Lusatian Lake District .

Act

The landscape designer Rindt played a major role in the recultivation and design of the post-mining landscape in the Lusatian district between 1958 and the 1990s . Several former lignite opencast mines were flooded, which were connected to a chain of lakes starting from Senftenberg . Since the 1960s he has been working on the vision of a chain of lakes from Senftenberger See over Geierswalder , Partwitzer , Sedlitzer and Großräschener See , in the area of ​​former and still active opencast mines. This far-sighted approach is now being supplemented by the Bluno-Spreetal, Burghammer and Scheibe opencast mining areas.

The landscape of the Lusatian chain of lakes , emerging over 5,000 square kilometers, will encompass around 12,200 hectares of new water and 42,200 hectares of new mainland.

Before these tasks, Rindt, who was also a member of the NSDAP, worked in the 1930s and 1940s as a landscape architect (also known as landscape lawyer) in the construction of the Autobahn under Fritz Todt . Since 1949 Otto Rindt coordinated, partly in cooperation with the research project Pniowers , land protection plantings on a larger scale in the Magdeburg Börde and in the Vorharz area . The special landscape design department in the state government of Saxony-Anhalt , headed by him, was one of the first state institutions to plan transnationally.

The use of ice-age boulders is characteristic of Rindt's landscape design .

A street is named after him in the Buchwalde district of Senftenberg . A school in Senftenberg is called Dr. Otto Rindt Oberschule .

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  Grossräschener See with pier

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  Senftenberger See

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  Memorial plaque in honor of Otto Rindt on Lake Senftenberg

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  Urban redevelopment at the lake, Senftenberg

literature

• Förderverein Niederlausitzer Kulturlandschaft eV (Ed.): Otto Rindt. Six decades of work for the landscape . Cottbus 1993.
• Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (eds.): Green biographies. Biographical handbook on landscape architecture of the 20th century in Germany (keyword: Otto Rindt ). Berlin and Hanover 1997, pp. 314-315.
• Wolfgang Jowsig: MARGA The first German garden city , Förderverein Kulturlandschaft Niederlausitz eV, 2nd edition, Cottbus 1999, ISBN 3-00-004020-X .
• Harry Waibel : Servant of many masters. Former Nazi functionaries in the Soviet Zone / GDR. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2011, ISBN 978-3-631-63542-1 .
• Helmut Müller-Enbergs :  Rindt, Otto . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Axel Zutz: Otto Rindt . In: Holger Barth, Thomas Topfstedt u. a .: From building artist to complex designer. Architects in the GDR. Documentation of an IRS collection of biographical data , edited by Dietrich Fürst u. a., IRS / Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner 2000 (= REGIO doc. Document series of the IRS ; 3), pp. 186–187, ISBN 3-934669-00-X .

Web links

Commons : Otto Rindt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gert Gröning and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn. Conservation and Democracy !? Meidenbauer. 2006. p. 95.
2. ↑ otto-rindt-os.senftenberg.de: About Dr. Otto Rindt - The life and work of Dr. Otto Rindt. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 19, 2014 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.