Otto Schulze (landscape architect)

Otto Schulze (born April 15, 1869 in Kietz near Rhinow, West Havelland, † December 24, 1930 in Stettin ) was a German garden architect and city garden director of Stettin.

Life

Otto Schulze was born in 1869 as the son of the cosset Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Schulze and his wife Karoline, nee. Fielitz was born. From 1884 he attended high school in Stendal and then switched to high school in Blankenburg, from which he left in 1888. In the same year Schulze began an apprenticeship at the commercial gardening company Schröter in Salzwedel , 1890-1892 he attended the renowned Royal Gardening College in Wildpark near Potsdam . His teacher Fritz Encke is said to have placed the best of the year in Hanover for Julius Trip , where Schulze was initially employed as a municipal gardener and from 1896 as the municipal head gardener. As part of his work there, Schulze was involved in the important garden art planning trips, including the expansion of the cemetery in Stöcken and the redesign of the Vorderen Eilenriede into a city forest. In 1896 Schulze got engaged to Martha Hartmann (1874–1937), and in 1897 they married. The three sons Walter Schulze (* 1898), Günther Schulze-Fielitz (1899–1972) and Wolfram Schulze-Fielitz (* 1903) were born as children. In 1902 Otto Schulze was appointed head of the municipal garden administration in Stettin , and in 1911 he was appointed city garden director. In this role he redesigned the Quistorpaue and laid out the horticultural facilities on the hook terrace and the facilities on the Bredower Bach. Otto Schulze died in Stettin on Christmas Eve 1930.

Fonts

• Scenic cemeteries. In: Die Gartenkunst , 9th year 1907, p. 31 f.

literature

• Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Green biographies. Berlin 1997, p. 356.

swell

• Lower Saxony Main State Archives Pattensen, Personal File P-5457