Philipp Siesmayer

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Philipp Siesmayer (born October 24, 1862 in Frankfurt-Bockenheim ; † May 2, 1935 ) was a German gardener , commercial gardener and garden architect . He was the head of the Siesmayer brothers company , which his father Heinrich Siesmayer had founded in 1842.

Life

Philipp Siesmayer was the sixth of nine children of the Royal Prussian Horticultural Director Heinrich Siesmayer (1817–1900) and his wife Elise Siesmayer, nee. Klees (1837-1872).

He spent his apprenticeship in his father's company, Gebrüder Siesmayer . In the years from 1881 to 1883 he spent his training time in the gardening institute in Wildpark near Potsdam , at that time the most famous teaching institution for aspiring gardeners in Germany.

After completing his training, Philipp Siesmayer returned to Frankfurt and was employed in the family business from then on .

From 1890 he was a partner in the company and from 1892 specialist manager . Parks and gardens that were created by the Siesmayer brothers from 1890 onwards can be assigned to Philipp Siesmayer, as his father was probably no longer able to manage his company at that time. After the death of his father, Philipp Siesmayer initially managed the company alone and from 1901 together with his brothers Ferdinand Siesmayer (1868–1944) and Josef Siesmayer. A division of tasks was planned, i. H. Philipp should take over the creative part, Ferdinand the commercial and Josef should lead the plant cultivation; however, he left the company in 1902. In 1913, on behalf of the city of Bad Homburg, Siesmayer redesigned the Audenwiesen bordering the spa gardens into a park that was given the name "Jubilee Park" due to the 25th anniversary of the German Emperor's reign.

Title page of the Siesmayer catalog from 1885

In its heyday, the Siesmayer brothers employed up to 600 people. Due to his success, Philipp Siesmayer was appointed Royal Prussian Horticultural Director and Grand Ducal Hessian Court Garden Engineer. However, the global economic crisis quickly led his company to bankruptcy; it had to file for bankruptcy in 1932 . Philipp Siesmayer was able to work as a professional advisor in Bad Nauheim until his death in 1935 and to plan the spa gardens in Bad Vilbel .

Philipp Siesmayer created numerous smaller and larger parks. In addition, the company maintained the spa parks of Bad Nauheim (1857–1909), Wiesbaden , Bad Homburg (1881–1930), Bad Ems (1888–1922), the entire green areas of Koblenz , many large and approx. 200 smaller private parks in and around Frankfurt am Main . A list of the plants by Philipp Siesmayer contains 174 gardens and parks, some of which are in Romania, Poland, Austria and Belgium. The following comment was added to this list: "Philipp Siesmayer, in whose design office, in addition to the larger systems listed here, thousands of smaller systems and plans were processed, was by far the most busy and successful garden architect in Germany."

family

Philipp Siesmayer was with Emma Mathilde Siesmayer, geb. Plow, married. His son, the garden architect Heinrich Siesmayer (1895–1965) was married to Edith Dannhof (1906–2001), a daughter of the Frankfurt city director Adolf Dannhof and a descendant of Carl August Müller . The couple had no children.

Awards

  • 1898: Appointment as Grand Ducal Hessian Court Garden Engineer
  • 1899: Russian Order of Saint Stanislaus III. class
  • 1902: Appointment as Royal Prussian Horticultural Director
  • 1903: Knight's Cross II. Class of the Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit
  • 1906: Order of the Crown, IV class
  • 1907: Knight's Cross 2nd class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
  • 1907: Honorary membership in the beautification association of Niederselters, as thanks for the free support of the green space design
  • 1908: Dedication of the yellow rose to "Frau Philipp Siesmayer"
  • 1914: Order of the Red Eagle, IVth class, for services to the establishment of the Jubilee Park in Bad Homburg and the decades of maintenance of the spa facilities there

literature

  • Herbert J. Lohrum: SIESMAYER / SUESSMEYER. From the brittle counter at the Brunnen zu Niederselters to the art gardeners on the Rhine and Main. The 200-year history of an art gardener family with special consideration of professional and regional historical aspects. 2015.
  • Herbert J. Lohrum: 90 years of the Siesmayer brothers. A company history to commemorate the 200th birthday of the horticultural artist Heinrich Siesmayer. 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nassauische Annalen , Volume 94, Verlag des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung, 1983
  2. ^ Die Gartenkunst, Volume 46, German Society for Garden Art, Verlag Gebrüder Borntraeger, 1933 - Google books
  3. ^ Rosen-Zeitung, Verein Deutscher Rosenfreunde (ed.), 1901 - Google books
  4. ^ Rosen-Zeitung, Verein Deutscher Rosenfreunde (ed.), 1901 - Google books
  5. ↑ Nassauische Annalen , Volume 94, Verlag des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung, 1983
  6. ^ Lohrum, Herbert: Siesmayer, Philipp. Frankfurter Personenlexikon (online edition), accessed on September 10, 2017 (d).
  7. ↑ Rosen-Zeitung. Association of German Rose Friends (ed.), 1904
  8. ^ Lohrum, Herbert: Siesmayer, Philipp. Frankfurter Personenlexikon (online edition), accessed on September 10, 2017 (d).
personal data
SURNAME Siesmayer, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gardener
DATE OF BIRTH October 24, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt-Bockenheim
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1935