Reinhold Lingner

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Reinhold Lingner (born June 27, 1902 in Berlin ; † January 1, 1968 there ) was one of the leading landscape and garden architects in the GDR .

Life

After an apprenticeship as a gardener from 1919 to 1921 in the tree nurseries of the Ludwig Späth company and subsequent years of traveling , Lingner began studying architecture at the Technical University of Stuttgart in 1923 . From 1925 to 1927 he studied garden architecture at the higher gardening school in Berlin-Dahlem . In 1932 he acquired the academic degree of a certified horticultural inspector .

From 1927 to 1933 Lingner was a garden architect for the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. , he designed military cemeteries in Belgium, France and Romania. Because of his marriage to the communist and artist Alice Lingner , he was removed from the public service in 1933.

In 1934 he was appointed to the Academie Européenne Mediterranée in Cavalière (southern France). After working in Belgium and the Netherlands, he returned to Germany in 1936. Here he was primarily concerned with the design of private gardens, employed by the garden architect Paul Roehse in Gütersloh (1937 to 1942) and freelance from 1942 in Eichenbrück in the Wartheland . In 1944 and 1945 he was forced to carry out military camouflage planting with the Todt Organization .

In 1945 Lingner, as head of the Berlin Main Office for Green Planning - under Hans Scharoun as City Planning Officer - developed the plans for the landscape-appropriate deposition and greening of the large urban debris. From 1947 he was a manager at the Institute for Civil Engineering at the German Academy of Sciences , and from 1951 at the German Building Academy . From 1950 to 1952 he played a leading role in the landscape diagnosis of the GDR . In 1961 he was appointed professor for garden design at the Humboldt University in Berlin , succeeding Georg Pniower . In his inaugural address, he wrote that Pniower had left a legacy "that has to be tidied up quite a bit." Lingner and Pniower were the two main figures in landscape architecture in the GDR and stood apart from one another. Their different views of landscape architecture can be identified in the so-called "Tiergarten Debate", which was about the reconstruction of the Great Tiergarten in Berlin.

Reinhold Lingner's grave

His grave is located in the Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery ; it is dedicated to the city of Berlin as an honorary grave .

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Reinhold Lingner's work covers a wide range: from large-scale landscape planning to the design of house gardens, from - partly unrealized - ideas and drafts to consultations and project management. He managed the green space design of the following projects or was involved in them:

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SURNAME Lingner, Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape and garden architect in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1st January 1968
Place of death Berlin