Wilhelm Huebotter

Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Hübotter (born June 16, 1895 in Neu Garge near Bleckede on the Elbe, † July 28, 1976 in Hanover ) was a German garden and landscape architect and university professor .

Life

family

Hübotter was the father of the architect Peter Hübotter , with whom he also worked in Hanover. The lawyer and building contractor Klaus Hübotter in Bremen is also his son.

education and profession

Hübotter attended the Andreas Realgymnasium in Hildesheim and completed an apprenticeship in the local gardening department in Hanover from 1912 to 1914 before serving as a soldier in the First World War until 1918 . Then he worked in the course of his wandering years at the tree nursery Späth in Berlin .

In 1919 he began studying at the college for fruit and wine growing in Geisenheim , which he graduated in 1922. From 1923 he worked as a freelance garden architect, first in Hildesheim, then in Hanover. In total, he designed around 2,300 both public and private gardens and parks and other open spaces in this function, some of which he also published. Hübotter, influenced by the Wandervogel movement, was one of the first exclusively planning garden architects in 1930. He was a member of the German Werkbund .

In 1930, around the same time as Henry van de Velde was building the Heinemanhof in Hanover , Huebotter created the monastery garden - which was no longer in its original conception.

The designs of the Thingstätte Sachsenhain near Verden (Aller) are attributed to Huebotter in 1934 according to the ideas of the SS leadership (together with Karl Dröge ). Hübotter, himself never a member of the NSDAP , let himself be released from the further implementation of the project after public criticism of his cooperation.

At the end of 1945, Hübotter was commissioned by the British military authorities to design the grounds of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . However, he was criticized for his collaboration with the National Socialists.

In 1947, Hübotter was one of the co-founders of the Hanover University of Horticulture and Regional Culture in Sarstedt (today part of the University of Hanover ), where he held a teaching position from 1954 to 1960.

In 1948 he was also a founding member of the Association of German Garden Architects (BDGA). In 1950 he took part in the third meeting of the so-called Anholter Circle .

Wilhelm Hübotter's grave can be found in the cemetery in Hanover-Anderten next to his former home, Tessenowweg 5 .

Other works (selection)

Hübotters around 2300 works included

• around 1930, together with “O. Langerhans “: Design of open spaces in the garden city of Kleefeld in Hanover;
• 1933: “ Jadega ” (annual show of German gardening culture), next to the Hanover city hall ;
• 1936–1938, together with “H. Klüppelberg u. H. Wernicke “: Hermann-Löns-Park in Hanover;
• 1938, with Konstanty Gutschow : 1st prize for the gardens of the German embassy in Ankara ;
• 1951, together with Peter Hübotter: site of the first Federal Garden Show , 1951 in Hanover ;
• from 1953: green spaces around the Werdersee in Bremen;
• around 1957: Design of open spaces at the Wilhelm Busch School in Hanover.

Honors

• Hübotter was an honorary member of the German Society for Garden Art and Landscape Culture .
• In 1955, Hübotter was awarded the " Martin Pietzsch Medal Dresden ".
• In 1970 he received the Heinrich Tessenow Medal from the " FVS Foundation "
• The lifeboat Wilhelm Hübotter of the German Society for the Rescue of Shipwrecked People (DGzRS) is named after him.

literature

• Hinrich Jantzen (Hrsg.): Names and works: biographies and contributions to the sociology of the youth movement. Volume 3 in the series Sources and Contributions to the Sociology of the Youth Movement , Volume 12. dipa-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1975, ISBN 3-7638-0253-3 and ISBN 3-7638-1253-9 , pp. 145–149.
• Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Green biographies. Biographical handbook on landscape architecture of the 20th century in Germany. Berlin / Hanover 1997, p. 159f.
• Rita Seidel (written editor), Horst Gerken u. a. (Red. Group): Festschrift for the 150th anniversary of the University of Hanover , Volume 2: Catalogus professorum 1831–1981. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne / Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-17-007321-4 , p. 124.
• Rainer Schomann (ed.), Urs Boeck : Historical gardens in Lower Saxony. Catalog for the state exhibition, opening on June 9, 2000 in the foyer of the Lower Saxony state parliament, on the occasion of the state exhibition Historical Gardens in Lower Saxony . Hannover, 2000, p. 107f.
• Helmut Knocke : Hübotter, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen : Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 179, etc. ( online via google books ).
• Helmut Knocke: Hübotter, (1) Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n} Helmut Knocke: HÜBOTTER ... (see literature)
2. ↑ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Hübotter, (2) Peter. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 310
3. ^ Helmut Knocke, Hugo Thielen: Heinemanhof. In: Hannover Art and Culture Lexicon , p. 133
4. ↑ ^{a b} Garden and Landscape , 95th year 1985, ISSN  0016-4720 , p. 38f.
5. ↑ ^{a b} Helmut Knocke: Hübotter, (1) ... (see literature)
6. ↑ Georg Barke , Wilhelm Hatopp ( edit .): New building in Hanover: builders, architects, building trade, construction industry report on planning and execution of the construction years 1948 to 1954 (= monographs of the building industry , volume 23), vol. 1, ed. From the press office of the capital Hanover in cooperation with the municipal building management, Stuttgart: Aweg Verlag Max Kurz, 1955, p. 33
7. ↑ ^{a b} Hugo Thielen, Helmut Knocke: Hannover, Art and Culture Lexicon , passim