Wilhelm Heintz

This article deals with the garden architect, for the chemist see Wilhelm Heinrich Heintz

Wilhelm Anton Heintz (born August 29, 1888 in Bonn ; † November 8, 1966 in Sottrum ) was a German garden and landscape planner .

life and work

After an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, which was discontinued for health reasons, Heintz learned the gardening subject autodidactically and from 1908 worked for over 25 years in various North German gardeners. In 1927 he first presented drafts for an open-air theater on the Kalkberg in Bad Segeberg , but was not involved in the later implementation.

In 1934 he joined the Reichsheimstättenamt of the NSDAP and DAF (RHA) as a garden planner and settlement advisor, where he met Peter Koller for the first time . During his two-year activity, he and his colleagues Theo Prechter and Wilhelm Foeth developed the garden design for a number of settlement plans; so for the Mascherode settlement in Braunschweig . In addition, he worked as an author of the RHA for the magazine "settlement and business" and advised local garden experts, as teaching the individual settlers homestead settlements supervised.

In 1936 he opened his own planning office in Berlin and quickly received an order from Herbert Rimpl to take over the green space planning for the Heinkel works in Oranienburg . In addition to the gardens and associated factory settlements and all sports fields, he set up the nearby Annahof as a commercial gardening facility. After a few years, the farm was in a position to sell surplus goods on the regional market beyond the company's canteen for fruit and vegetables.

Wilhelm Heintz's most important creative phase began at the end of 1937, when he received the order from Rimpl for the general green space planning for the new “City of Hermann Göring Works ” (today's Salzgitter ). At the same time, with his help, the foundations for the “City of the KdF Wagons ” (today: Wolfsburg ) were laid. In both new cities founded by National Socialism , Heintz was responsible for soil investigations to determine the suitability for various settlement uses (multi-storey building, small settlements, allotment gardens), in addition, in the city of Hermann Göring Works, he was responsible for monitoring the construction work with regard to the correct handling of the topsoil and the Large greenery to protect the city districts against industrial smoke. The classification of the buildings in the Steimker Berg district of Wolfsburg can be traced back to his planning activities, as was the layout of the Wolfsburg Moor cemetery. From 1943 he traveled several times to Waldbröl to carry out preparatory soil investigations for the establishment of the “City of KdF Tractor Works”.

As a politically unaffected specialist, he became the local head of the housing committee for the accommodation of refugees in Derneburg immediately after the war and, at the same time, chairman of the local denazification commission .

Even after the Second World War, Heintz worked for both cities. He planned paths and green corridors for Wolfsburg-based Neuland GmbH and, on behalf of the Volkswagen Group, the green areas of the Parkbad (today VW-Bad , built according to plans by Otto Immendorff, Hildesheim ). In Salzgitter, his design specifications flowed into the green space plan of the 1960s and thus formed a long-term basis for the city's landscape development.

Web links

• Wilhelm Heintz at architektur-geschichte.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Norbert Rohde : Historical military objects of the Oberhavel region, Volume 1: The Heinkel aircraft factory Oranienburg. Velten Verlag GmbH, Leegebruch 2006, ISBN 3-9811401-0-9 , p. 25.