Wilhelm Hirsch (garden architect)
Friedrich Wilhelm Hirsch (born June 11, 1887 in Bierstadt near Wiesbaden ; † November 16, 1957 in Wiesbaden) was a German garden architect and landscape planner from Wiesbaden.
Life
Hirsch completed his apprenticeship from 1903 to 1904 in his father's horticultural business and in 1905 in the well-known tree nursery of J. Timm & Co. in Elmshorn . He then traveled through Germany to study. In 1912 Wilhelm Hirsch was named as a training company for gardening and landscape gardeners in Wiesbaden. From 1931 to 1933 he was chairman of the Association of German Garden Architects (VDG).
He ran the dissolution of the association in order to join the "Reich Association of German Horticulture" and thus the " Reichsnährstand ", one of the largest Nazi organizations. He became a leader's advisory board in the specialist group “Garden, Park and Cemetery Design”. During the National Socialist era, Hirsch worked in exposed positions and received numerous public contracts.
He is buried in the cemetery in Wiesbaden-Bierstadt.
Projects
- Park am Anger, Frankfurt (Oder)
- Green area at the Ostmarkstadion in Frankfurt (Oder) - Dammvorstadt, today Słubice
- 1931: Greening in Dresden
- 1932 (together with Edmund Fabry ): Reisinger-Anlagen, Wiesbaden
- 1933–1934 garden design Opelbad , Wiesbaden
- 1937 (together with Edmund Fabry): Wandelhalle in the Herbert-Anlage, Wiesbaden
- 1938: Greening at the Frankfurter Kreuz
- Modernization of the Rhine facilities , Koblenz
- 1951: Safety plantings on the model route Frank am Main - Cologne motorway
Publications
- Planting the roads, in: Planning and building in the new Germany. Cologne / Opladen 1960. p. 88f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Memorandum for the 100th anniversary of the Höhere Gärtnerlehralt , Höhere Gärtnerlehralt Berlin-Dahlem , Trowitzch, 1924, p. 115
- ↑ 100 years of landscape architecture . Text accompanying the exhibition of the BDLA
- ↑ Article “Friedhof Bierstadt” on wiesbaden.de
- ↑ Article “Renovation of the Herbert-Anlage Wandelhalle” on wiesbaden.de
literature
- Gert Gröning / Joachim Wolsche-Bulmahn: Green biographies. Biographical handbook on landscape architecture of the 20th century in Germany , Patzer Verlag, Berlin 1997.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hirsch, Wilhelm |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hirsch, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German garden architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 11, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bierstadt near Wiesbaden |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 16, 1957 |
| Place of death | Wiesbaden |