Willi Wendt

This article deals with the garden designer Willi Wendt. On the resistance fighter see Willy Wendt .

Willi Wendt , actually Wilhelm Wendt (* May 9, 1854 ; † after 1930), was a German garden designer and horticultural director in Berlin .

life and work

The garden courtyard of the “Esplanade” hotel, designed by Willi Wendt. The photo was probably taken shortly after the hotel and garden were completed around 1910

After an apprenticeship as a gardener in the Liebig nursery in Dresden , Willi Wendt first worked as an assistant in his father's company, "Rosen Wendt", in Hasenheide in Berlin .

Later he went freelance as a landscape gardener in Berlin . Around 1901 he specialized in the creation and maintenance of hotel gardens. During this time he created the horticultural facilities for the luxury hotels " Esplanade ", " Bristol " and " Savoy ".

From 1913 to at least 1930 he was Berlin Horticultural Director.

Willi Wendt was also a member of the German Society for Garden Art (DGfG) and the Association of German Garden Artists (VdG) and its treasurer for ten years . In addition, he was a member of the Berlin Masonic lodge to the golden ship .

literature

• Willi Wendt: The gardens of the inner courtyards of the Hotel Bristol and the Savoy Hotel in Berlin , in: Gartenkunst (magazine), Jg. 1, 1899, H. 4, S. 62-67.
• Willi Wendt: Horticultural decoration of the courtyards and facades of our big city houses , in: Gartenkunst (magazine), Jg. 7, 1905, H. 3, S. 39-42.
• Gert Gröning, Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn: Green biographies. Biographical handbook on landscape architecture of the 20th century in Germany , Berlin [u. a.]: Patzer, 1997, ISBN 3-87617-089-3 , p. 410.
• Gartenwelt (magazine), vol. 28, 1924, p. 216