Horst Baeseler

Hoesrt Baeseler (10 March 1930 – 20 September 2004) was a German architect. He was part of the Reinhold Lingner school of garden and landscape architects.[1]

Hoesrt Baeseler
Born	10 March 1930 Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Died	20 September 2004 Berlin, Germany
Occupation	Architect

Life

Horst Baeseler was born in Dresden in the southern part of what was then central Germany. His father was a pharmacist. He attended school at the city's prestigious King George Gymnasium, but his school days were prematurely terminated in February 1945 when the school was destroyed. The war ended in May 1945 and Dresden found itself in the Soviet occupation zone of what remained of Germany, controlled by the Soviet military. Four years later the entire "zone" was subsequently relaunched as a stand-alone East German state under Soviet sponsorship, the German Democratic Republic formally founded in October 1949. Baeseler trained between 1945 and 1948 as a gardener at the Paul Hauber Tree School[2] in Dresden-Tolkewitz. He then started work as a gardener, focusing on herbaceous shrubs and trees. He also continued to train, now with Johann Greiner at the Horticultural Academy in Pillnitz. In 1951 he took a part in a machinery training course for gardeners in Quedlinburg.[1]

Between 1951 and 1991, at the behest of Johann Greiner, Horst Baeseler was an employee of the National Building Academy. Here, until 1955, he was working with Reinhold Lingner, the country's leading garden and landscape architect. The two of them worked on the landscaping for the Wilhelm Pieck Pioneers' Republic in Altenhof, north of Berlin: this was to become the principal recreational and training/indoctrination camp for selected Young Pioneers.[3] Greiner and Baseler later worked together on the Stalinstadt Arts and Sports centre in Eisenhüttenstadt.[1][4] Between 1952 and 1955 Baeseler studied at the Humboldt University of Berlin, emerging with an engineering degree in Landscape planning. For the next three decades he was involved in a series of high-profile East German construction projects.[1]

In 1981 Baeseler was involved in an East German Development Support project in Mozambique.[5] His contribution involved garden and landscape construction projects. Between 1991 and 1996 he worked at the Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning.[1]

Horst Baeseler died in Berlin in 2004. He left behind him numerous texts, reports. working papers, letters, books, plans and sketches.[5]

References

1. Volker Wagner. "Baeseler, Horst * 10.3.1930, † 20.9.2004 Architekt" (in German). Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur: Biographische Datenbanken. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
2. Martin Kaden; et al. (24 March 2008). "Baumschule Hauber". Stadtwiki Dresden. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
3. Alexander Thorogne (10 September 2008). "Pionierrepublik Wilhelm Pieck: Propaganda in den Ferien ... Bananen, Apfelsinen und Eis-am-Stiel - für den neunjährigen Alexander Thorogne die schönste Belohnung. Er zählte zu den auserwählten Kindern, die die DDR 1983 zur politischen Weiterbildung an den Werbelinsee schickte. Und die dort nicht mehr aus dem Staunen herauskamen". Der Spiegel (online). Retrieved 7 March 2015.
4. "Pionierrepublik Wilhelm Pieck, Werbellinsee". Freilichttheater, Übersichtsplan, Objektnummer 60/946/04, Phase G+A, Blattnummer 1. Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung e.V. / Deutsches Museum Digitalisierungsprojekt DigiPEER, Munich. Retrieved 7 March 2015.
5. "Bestand (G):Bestand (G): Nachlässe ...Horst Baeseler" (PDF). This source is inconsistent with others in respect of Baeseler's date of death. In other respects it appears to be consistent with other sources, however. Leibniz-Institut für Regionalentwicklung und Strukturplanung (IRS), Erkner. Retrieved 7 March 2015.