Gustav Allinger

Gustav Allinger was considered an important, but also controversial, landscape architect. After an apprenticeship as a gardener in Heilbronn, he worked for the public gardens departments in Köln (Cologne), Dortmund, and elsewhere. In 1921 he went to Berlin and from 1928 was municipal garden director in Hindenburg, Upper Silesia, today Zabrze in Poland. In 1932 Allinger finally founded his own company. As early as 1933 he joined the NSDAP (Nazi Party) and was subsequently instrumental in the forced coordination of the professional associations. In 1934-35 he became president of the German Society for Garden Art and worked as a landscape advocate on the design of the Reichsautobahn.

After World War II Allinger was elected vice-president of the Federation of German Garden Architects as early as 1948 and, four years later, he was appointed professor of garden art and landscape design at the Technical University of Berlin. He spent the last years of his life in Bonn, but also taught as a visiting professor in İzmir (Türkiye). One of his most important projects between the wars was the Richard-Wagner-Hain in Leipzig.

According to the Official Report, his project for a sports park dates back to 1939, when he was working in Neukirch/Lausitz in Saxony. One of his projects there was the design of recreational facilities with an outdoor pool, sports ground and park. Due to the outbreak of World War II, the project was never realised.