Gustav Allinger

Biographical information

RolesCompeted in Olympic Games (non-medal events)
SexMale
Full nameKarl Gustav•Allinger
Used nameGustav•Allinger
Born3 November 1891 in Lauffen am Neckar, Baden-Württemberg (GER)
Died9 August 1974 in Bonn, Nordrhein-Westfalen (GER)
NOC Germany
Nationality West Germany

Biography

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 yet unidentified sports park dated back to 1939. His plans for the University of Bonn sports park were only realized in the 1950s.

Results

Games Discipline (Sport) / Event NOC / Team Pos Medal Nationality As
1952 Summer Olympics Art Competitions GER FRG Gustav Allinger
Architecture, Open (Olympic (non-medal)) AC