Baden-Württemberg

Professional policy, European neighbourhood, climate protection and health are in focus!

On 03 July 2020, the general meeting of the bdla Baden-Württemberg took place in the second attempt in the House of Architects of the Chamber of Architects Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart. The date on 24 March 2020 had to be cancelled at short notice in accordance with the Corona Ordinance. Now, in compliance with the special hygiene conditions and distance rules, all association formalities could be completed in accordance with the statutes and the election of the new board could also be carried out.

With unanimous majorities Urs Müller-Meßner was newly elected for the office of the 1st chairman and Bernadette Siemensmeyer was confirmed as deputy chairman for a shortened term of office of one year.

v.l.n.r.: Urs Müller-Meßner, Vorstand, Bernadette Siemensmeyer, stellv. Vorsitzende, Ralph Wölffing-Seelig, Schatzmeister, Ulrike Luz, Geschäftsführung - Foto: D. Mitrovic

Urs Müller-Meßner, freelance landscape architect, managing director and partner of Kienleplan GmbH, Leinfelden-Echterdingen, has worked there since 1994 as an employee with a focus on large-scale projects and projects abroad. Associated with Prof. Kienle since 2014, he took over the office in 2016.
He has been a member of the bdla since 2010 and from 2017 - 2020 he will be the Baden-Württemberg spokesperson in the bdla working group "Städtebau".He has been actively involved in the Stuttgart-Filder chamber group of the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects as deputy chairman since 2014 and as chairman since 2018.
His programmatic objectives within his term of office over the next three years include the promotion of young talent and intensive contact with the Nürtingen University of Economics and the Environment, HfWU Nürtingen, the linking of landscape architecture's policy of interests with state policy, as well as climate protection and health as a core competence of landscape architecture. Close cooperation with the Chamber of Architects goes without saying. Due to his Swiss roots, he also looks across the borders, especially for thematic cooperation with the BSLA and with colleagues from his European neighbours.

Handover of office: Michael Hink and Urs-Müller-Meßner - Photo: Ulrike Luz

Bernadette Siemensmeyer, a partner in Büro 365°, Überlingen, an assessor on the board since 2010 and Michael Hink's deputy chair since 2014, will continue to oversee the extensive focus on landscape planning as well as the numerous cooperations at the level of the Ministry for the Environment, Climate and Energy Management, the Academy for the Environment, the Association for Urban, Regional and State Planning SRL and other environmental associations. It also continues the important bdla conference format "Landscape + Planning" in this field.

Michael Hink had taken over as chair and successor to Clemens Appel, Karlsruhe, in 2014. At that time, he had already been a member of the board for three terms of office and had been involved for many years as the Baden-Württemberg spokesperson in the bdla public relations working group. He has intensively pursued his priorities over the last six years, which he introduced with the programmatic keywords "consolidation, competence, collegiality as well as politics and public relations" when he took office.
He has rendered outstanding services in the promotion of young talent with realisation competitions, countless seminars, conferences and most recently the activities in the context of the BUGA Heilbronn 2019. In addition to his involvement in the selection committee of the "Staatspreis Baukultur Baden-Württemberg", he has supported the association's participation in the annual state and garden shows and, as vice-chairman of the bwgrün, the society for the promotion of Baden-Württemberg state garden shows, he has contributed to the interests of landscape architects. He remains loyal to the bdla in this function and also as an assessor in the state association.

Ralph Wölffing-Seelig, owner of the planning office of the same name in Stuttgart, has been steering the financial fortunes of the state association as treasurer since 2019.

In the ranks of the assessors, who are appointed by the chairpersons, there has already been a change in May 2019 after the departure of Cornelia Biegert. Claudia Huesmann, landscape architect and member of staff at Büro 365°, Überlingen, will now support the field of landscape planning. She has many years of experience in technical committee work at the level of the Ministry for the Environment, Climate and the Energy Sector and has, for example, been involved in the evaluation of the Ecological Account Ordinance at the Ministry for the Environment in BW. The previous assessors Susanna Hirzler, Freiburg, Christiane Meßner, Stuttgart and Kurt Rau, Ravensburg, are still active.

Board and assessors - from left to right, in front Dijana Mitrovic, junior spokesperson and the assessors Christiane Meßner and Susanna Hirzler (back right) - Photo: Ulrike luz

For many years, Cornelia Biegert has been particularly committed to young professionals by supervising the bdla junior competitions. In the context of the BUGA Heilbronn 2019, she has supervised the implementation, construction and deconstruction of the show garden "Heilbronn 2.0 - A multifaceted society" as mentor of the prize-winning group. As a "woman on the spot", the bdla, the project partners and all those involved could count on her at all times.

After the numerous information on current professional topics of the bdla national and state association, on the planned activities and training events as well as the numerous cooperations, on the promotion of young professionals and the report of the junior spokeswomen, the discussion continued at lunch with "distance".

A very special thank you goes to the many bdla members in the state who are active on a voluntary basis and who are regularly involved in the committees of the bdla, the AKBW, the ministries and in cooperation with other associations and institutions with great professional verve.
With so much commitment - as originally planned in March - a dignified conclusion and farewell for the outgoing board members would have been due. Unfortunately, in view of the Corona pandemic, this had to be cancelled. All the more reason to thank Michael Hink and Cornelia Biegert for their many years of work and commitment.

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