Meldungsbuch Hochschule für Bodenkultur, 1. Oktober 1919
Ilse Wallentin – Biography
Ilse Wallentin was born in Vienna on 26 April 1895 as the daughter of Robert and Clara Wallentin, née Liedtke.
She attended primary school from 1901, first in Vienna, then in Rovereto/South Tyrol and finally for one year in Berlin. From 1906 to 1913 she attended the girls' lyceum in Rovereto. From 1916 to 1918 she attended the municipal girls' grammar school in Innsbruck (graduating with distinction in July 1918).
On 1 October 1919 Ilse Wallentin enrolled as a regular student at the Hochschule für Bodenkultur, majoring in agriculture. She completed her studies on 28 March 1924 with the Third State Examination.
On 9 April 1924, she submitted the dissertation "Standweitenversuche mit Coriandrum sativum, Pimpinella anisum und Digitalis lanata" for admission to the viva voce examination. The defense of the doctor's thesis took place on 15 May 1924, the graduation ceremony on 21 May 1924.
Ilse Wallentin was the first female graduate to earn a doctorate from the Hochschule für Bodenkultur.
In 1925 Dr. Ilse Wallentin and Dipl.-Ing. Josef Blasch, assistant at BOKU, married in Vienna.
From 1925 to 1942 she was a member of the editorial staff of the journal "Der Pionier".
From July 1942 to December 1960, Ilse Blasch-Wallentin worked at the Experimental and Research Station for Agriculture in Vienna, later the Federal Station for Agronomy and Seed Testing. Initially she was a specialist employee for the administration of the Fuchsenbigl experimental farm, then in the higher technical specialist service in the studbook department.
From 1949 to 1965 she edited the Yearbook of the Federal Institute for Agronomy and Seed Testing.
Ilse Blasch-Wallentin died in Vienna on 22 November 1975, she was buried at Grinzinger Friedhof.
Sources: Archiv der Universität für Bodenkultur, Privatarchiv Ilse Mitterauer-Blasch
The house
The Ilse-Wallentin House, which opened on 12 October 2020, was planned by the architectural firm SWAP (architecture and general planning: ARGE Delta Projekte GmbH and SWAP Architekten ZT GmbH) using timber construction. Thanks to the prefabricated wooden elements, the seminar building could be erected in a construction time of only 14 months.
The builder and owner of the climate-friendly university building, which meets the klimaaktiv Gold Standard, is the Bundesimmobiliengesellschaft.
The building consists of four upper floors and, apart from a core of exposed concrete, a concrete base and a basement, is constructed entirely of wooden elements. On 3016 m2, teaching and research is possible in different areas: a seminar zone with ten seminar rooms for around 500 students, library rooms and user rooms for around 130 students, an institute zone with 114 workstations and around one thousand square metres of usable space on the 2nd and 3rd floors.
Sources: Federal Real Estate Company BIG Project Database, Public Relations Office University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
