Ludwig Fuchs
Owner and managing director of Fuchs baut Gärten GmbH · Dipl.-Ing. (FH) architect, registered with the Bavarian Chamber of Architects.
The architect in landscape gardening
Ludwig Fuchs is owner and managing director of Fuchs baut Gärten GmbH, a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) architect registered with the Bavarian Chamber of Architects. His perspective shapes our gardens: he thinks from the building outwards – and makes sure garden and house belong together.
From building construction to the garden
Ludwig Fuchs grew up in Egling. After secondary school in Wolfratshausen he trained as an industrial mechanic at EagleBurgmann in Wolfratshausen – and kept helping out in his parents' joinery workshop on the side; his mother is a master joiner. So craftsmanship and building have been part of his life from an early age. After his Fachabitur at the BOS in Bad Tölz, he went on to study architecture at the FH München, in the last Diplom-Ingenieur year group. There in 2005 he met Balbina – and also came across the profession of landscape gardener for the first time: he had no idea back then that it was an apprenticeship trade. Today he is at home in the green industry.
After his studies he worked at Drees & Sommer in Munich, where he had already been an intern as a student: project management for major construction projects with a construction volume of €20 million or more, with a focus on IT. Computers were always his second craft – even as a schoolboy he looked after companies' software and maintenance on the side.
In 2011 he married into the family and, like his father-in-law Fred before him, took the name Fuchs. Joining the business was at first an experiment – a couple, plus the parents-in-law, all in one company. It worked harmoniously because everyone found their own area. He added to his skills in the green trade with a site manager course at the Akademie Landschaftsbau Weihenstephan. From 2014 he ran the business together with Fred Fuchs, and by 2020 the handover to the third generation was complete. In 2025 he and Balbina Fuchs accepted the TASPO Award in Berlin for the best landscape gardening project, our company garden – on behalf of everyone who helped build it.
Authorised to submit building plans under Art. 61 para. 2 BayBO: As a registered architect, Ludwig Fuchs may prepare and submit planning application drawings – a rarity in landscape gardening. For clients this means that projects requiring planning permission, such as retaining walls, boundary walls and fences or swimming ponds, come from a single source, with no need for a separate planning office.
Technology that serves the team
Ludwig Fuchs is a thinker: much of what he does starts in his head first – and since the three-person management team divided up the areas of responsibility, he has had the space to put it into practice. There is almost no paper left in the office; since the Covid period the construction crews have been working with tablets that he set up together with Elisabeth Simon – and he uses AI in the business not as a buzzword, but in everyday work.
The rule behind it is simple: we buy whatever makes our colleagues' work easier – from the large screen to the machine the crew chooses itself. Our rotating four-day week belongs to the same approach (more on this under Careers): good work needs people whose job and free time fit together.
“There's no one-size-fits-all approach – you have to look at each individual person.”
Ludwig Fuchs in the profile “Der Projektsteuerer” (GaLaBau blog)
Terrace heights, drainage, connections to the building – at the interface between house and garden, he speaks with your architect as an equal. More on this: Landscape architecture and Consultation & Planning.
“My top priority is efficiency.”
Ludwig Fuchs in DEGA GALABAU
More about his path: the profile “Der Projektsteuerer” on the GaLaBau blog – and the interview “Von der Emotion zur Effizienz” in DEGA GALABAU.
Together with Balbina Fuchs and Elisabeth Simon, he forms the management of the family business – in Lenggries since 1961.
In conversation
The short interview from the 2025 spring meeting gives a direct impression – the gathering where the whole team gets in the mood for the garden year.
On the Fuchs baut Podcast
How he came from large-scale construction to the garden, why efficiency and emotion are not a contradiction, and what makes a good construction process – Ludwig Fuchs talks about all this in the opening episode of our podcast. He also offers a look behind the scenes in Episode 25: Between vision, team spirit and passion for gardens.
All episodes: the Fuchs baut Podcast →
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