(b Danzig [now Gdansk, Poland], 20 March 1881; d 30 May 1935). German landscape architect and writer. After a horticultural apprenticeship and training in Hamburg he joined the landscape-gardening firm of Jakob Ochs in 1902. He rose quickly from technician to principal designer. In 1913 he left to become self-employed. Migge had joined the Deutscher Werkbund in 1912 and through designing a number of public parks in Germany he began to develop his theories about the role and function of landscape gardening. He wrote extensively on the subject, and in such books as Jedermann Selbstversorger (1918) and Die Gartenkultur des 20. Jahrhunderts (1920) he explained his ideas about the socialization of urban green space, of transforming the city into an autonomous entity without exploiting the surrounding countryside. From 1920 he put his theories into practice first with his Sonnenhof project at the artists’ colony at Worpswede, and then through his involvement with the housing reform movement. During the 1920s and early 1930s he designed the landscaping for many of the Modern Movement housing estates of the Weimar Republic. He worked with such architects as Otto Haesler (1880–1962), at Georgsgarten, Celle (from 1926), Bruno Taut and Martin Wagner at Britz, Neukölln, Berlin (from 1925), and Waldsiedlung Zehlendorf (from 1926), Berlin; with Ernst May he shaped the housing and landscape policies of Frankfurt am Main. A fierce critic of his profession and motivated by radical political beliefs, Migge fused garden-city ideas with those of the modernists of the 1920s in an attempt to create a socially responsible and engaged landscape architecture.