Erwin Barth (28 November 1880 – 10 July 1933) was a German landscape gardener and architect. His work was part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Barth was born to Albert Barth and Luise in Lübeck. A year after the birth of his sister Frieda in 1882, his father died from tuberculosis. Primary school at the Realgymnasium gave him an interest in nature studies, and he began to collect plants and other natural history objects. He wanted to find an education that would allow him to work and earn for the family, so he decided to train as a garden architect at the Royal Gardening College near Potsdam which did not require an Abitur (degree) but required a two year apprenticeship for which he joined the commercial gardening company of Philipp Paulig in L