Lindenhof stud

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Lindenhof stud

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legal form Society under civil law
founding 1931
Seat Oranienburg
management Jan-Peter Wagner (COO), Ingrid Wagner (CEO)
Branch Agriculture
Website www.gestuet-lindenhof.eu

The Lindenhof stud farm was set up in 1931 by the German publisher Bruno Cassirer on a previously acquired piece of land north of Templin . It is still active today as a horse breeding stud , and trotters are bred .

Cassirer had bought his first horse in 1899 at the age of 27 and subsequently, in addition to his publishing activities, imported first-class American horses, making him one of the most important trotter breeders in Germany. Before buying the Lindenhof, Cassirer had been running a stud in Damsbrück near Falkensee since 1910 . However, since the meadows there were obviously too humid and some horses were suffering from moon blindness as a result , he had decided to find a new, healthier environment for the horses.

Outstanding sire horses at Lindenhof were Colonel Bosworth and the Hambletonian winner Walter Dear , whose first son Probst wrote trotting history on an international level. At that time, Cassirer took a leading position in German trotting - he had saved the Mariendorf trotting track from ruin with his private fortune, he had made German trotting breeding competitive through American imports, held high offices: Chairman of the Mariendorf trotting club, member of the board of trotting owners and in the breeders' association, chairman of the Supreme Authority for Trotter Breeding (OBT).

1933-1945

Cassirer sold the stud shortly after the Nazi "takeover" of power in 1933 (he died in 1941). His long-time horse trainer and friend Charlie Mills took his place as owner until 1945 , with whom Cassirer apparently concluded a gentlemen's agreement , according to which Mills would take over the official management, while Cassirer continued to run the actual stud farm. Charlie Mills won the Prix ​​d'Amérique in Vincennes as a driver in 1934 with Cassirer's horse Walter Dear . At that time Lindenhof had 30 dam mares.

After 1945

Courtyard view around 1980

After the end of the Second World War , six broodmares and one stallion were still available from the breeding horses, with whom the breeding was rebuilt. The outstanding stallion at that time was the Walter Dear son Missouri , whose descendant Ethalon was one of the most successful trotters of his time. Since the stud was foreign property, it was administered, maintained and expanded by the GDR. As a state stud, another good breeding work was done here. Trotters like Missouri , Ethalon , Lennert , Legende , Ethelinda and Lullawat - both from Peter The Great - shaped the stud's reputation.

1989-1999

The former state stud was kept by the Treuhand until 2000 for legal reasons. The size of the breeding farm was drastically reduced.

After 2000

View of the courtyard 2005

In 2000 the community of heirs around Georg Mills, the son of Charlie Mills, sold the stud to Dr. Ingrid Wagner. Today she and her youngest son run the stud farm, a restaurant and a guesthouse, which were integrated into the existing buildings after major investments.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Das Gestüt ( Memento from July 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ http://genealogy.metastudies.net/ZDocs/Cassirer/Cassirer_Falk_Miscellaneous/pages/91.html
  3. ↑ http://genealogy.metastudies.net/ZDocs/Cassirer/Pfennig_Collection/pages/3.html
  4. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20090303233250/http://einestages.spiegel.de/external/ShowTopicAlbumBackground/a3699/l2/l0/F.html
  5. ↑ http://www.gestuet-lindenhof.eu/
  6. ↑ They survived World War II and GDR socialism. They could fail at the trust: The Trotters from Lindenhof . In: The time . No. 38/1993 ( online ).

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Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 56.8 "  N , 13 ° 28 ′ 45.6"  E