Gustav II. Adolph Fintelmann

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Gustav Adolph Fintelmann (born June 22, 1846 on Pfaueninsel near Potsdam, † September 7, 1918 in Potsdam ) was a Prussian court garden director and at the same time director of the "Royal Gardening School at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam".

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Gustav Adolph Fintelmann, who came from a gardening dynasty, was the son of the court gardener on the peacock island Gustav Adolph Fintelmann , actually Adolph Gustav Fintelmann and Eulalia, née Trippel. Following the family tradition, he learned the gardening profession and completed his training from 1864 to 1865 with the commercial gardener Wilhelm Lauche in Wildpark near Potsdam and then until 1867 at the Royal Gardening School at Wildpark near Potsdam . After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1867/68, Fintelmann worked for a few months as an assistant in his father's area on Pfaueninsel and from 1868 to 1869 worked in the garden of Villa Borsig in Moabit . After completing his senior assistant exams in 1869/70, he went on a journey that took him to northern and western Germany and the Flemish town of Ghent , where he trained with the botanist and gardener Louis Benoît Van Houtte . His participation in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 interrupted the journey, which he continued after the end of the war through England, Scotland, Holland, Belgium, France and southern Germany.

In 1873 Gustav Fintelmann was employed as a garden technician with the senior assistant and later court garden director Hermann Walter at the fifth world exhibition in Vienna, where Gustav Meyer designed the Prussian garden, from 1874 to around 1875 as senior assistant in the New Garden , Potsdam , until 1880 in the palace garden of Charlottenburg , Berlin and until 1884 as court gardener on behalf of Hermann Walter in his Marlygarten district , in the eastern part of the Sanssouci park . He was also responsible for the garden of the Liegnitz villa . In addition to these tasks, Fintelmann took on a teaching post at the "Royal Gardening College in Schöneberg and Potsdam", where he taught landscape gardening from 1879 to 1884 and became a Freemason in the St. John's Lodge "Teutonia zur Wisdom" in Potsdam in 1884 .

When the Kingdom of Hanover and the Electorate of Hesse were annexed by Prussia after the German War in 1866 , the gardens also came under Prussian administration. In 1884 Fintelmann was appointed court gardener to Hanover in the Georgengarten and from 1891 to 1898 to Wilhelmshöhe in the local mountain park . The head gardener from Treptow , Carl Hampel , reported on his activities in Hanover in 1890 in the “Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst”: In the royal gardener G. Fintelmann, the garden received the man who brought the overgrown trees back to the right size, us Distant views opened up and thereby gave the garden the projected scenery. The breaking through of the groups in order to obtain the most varied of scenes, to allow the large fountain in the Herrenhausen Garden to come into its own in the depths between the woods, to have the images of the surrounding landscape drawn into the garden, all of this is just one Merit of this garden artist . In 1896 he received the title of garden inspector and in 1897 court garden inspector.

In June 1898 Gustav Fintelmann was appointed court garden director to Potsdam. This office was also linked to the director's position at the "Royal Gardening School at the Wildpark near Potsdam", which he held until the establishment was relocated to Berlin-Dahlem in October 1903 and in Dahlem until the official handover to the then deputy director Theodor Echtermeyer on February 8, 1909. Fintelmann designed gardens in Brandenburg, Bohemia, on Lake Murten in Switzerland and at the Posen residential palace . In Potsdam he drew up plans for the redesign of the area between the Orangery Castle and the Belvedere on the Klausberg to the west, which was carried out between 1902 and 1908, and his pupil, head gardener Georg Potente, was commissioned to manage it in 1904 and which is now called “Potentestück” because of his horticultural work. In addition, between 1903 and 1906, Fintelmann carried out expansions and modernizations of the fruit and vegetable forcing shops below the Belvedere, took over the redesign of Luisenplatz in 1903 after a fountain was exchanged for a Kaiser Friedrich monument and from 1907 placed for Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia the park of Villa Ingenheim . In 1911 Fintelmann asked for his retirement for health reasons, as he suffered from severe hearing loss. He retired on October 1 of that year and died in Potsdam at the age of 72 in 1918, where he found his final resting place in the New Cemetery .

family

It is known from his private life that he entered into three marriages. In 1876 Fintelmann married Anna Böger, the daughter of a senior teacher from Königsberg in the Neumark , (undated) Georgine Voigt, the daughter of a construction manager from Hanover, and in 1892 Anna Seydel, the daughter of the Berlin Mayor Karl Theodor Seydel . Of his three children , Katharina, born in Charlottenburg in 1879 , married also Käthe, the court gardener and later garden inspector Kurt Nietner , who was appointed to the Babelsberg Park in 1898 , from the Nietner family .

Publications

  • Cultur der Chrysanthemum , in: Der Deutsche Garten, 1, 1878
  • Culture of Poinsettia pulcherrima , in: Der Deutsche Garten, 1, 1881
  • The main entrance of the Park of Sanssouci , in: Garten-Zeitung. Monthly for gardeners and gardeners, 1, 1882
  • The royal gardening school in Sanssouci near Potsdam , in: Deutsche Gärtnerzeitung, 7, 1883
  • The Jühlke anniversary , in: Deutsche Gärtnerzeitung, 8, 1884
  • Information about Poinsettia pulcherrima , in: Deutsche Gärtnerzeitung, 8, 1884
  • The wine greenhouses on the Drachenberg in Sanssouci . In: Möller's Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung, 18, 1903
  • Kaiser Wilhelm II. And garden art , in: Gartenflora , 55, 1906
  • From the Park of Sanssouci , in: Gartenflora, 55, 1906

See also

Family tree of the Fintelmann family of gardeners (excerpt)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 309.
  2. ↑ Clemens Alexander Wimmer in: SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 89.
  3. ^ Theodor Echtermeyer: The Royal Gardener Training Institute at the Wildlife Park near Potsdam 1824–1899 , Berlin 1899, p. 215.
  4. ^ Marieanne von König: Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2006, p. 233, p. 277.
  5. ^ Carl Hampel: The royal gardens at Herrenhausen near Hanover. Der Georgengarten , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 1, 1890, p. 356 f.
  6. ^ Wimmer, in: SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 162.
personal data
SURNAME Fintelmann, Gustav II. Adolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fintelmann, Gustav II. Adolf; Fintelmann, Gustav II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court garden director
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Pfaueninsel near Potsdam
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 1918
Place of death Potsdam