Heinrich Fintelmann

Friedrich Julius Heinrich Fintelmann (born January 31, 1825 in Tiergartenmühle , † October 10, 1895 in Potsdam ) was a Stolberg-Wernigerodischer gardener, garden inspector and horticultural teacher.

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Heinrich Fintelmann, who came from a court gardener dynasty, was the son of the chief forester in the Berlin zoo, Karl Friedrich Simon Fintelmann . After his father's death in 1837, he came into the care of his cousin Carl Julius Fintelmann , the court gardener at the New Palace in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam . Following the family tradition, he completed an apprenticeship as a gardener on Pfaueninsel from 1842 to 1844 with his cousin, the court gardener Gustav I. Adolph Fintelmann , at the New Palais and in the melonery (forcing) in Sanssouci with the court gardener Eduard I. Nietner and also visited from 1843 to 1845 the royal gardening school at the wildlife park near Potsdam . After completing his military service as a one-year volunteer in 1845/46 and attending scientific lectures at the University of Berlin, he completed his training in 1847 with the exam to become a senior assistant.

From 1847 to 1849 he worked in Charlottenburg with his uncle, the court gardener Ferdinand Fintelmann , and in 1849 acquired the qualification as a Landwehr officer . In May of the same year he went on a study trip that took him to Germany, Belgium, Holland, England and Scotland. After Peter Joseph Lenné employed him in various facilities on his return, he took over work as a senior assistant at the state tree nursery in Alt- Geltow and at the tree nursery in Praust near Danzig from 1851 . In 1859 he was appointed court gardener to Wernigerode and from 1866 to 1875 he took on a teaching post at the " Royal State and Agricultural Academy " in Eldena , where he was appointed garden inspector. In 1877 Fintelmann moved to Potsdam, where he was mainly active in literature. He published his numerous articles from 1888 to 1890 in the “Yearbook for Gardening and Botany” and in the “Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst”, an organ of the “ Association of German Gardening Artists ”, which he and Karl Hampel, the municipal head gardener in Berlin-Treptow, from 1890 also edited until 1893 .

From his private life it is known that in November 1859 he married Auguste Eltze, the daughter of the Potsdam merchant August Albert Eltze and granddaughter of the planner in Sanssouci Wilhelm Sello . The marriage resulted in three children, including Friedrich Carl Walter , who was born in Wernigerode in 1863 and who later became court gardener in Ebersdorf .

Publications (selection)

• Old and new from dendrology , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 1, 1890
• About the tree plantings in Paris , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 1, 1890
• The visit of the Association of German Garden Artists on the Ohrberge near Hameln on June 24, 1889 , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 1, 1890
• The fight of an elm, Ulmus effusa Willd., Against a Wenmouth pine, Pinus Strobus L. , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 1, 1890
• List of some outdoor perennials, which are suitable either for planting groups of foliage plants or as individual plants for larger lawns , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 1, 1890
• The panoramic view from the Belvedere of the Pfingstberg near Potsdam , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 1, 1890
• A pine (Pinus sylvestris) near the Bavarian cottage in the Royal Wildlife Park near Potsdam , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 1, 1890
• Nicotiana colossea, giant tobacco, in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 2, 1891
• The royal state tree nursery in Potsdam , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 2, 1891
• The parks and gardens at Eisgrub in Moravia. Belonging to Prince Johann von und zu Liechtenstein , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 3, 1892
• Motto: Arbor. [Arboretum] , in: Zeitschrift für bildende Gartenkunst, 3, 1892

See also

Family tree of the Fintelmann family of gardeners (excerpt)

literature

• Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Prussian Green. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia . Henschel Verlag, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 3-89487-489-9 , p. 308