Heinrich Zeininger

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Heinrich Zeininger (born March 11, 1867 in Homburg before the height , † May 15, 1939 in Berlin ) was the last royal court garden director in Prussia.

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Heinrich Zeininger in court uniform, around 1939

Heinrich Zeininger was an apprentice in his father Christian Zeininger's commercial nursery and from 1884 he continued his education in England with Frederick Sander in the orchid shop in St Albans, which traded under the name “Sander & Co.” . In 1886 he returned and until 1888 attended the royal gardening school at the Wildpark near Potsdam , which Ferdinand Jühlke was director at the time. After his military service in 1888/89 as a one-year volunteer , various activities in municipal garden administrations followed; from 1889 to 1890 as second assistant in Leipzig and 1890 as first assistant in Hanover and from 1891 to 1894 as city gardener in Magdeburg . In 1893 he passed the examination to become a head gardener.

During the four years that followed in his parents' business, Zeininger took over a teaching post in the field of fruit growing at the agricultural winter school of the Obertaunuskreis and was appointed gardening inspector in the plantation of the Israelite Educational Institute in Ahlem near Hanover in 1898 . In the subsequent employment as a city gardener in Hanover from 1902 to 1905 , he taught part-time horticultural drawing at the local arts and crafts school . In 1906, Zeininger went to Wiesbaden as the first garden inspector for two years , where, among other things, he worked out the plans for the south cemetery laid out in 1908/09 . After the death of garden director Julius Trip , who died early , he returned to Hanover in 1908 as his successor.

Three years later the appointment came to the garden management in Potsdam to replace the court garden director Gustav II. Adolph Fintelmann , who was released on October 1, 1911 for health reasons. Until the First World War, in which Zeininger served as a volunteer from August 1914 to June 1916 , the anniversary terrace below the Orangery Palace, completed in 1913 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Kaiser Wilhelm II's reign, was built during his time .

After the war and the end of the monarchy, Zeininger took on the duties of general manager of the former royal gardens from April 1919 and was elected to the workers 'and soldiers' council of the gardens because of his social commitment . This engagement probably led to tensions with conservative superiors in the Prussian Ministry of Finance, or the immediately formed Crown Administration, which was under the control of the confiscated private assets of the Hohenzollern, and resulted in the transfer to temporary retirement on July 1, 1920. At the same time, the garden management in Berlin was dissolved and the supervision of all former royal gardens was transferred to the district governments. As a civil servant, Zeininger initially stayed in the garden management building below Sanssouci Palace and, through his connections to Hanover, carried out smaller designs for private gardens. In 1922 he was appointed director of the Higher State School for Fruit Growing and Horticulture in Proskau in Silesia and in 1924 went to the Prussian Chamber of Agriculture in Berlin as a research assistant , where he worked until his retirement in 1932.

Heinrich Zeininger died in Berlin in 1939 and found his final resting place in his birthplace Bad Homburg vor der Höhe. In 2004 the city of Potsdam honored him in a new building area in Bornstedter Feld with Heinrich-Zeininger-Straße.

Memberships

Publications

  • Gardener, title and means , in: Gartenwelt, 29, 1925
  • Reflections on the history of the gardening school , in: Gartenwelt, 29, 1925
  • Garden specialists in administration , in: Gartenwelt, 29, 1925
  • The horticultural education system and the university question , in: Gartenwelt, 30, 1926
  • About the training of garden architects , in: Die Gartenkunst, 44, 1931

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Wacker: The difficult way to the museum gardens . In: SPSG: Preußisch Grün , p. 107
  2. ↑ SPSG: Preussisch Grün , p. 338
personal data
SURNAME Zeininger, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court garden director
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1939
Place of death Berlin