John Cornelius Booth

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John Cornelius Booth (born November 2, 1836 in Nienstedten / Elbe , † February 5, 1908 in Groß-Lichterfelde ) was a German dendrologist , tree nursery owner, entrepreneur and urban developer.

Life

Boothsche Nursery in Hamburg-Flottbek

John Cornelius Booth was born on November 2, 1836 in Nienstedten / Elbe, today Hamburg-Nienstedten . His father was the arborist John Richmond Booth (1799-1847), his mother Maria Elizabeth de la Camp (1805-1868).

John Cornelius Booth spent his apprenticeship in Alsace and at the Veitch & Sons nursery and nursery in London. In 1859 he joined the tree nursery "James Booth & Sons", which had been founded by his grandfather James Booth (1772-1814) in Flottbek . In 1863 he and his brother Joachim Lorenz de la Camp Booth (1832–1887) took over their management from their mother Maria Elisabeth and their father Joachim Lorentz de la Camp (1781–1864). After the early death of his father John Richmond Booth in 1847, both had continued the commercial gardening and tree nursery. As of May 5, 1868, Lorenz and John Cornelius were shareholders. In January 1869, John Cornelius dissolved the partnership with his brother Joachim and became the sole owner.

He enlarged the tree nursery, raised forest trees for large-scale cultivation and developed the Douglas fir, introduced by his father, into the most important tree in forest reforestation. In 1877 Booth published his findings on the Douglas spruce and some other conifers . In Friedrichsruh in the Sachsenwald he planted plantations for Prince Bismarck, who valued him not only professionally but also personally and was more informal towards him than many other visitors, so that Booth's notes on his conversations with Bismarck are particularly informative. It is thanks to his connection to Bismarck that in August 1880 the director Königl. Forstakademie Eberswalde Bernhard Danckelmann, the topic of "Attempts to cultivate foreign tree species" to determine the cultivation of their silvicultural behavior and their yields was put on the agenda of the Association of German Forest Research Institutes. Booth gave a lecture to the association's meeting in Baden-Baden in September 1880. The experiments began in 1881. In 1907 the Douglas fir was recommended for cultivation in the state forests by ministerial decree.

From 1869 Booth was also the horticultural advisor to Johann Anton Wilhelm von Carstenn , the founder of the Lichterfelde-West villa colony and one of the initiators of the Grunewald villa colony . Presumably they already knew each other from Hamburg, where Carstenn had built the Hamburg-Marienthal villa colony from 1857 . Booth bought 26  hectares of land in Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1864 in the area between today's Fasanenstrasse , Lietzenburger , Ranke- and Hardenbergstrasse , in order to run a tree nursery. Carstenn bought oaks, linden trees and chestnuts from him, with which he had the streets of Lichterfelde planted.

He played an important role in founding the Kurfürstendamm Society . In 1882 he succeeded in putting together a consortium led by Deutsche Bank to finance the expansion of the Kurfürstendamm. He signed a contract with the royal government in Potsdam , with which he undertook to expand the Kurfürstendamm. In return, he received a right of first refusal over 234 hectares of building land in Grunewald for the construction of a villa colony. Shortly after the contract was signed, Booth ceded his rights to Deutsche Bank for compensation.

In 1884 Booth sold his property in Flottbek and finally came to Berlin in 1885. He participated in the development of the villa colonies in Lichterfelde and Grunewald and was involved in the planting of the Grunewald . Booth lived at Kurfürstendamm 114 around 1890, which is also where his tree nursery was located, according to the address book. Around 1900 he lived as a privateer in Lankwitz , Mozartstrasse 37-39. Boothstrasse in Berlin-Lichterfelde has been named after him since 1879 .

Booth had become a member of the German Dendrological Society in 1903 .

family

John Booth was married to Anna Friederike von Bergen (1837-1912), with whom he had two daughters and the son John Booth (1863-1924), who later became Reich Commissioner for German Cotton Cultivation in the East African colonies of Germany.

Honors

  • July 2, 1871 Red Eagle Order , IV class (9112).
  • In 1891 Booth was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Belgian Leopold Order.

Employee

The heyday of the commercial nursery and tree nursery "James Booth & Sons" in Flottbek was in the fifties and sixties of the nineteenth century. About 100 people were employed. Some went into business for themselves, which is why James Booth & Sons can be seen as the nucleus of today's Schleswig-Holstein tree nursery area.

  • Johannes von Ehren (1832–1906) began an apprenticeship as a gardener in 1849 and left in 1855. He returned again in 1859, resigned in 1864 and started his own business in 1865.
  • Head gardeners were Mr. Maas for potted and greenhouse plants, Mr. Schmidt for the tree nurseries and Mr. Rauch for the perennials. The care and cultivation of the orchid culture was in the hands of the Englishman Goode.
  • Christian Nicolaus Heinrich Petersen (1835–?) Had been employed by Booth for 1½ years from 1855. Around 1859 he started his own business in Altona, in 1889 he sold the site to the city of Altona.
  • Emil Clausen (? –1891) came to Booth in 1855 as an apprentice gardener, later head gardener and teacher at the Nikita Botanical Garden .
  • Metaphius Theodor August Langenbuch (1842–1907) was an assistant around 1863. He became the city gardener of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck.
  • In 1868, Carl Ansorge (1849–1915) joined the nursery as an assistant at the age of 19. In 1870 he went to Kristiania (today: Oslo ) for a short time . In 1880 he left as head gardener in order to set up his own gardening business.

Works

Publications in magazines

literature

  • Arnold Körte: 7 Villa John Booth, Berlin – Lichterfelde publ. 1870 . In: Martin Gropius. Life and work of a Berlin architect 1824–1880, Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2013, pp. 200 ff., ISBN 978-3-86732-080-1 , (report on a drawing of a new villa on behalf of John R. Booth)
  • Hans Walden: Booth, John Cornelius . In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 2 . Christians, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-7672-1366-4 , pp. 59-59 .
  • Maria Möring:  Booth, John Cornelius. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 453 ( digitized version ).
  • Günter Brüggemann: The Holstein tree nursery landscape , (dissertation), Volume 14 of the publications of the Geographical Institute of the University of Kiel , ZDB -ID 5009819 , Issue 4, 1953, p. 18 ff.
  • Maria Möring: The Hamburg family Booth. Dissertation, Hamburg 1950
  • Carl Ansorge: About the introduction of foreign trees and the involvement of the Booth family in it . In: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 29, 1920, pp. 272 ​​ff.
  • [Adam] Schwappach : Obituaries. John Booth, in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 17, 1908, pp. 5-7
  • M. [Max] H. [Hesdörffer]: John Booth (obituary). In: The Garden World , XII. Vol., Paul Parey , Berlin 1908, pp. 250-251.
  • Communications : John Booth (obituary). In: Journal of Forestry and Hunting . Vol. 40, 1908, pp. 257-258
  • Notes . In: Gartenflora , 34th year, 1885, pp. 378–379, (Notes on the closure in Klein-Flottbek. There: "Alt. N." = Altonaer Nachrichten )
  • Feuilleton in: Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung , Norbert Kittler, Hamburg, No. 26, 1870, pp. 137-139.
  • The tree nurseries of Messrs. James Booth and Sons in Flottbeck , in: Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung , Norbert Kittler, Hamburg, No. 19, 1863, p. 290 ff., (Task of the orchid collection)
  • Die Flottbeck Nurseries , in: Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung , Norbert Kittler, Hamburg, No. 18, 1862, p. 433 ff., (Task of the orchid collection)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adam Schwappach: Obituaries. John Booth, in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 17, 1908, pp. 5–7, differing from the year of death 1909 and place of death Nienstedten: Maria Möring: Booth, John Cornelius in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 2 (1955), p. 453
  2. ↑ Maria Möring:  Booth, John Richmond. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 453 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b c Christian Koopmann: The seniors of the Hamburg-Altonaer Handelsgärtner , in: Max Hesdörffer (Ed.): Die Gartenwelt , VII. Jg., Issue 16, Carl Schmidt & Co, Leipzig 1903, pp. 186-192
  4. ↑ Announcement : Entry in the company register: No. 185, Royal District Court, Division I, in: Hamburger Nachrichten dated May 12, 1868, page 3
  5. ↑ No. 6, first announcement , In: Allerhöchst Priviligierte Schleswig-Holsteinische advertisements for the year 1869 , official part, Augustin, Glückstadt, 3rd item January 18, 1869, pp. 28-29, digitizedhttp: //vorlage_digitalisat.test/1%3D~GB%3DgrQOAAAAYAAJ~IA%3D~MDZ%3D%0A~SZ%3D%3DRA1-PA28~ double-sided%3D~LT%3D~PUR%3D
  6. ^ [Adam] Schwappach: Obituaries . John Booth
  7. ↑ Deviating location: "... the tree nursery set up by John Booth inside the red wall on the corner of Berlin and Wilhelmstrasse." Ignaz Urban : Flora von Groß-Lichterfelde and the surrounding area . In: Negotiations of the Botanical Association for the Province of Brandenburg. 22nd year, Berlin 1881, p. 27, digitized
  8. ↑ According to a brief editorial report in the Altonaer Nachrichten of October 27, 1867 (page 2), Booth took over a delivery of large quantities of plants to “Zahlendorf” (= Berlin-Zehlendorf), the procurement of which took several years.
  9. ^ The introduction of foreign wood species into the Prussian state forests under Bismarck . P. 18, letter from Bismarck
  10. ↑ L. [udewig] W. [ittmack] : The cultures of Mr. J. Booth and the embellishments in the Grunewald near Berlin , in: Gartenflora , vol. 38, Parey Verlag, Berlin 1889, p. 472 f.
  11. ↑ Kurfürstendamm 114 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1890, part 2, p. 249.
  12. ^ Entry in the address book Berlin 1880: Lampe, J., Mechanik, Groß-Lichterfelde, Boothstr. 6, p. 533
  13. ↑ Membership List 1903 , in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 12, 1903, p. 133 (His name does not appear in the member lists of previous years. They were published annually.)
  14. ↑ Royal Prussian Order List 1877 , First Part, Berlin undated, p. 462
  15. ^ Staff and club news . In: Gartenflora , 40th year, Paul Parey, 1891, p. 31
  16. ↑ Carl Ansorge: About the introduction of foreign trees ... . In communications from the German Dendrological Society , No. 29, 1920, p. 276
  17. ↑ Emil Clausen † . In: L. Wittmack (Ed.): Gartenflora , 41st year, Paul Parey, Berlin 1892, pp. 13-14
  18. ↑ Biographies in the commemorative publications of the gardening school at the Wildpark near Potsdam in 1899, 1913 and 1924 . PDF . Excerpt p. 294–298: Administration and teaching staff of the institute 1824–1924, memorandum on the 100th anniversary of the Higher Gardening School Berlin-Dahlem , Frankfurt / O. 1924, list of former listeners and interns, there: 1864 p. 18 [150]
  19. ↑ C. Widmaier: Carl Ansorge for memory . In: Möllers Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung , No. 18, 1915 p. 148
  20. ↑ Woldemar Kein: Carl Ansorge (obituary), in: Mitteilungen der Deutschen Dendrologische Gesellschaft , No. 24, 1915, pp. 325–326
  21. ↑ Review: E. [Eduard] R. [Regel] . In: Gartenflora , 27th year (December), Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1878, p. 387
  22. ↑ Review: Gartenflora , Volume 32 (December), Ferdinand Enke, Stuttgart 1883 p. 379
  23. ^ Author Carl Ansorge is the son (1873–1964) of the father of the same name (1849–1915)

Web links

Wikisource: Communications of the German Dendrological Society  - Sources and full texts
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Wikisource: Hamburger Garten- und Blumenzeitung  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: The Garden World  - Sources and full texts
personal data
SURNAME Booth, John Cornelius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German arborist, entrepreneur and urban developer
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienstedten / Elbe
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1908
Place of death Groß-Lichterfelde