Theodor III. Riveter

Theodor Nietner , also Theodor III. Nietner (born March 7, 1905 in Potsdam , † August 2, 1988 in Wolfsburg ) was a German gardener and head of the garden and cemetery office in Osnabrück . He came from two court gardening dynasties who had been in royal Prussian service for generations.

Life

Theodor Nietner was one of three children of the court gardener in the Babelsberg Park, Kurt Nietner and Katharina, called Käthe (1879–1973), daughter of the court garden director Gustav II Adolph Fintelmann . Like his father, his mother came from a court gardening dynasty .

Following the family tradition, he trained as a gardener and completed his apprenticeship on the Pfaueninsel with head gardener Paul Böhme (1861-1935) and in the " Späth'schen Baumschulen " of Hellmut Späth in Berlin-Baumschulenweg . After his apprenticeship, he worked as an assistant in the large nursery and seed shop Pfitzer in Fellbach near Stuttgart and then in the administration of the Fürst-Pückler-Park in Muskau . This two-year teaching and assistant period was a prerequisite for admission to the Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture (LuFA) in Berlin-Dahlem . After successfully completing the “State Certified Horticultural Technician” (1st state examination), he worked for the municipal gardening director Hermann Kube (1866-1944) in Hanover.

When his father died in January 1929, Theodor Nietner returned to Potsdam and from July of the same year got a job in the gardening department of the “ Administration of State Palaces and Gardens ” with gardening director Georg Potente . After the end of the monarchy, Potente, to whom the Sanssouci park area was subordinate, was responsible for the artistic restoration of the Frederician park parts, which had been reshaped several times in 150 years of garden history, in addition to constant and varied maintenance . Theodor Nietner supported him with his garden monument care planning and especially with the associated drawing work. During the 7 years he worked with him, he created the main part of the drawings, which in the way of the plan representation [...] had become more factual, more sober and simpler than those of his predecessors or those of Potente. In 1931 he passed the second state examination as a "state-certified horticultural inspector" and in October 1936 moved to Hanover-Herrenhausen .

In the same year, extensive restoration work began on the neglected Great Garden , which the City of Hanover had acquired from the Guelphs in 1936 . The planning was mainly dealt with by the municipal garden department under the direction of the city gardening director Hermann Wernicke (1887–1950), whom Potente had previously advised on gardening issues. Nietner, who was originally only to be loaned to Herrenhausen , was entrusted in 1938 with the expansion work of the Ricklinger Friedhof , which was administered by the garden department and was under the direction of the city garden inspector Johannes Balcke. Shortly before the beginning of the Second World War, in spring 1939 he was given the management of the cemetery office in Osnabrück, where he was head of the combined garden and cemetery office from 1950 until his retirement in 1970.

See also

Family tree of the gardener family Nietner (excerpt)

literature

• Jörg Wacker: Georg Potente (1876–1945). The development from garden designer to garden monument curator between 1902 and 1938 in Potsdam-Sanssouci. Dissertation of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Potsdam, October 2003, p. 205 ( digital (PDF; 769 kB), accessed on July 11, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ To distinguish between his great-grandfather Theodor I. Nietner and his grandfather Theodor II. Nietner , a Roman three is sometimes added to the name. Theodor III cf. Family tree of the gardener family Nietner. In: SPSG: Prussian Green. Court gardener in Brandenburg-Prussia . 2004.
2. ^ Foundation Prussian Palaces and Gardens Berlin-Brandenburg: Nothing thrives without care. The Potsdam park landscape and its gardeners . Potsdam / Berlin 2001, p. 269.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Wacker: Georg Potente . Dissertation, p. 205.
4. ^ Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover . Wallstein, 2006, p. 36.
5. ^ Wacker: Georg Potente . Dissertation, p. 20.
6. ↑ Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) And a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 587.