William Heinrich Adolf Tatter

William Heinrich Adolf Tatter (* 1823 ; † 1897 ) was a German court gardener and author.

Life

William Heinrich Adolf Tatter was a member of the garden master and court gardener family Tatter, known since the first half of the 17th century, and a son of Wilhelm Heinrich Tatter .

Tatter was born at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover and attended the court school in the royal seat . From 1841 onwards he trained with the botanist and horticulturist Heinrich Ludolph Wendland in the Herrenhausen Gardens . In 1844 Tatter went to Linden and worked in the kitchen garden there . Later he turned to Potsdam to gain experience in the Melonerie of Sanssouci Palace . In 1847 he went on study trips through Europe.

In 1848 Tatter worked as an assistant in Kew Gardens in London, then made further trips through England, Scotland and Ireland. Finally he made his first garden plans, including one for the Villa Hügel of the Alfred Krupp family in Essen .

In 1854 Tatter worked again in the kitchen garden in Linden, this time as director. In 1861 he wrote a book on fruit forcing practice .

After the annexation of the Kingdom of Hanover by Prussia , Tatter was appointed court gardener in 1869, then from 1879 as head gardener in the Great Garden of Herrenhausen. In the Herrenhausen Gardens , William Heinrich Adolf Tatter did a great job preserving the hedges and the Herrenhausen Allee .

Tatter's son Georg Tatter initially also had a career as a court gardener.

Fonts

The practical fruit forcing in greenhouses, forcing boxes and hotbeds, as well as in talut walls. With 46 images printed in the text, edited for the practical gardener by W. Tatter, Königl. Hannoverscher Hofgärtner , Hamburg: Robert Kittler, 1861
Instructions for fruit forcing. With 72 images printed in the text / by W. Tatter, royal court gardener in Herrenhausen near Hanover , Stuttgart: Ulmer; Ravensburg: Maier, 1879

literature

Heike Palm, Hubert Rettich: The orangery gardener Georg Ernst Tatter and his sons. The working and living environment of a Hanoverian court gardener family of the 18th century. In: Arbeitskreis Orangerie in Deutschland (Ed.): "From the orangery ..." and other garden stories. Festschrift for Heinrich Hamann. Potsdam 2002, pp. 140-170
Hubert Rettich, Michael Rohde: Great gardeners Herrenhausen. In: Marieanne von König (Ed.): Herrenhausen. The Royal Gardens in Hanover . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8353-0053-8 , p. 271 and others. ( limited preview in Google Book search)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d o.V. : Tatter, William Heinrich Adolf in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 3, 2012, last accessed on January 29, 2017
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Helmut Knocke : Tatter. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 616f.

personal data
SURNAME	Tatter, William Heinrich Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Royal Hanoverian Oberhof gardener
DATE OF BIRTH	1823
DATE OF DEATH	1897

[GWLB-1] .V. : Tatter, William Heinrich Adolf in the database of Niedersächsische Personen (new entry required) of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Library - Lower Saxony State Library in the version of April 3, 2012, last accessed on January 29, 2017

[SLH_Tatter-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Helmut Knocke : Tatter. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 616f.