Woldemar Neubert

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Woldemar Arnd Heinz Neubert (born March 26, 1860 in Hamburg ; † December 31, 1918 there ) was a German commercial gardener and politician .

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Woldemar Neubert was the second oldest son of Emil Neubert . After an apprenticeship with Franz Kunze in Altenburg and the fruit and wood tree school of Julius Brecht in Ditzingen , he attended the training institute for horticulture, fruit cultivation and pomology in Reutlingen . He then went on a study trip through southern Germany and northern France . In July 1880 he was given a managerial position in his father's art and commercial gardening and took over the company in March 1895. The gardening company, which had around 10 employees at the time, traded as E. Neubert Wandsbek .

Woldemar Neubert modernized the company. He closed the nursery and concentrated on growing potted and ornamental plants. In 1889 Neubert offered lilies of the valley that he had grown himself for the first time and the dispatch of forcing germs. The gardener perfected a method developed by FW Böttcher, which enabled the flowering germs to be preserved in a cold store and thus for the first time to be grown all year round. Neubert set up his own network of suppliers that sold ice germs and young plants worldwide. Woldemar Neubert received numerous honors and awards, including the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 and the General Horticultural Exhibition in Hamburg in 1897. Neubert and his company were internationally known, Neubert himself was known as the "May flower king".

In addition to the may flowers , the gardener also offered drift lilacs , palms , azaleas and ferns . In 1901 he expanded the range to include Lorraine begonias that were modern at the time . In addition, he installed floating nurseries on ships from Hamburg Süd . These were small greenhouses and flower shops on board the ships. The cold rooms of the steamships enabled imports and exports between Hamburg and South America . Neubert employed up to 300 people, but had great economic difficulties in the international trade in ornamental plants during the First World War .

In addition to working as a gardener, Neubert was also politically active. From 1905 he was a city councilor for the city of Wandsbek and from 1910 a city councilor. Here he worked in the finance department and in the administration of the city's energy supply companies.

Woldemar Neubert died in late 1918 of the consequences of the Spanish flu .

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SURNAME Neubert, Woldemar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neubert, Woldemar Arnd Heinz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commercial gardener and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1860
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1918
Place of death Hamburg