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Lehren 1910 – 2010 · Teaching 1910 – 2010<br />
The Training of Gardeners<br />
The training of gardeners at the Botanic Garden, which certainly<br />
took place in the first years in Dahlem and then continuously from<br />
1965 till today, is not nearly as well documented as academic<br />
teaching. In view of the unusually rich stock of living plants, particularly<br />
from the tropics, it offered and still offers a qualification<br />
the like of which is only possible in a few places throughout the<br />
world. Such a comprehensive training was and is necessary, however,<br />
only for those wishing to work in other botanical gardens.<br />
This led to the development of a wider network of gardens, but one<br />
that has not thus far been comparatively studied.<br />
A document from June 1907 concerning the ‘hiring of gardeners<br />
for service in the African and South Pacific protectorates’ reveals<br />
that preferential consideration was given to applicants ‘who had<br />
been active for a time in the office for tropical cultures at the Royal<br />
Botanic Garden in Berlin’. However, the candidates ‘could not<br />
choose where they wanted to go, but had to go where they were<br />
needed’.<br />
Thus it was not just the botanists who had their networks; the<br />
gardeners had their own networks too. There was, however, a serious<br />
difference: while permanently employed scientists only rarely<br />
left Dahlem and only <strong>und</strong>er exceptional circumstances, for example<br />
in order to become full professor at another university, in the case<br />
of gardeners who had trained here, it was the rule. HWL<br />
Aufforderung zum Dienstantritt eines Gärtners. BGBM, Archiv.<br />
Mitteilung betreffend Gehilfenstellen im Botanischen <strong>Garten</strong>.<br />
Aus: Die <strong>Garten</strong>bauwirtschaft Nr. 43, vom 23. 10. 1930.<br />
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