 The German government at the time appointed him as botanist in the territory, a position he held until 1914 with the outbreak of World War I.

Dinter experimented with growing various species of exotics and indigenous trees - first at Brakwater near Windhoek and later at Okahandja - Cypresses, Eucalypts and Acacia erioloba.In the Herero Wars he lost most of his personal effects and about half of his plant collection.He visited Germany in 1905 and donated the remainder of his collection to Berlin-Dahlem.