CL Klissing son

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The nursery Carl Ludwig Klissing in Barth was a highly specialized agricultural company in German horticulture with a focus on growing vegetables and ornamental plants.

history

With a small vegetable nursery, the gardener Hermann Klissing (1762–1826) established a long family tradition in 1818, which was initially based on local horticultural species, seed cultivation and commercial plants. It was not until his son Carl Ludwig Klissing (1818–1878) experimented with the ornamental plant Kaladie, which came from South America, and made the small horticultural company known beyond Barth. In 1869 Hermann Klissing jun. Took over. (1841–1925) managed the family business. Under his leadership, the nursery also acquired a good reputation outside of Germany, because with the cultivation of greenhouse and outdoor plants, seed cultivation, seed trade and flower making, around 550 varieties of caladia and many dahlia bulbs were shipped all over the world. The nursery's dahlia cultivation had already received an award at the International Horticultural Exhibition in Hamburg in 1869 . His son Carl Ludwig Klissing jun. whose special love was for the succulent plants, especially the cacti , was on friendly terms with the director of the Botanical Garden in Rostock, Hugo Baum . In 1925, the Klissing nursery financed Baum's expedition to Mexico, which in return for the nursery brought local plants with it. Later orders to Hans Wilhelm Viereck, a German plant collector in Mexico, made "Carl Ludwig Klissing and Son" from Barth a special address for cacti and other succulents recognized worldwide. Carl Ludwig Klissing was an active member of the German Dendrological Society since 1911 .

After the war, the nursery was expropriated and continued as "VEG Saatzucht und Zierpflanzen Barth" in the GDR . Under state management, the company was massively expanded from 1970 onwards and by 1989 the VEG (nationally owned estate) had a total of 278,210 m² of gross glass area. With up to 731 employees, the estate was the largest horticultural company in Germany. In Barth, cloves and pelargoniums were mainly grown. Furthermore, cut flowers, seeds, vegetables as well as young and potted plants were produced not only for the GDR, but also for export to the Soviet Union, Hungary, Sweden and the Federal Republic of Germany. After 1989, several independent, market-oriented companies emerged from the state-owned estate.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter A. Mansfeld: Hugo Baum - The life story of a German botanist . 2nd Edition. BoD, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-8448-1463-7 , p. 74-82 .
  2. ↑ Communications of the German Dendrological Society: (Yearbook 1911) issues 20–21, p. 496. | (on-line)

literature

  • The Cactus Journal . Vol. 2, 1933/34, issue 3, back cover.
  • The heirs of Jühlke, Klissing and the largest horticultural company in the GDR. In: Barther Zeitung. April 15, 2005. ( online )
  • Angela Pfennig: Princely garden dreams - palaces and gardens in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania . Ed .: Melanie Ehler. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-931836-88-6 , p. 152-155 .

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