Karl Hetzel (rose grower)

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Karl Hetzel (* 1923 ; † May 16, 2003 ) was a German rose breeder with the code HEL.

Life

Karl Hetzel was a trained electrical engineer. He lived in Beutelsbach and later in Oberderdingen and worked for some time in Sweden. From 1970 he dealt with the rose cultivation, where he tried in particular to produce resistant and hardy roses; In 1976 this leisure activity became a profession, a decade later Hetzel succeeded in breeding the first thornless rose, which earned him international recognition. He named this rose after the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria . The rose was baptized by the Swedish Queen Silvia in Gothenburg . He named other varieties after sports greats like Steffi Graf or after rose lovers and growers and horticultural specialists like Walter Rieger or the artist Otto Ludwig Kunz , who first illustrated a rose calendar in 1949. His rose princess Evi received the 3000th plant variety right title .

Karl Hetzel arranged for a rose garden to be laid out in Oberderdingen. The rose garden, which was laid out in 1993, houses around 800 roses of 60 different varieties. In 2001 the municipality of Oberderdingen honored Hetzel with the citizen medal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Deviating from this information, which can be found in many online sources, Roswitha names Raufuss in her book The Rose is not nameless. Rosenkunde in portraits . 2nd Edition. Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-0117-4 , p. 195 the year 1920 as the year of Hetzel's birth.
  2. ↑ SAFA. Volume 30. Hortus-Verlag, Bonn 1978, p. 20
  3. ↑ Article on Karl Hetzel on welt-der-rosen.de
  4. ↑ Oberderdinger rose garden
personal data
SURNAME Hetzel, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rose grower
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2003