Kartz from Kameke-Streckenthin

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Kartz von Kameke auf Streckenthin (today Strzekęcino ) (* 1866 , † 1942 ) was a potato breeder who founded potato cultivation in Western Pomerania . The cultivation of the Parnassia potato variety goes back to him , which temporarily took up 30 percent of the potato cultivation area in Germany.

Life

Kartz von Kameke came from the Pomeranian noble family von Kameke .

In 1897 Kartz von Kameke-Streckenthin took over management of several family estates in the Köslin district . He expanded the family property to include other goods until after the First World War the goods covered an area of ​​around 6000 hectares with 3000 hectares of arable land .

Around 1900, Kartz von Kameke-Streckenthin specifically cultivated different types of potatoes for comparison. As early as 1906 the testing station could be converted into a breeding station and the actual breeding operation began in Streckenthin . Here " Parnassia " was born. With a particularly high resistance to potato rot and an extremely high starch content, this variety later took up 30% of the potato cultivation area in Germany. The breakthrough came with the turnip winter in World War I, when other potato varieties fell victim to potato rot. In the 1920s, the Kartz von Kameke-Streckenthins company supplied about 56% of the potato-growing areas of the German Reich with its seeds.

By 1930, all of the large German potato growers with breeding stations had settled in Western Pomerania with Streckenthin as their center. Western Pomerania became the center of seed potato cultivation. Subsequently, other potato varieties were bred in Streckenthien , such as Deodara (1914), Hindenburg (1916), Centifolia (1919), Pepo (1919) or Rubia (1922). In order to be able to legally protect his breeding successes, von Kameke co-founded the "Association of Original Potato Growers" (VOK) and became chairman of the association.

On his 70th birthday in 1936, Kartz von Kameke handed the business over to the youngest of his four sons, Dobimar.

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SURNAME Kameke-Streckenthin, Kartz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kameke, Kartz from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German potato grower
DATE OF BIRTH 1866
DATE OF DEATH 1942