List of pomologists

The list of pomologists represents a listing of known members of this group. Pomology is the study of the types and varieties of fruit and their systematic classification and determination. The list does not claim to be complete.

Born until 1799

	Name (life data)	Research area
	Gottfried of Franconia * before 1300	Master Gottfried von Franken was a Franconian author on horticultural topics. His fur book about the refinement of fruit trees, written around 1350, was with almost 80 copies one of the most powerful appearances in old German specialist literature and was also valued abroad.
	Andrei Timofejewitsch Bolotow * October 18, 1738 in Dworjaninowo † October 16, 1833 ibid	Bolotov was a Russian agronomist. He discovered the dichogamy of apple trees, showed the advantages of cross-pollination and worked out a pomological system that included more than 600 apple and pear varieties.
	Johann Ludwig Christ * October 18, 1739 in Öhringen † November 19, 1813 in Kronberg im Taunus	Christ was a pastor and beekeeper. He published books on fruit growing and beekeeping as well as the pomological practical hand dictionary and the complete pomology .
	Richard Cox * around 1776 † May 20, 1845 in Colnbrook	Cox was an English brewer and gardener. He is the breeder of the apple varieties Cox Orange and Cox Pomona .
	August Friedrich Adrian Diel * February 4, 1756 in Gladenbach † April 22, 1839 in Diez	August Friedrich Adrian Diel grew numerous types of fruit. He wrote important works on the systematics of fruit trees, which laid the foundation for the rise of pomology in the 19th century.
	Johann Georg Dittrich * April 11, 1783 in Gotha † March 10, 1842 in Gotha	Dittrich wrote several books on fruit growing. He explained a method of growing sturdy fruit trees, and thereby initiated a boom in German fruit tree cultivation.
	Friedrich Wilhelm Donauer * October 4, 1788 in Thurnau † March 5, 1870 in Coburg	Donauer was an active member of the Pomological Association. According to him, Donauer Renette named.
	Carl Julius Fintelmann * September 20, 1794 in Berlin † June 24, 1866 in Charlottenburg	Fintelmann was a court gardener who mainly worked in Potsdam and was one of the founding members of the German Pomologists' Association in 1860 .
	Gustav von Flotow * January 8, 1789 in Bayreuth † April 29, 1864 in Dresden	von Flotow was a Saxon administrative officer. He produced numerous descriptions of the varieties, which were published in the Illustrated Handbook of Fruit Studies, and tried to spread fruit varieties in Saxony that were adapted to the regional climate.
	Johann Evangelist Fürst * December 28, 1784 in Frauendorf near Vilshofen † November 11, 1846 in Au	Fürst was a Bavarian customs officer, entrepreneur and author. He expanded his farm in Frauendorf into a model agricultural estate, founded the Practical Horticultural Society in Bavaria in Frauendorf and founded the journal Der Obstbaumfreund .
	Friedrich Justinian von Günderrode * February 1, 1765 in Frankfurt am Main † November 11, 1845 in Darmstadt	Friedrich Justinian von Günderrode was a German lawyer, privy councilor and judge. He is the author of the first monograph on plum varieties.
	Carl Ludwig Anton Maria Harbert * October 10, 1771 in Arnsberg † July 11, 1832 in Arnsberg	Harbert discovered the apple variety Harberts Renette named after him around 1830 .
	Samuel David Ludwig Henne * September 29, 1712 in Gunsleben † December 31, 1780 in Gunsleben	Henne was a pastor and ran a fruit tree nursery. He wrote one of the first books on fruit growing.
	Alexis Lepère the Elder * May 9, 1799 in Montreuil † May 29, 1883 ibid	Lepère was a fruit grower from Montreuil. He developed a special cutting and cultivation method for peach trees.
	Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld * February 16, 1742 in Kirchnüchel † February 20, 1792 in Kiel	Hirschfeld was a well-known garden theorist. He was the director of the royal Danish fruit tree nursery in Kiel and is the author of the two-volume manual of fruit tree cultivation published in 1788 .
	Vincenz Hlava * 1782 † 1849	Hlava was a Bohemian forest clerk who, because of his pomological knowledge, became a member of the K. uk Moravian-Silesian Economic Society.
	Constantin Keller * April 18, 1778 in Graz † September 4, 1864 Gröbming	Keller was an Austrian pastor and promoter of fruit growing. He represented all Upper Austrian types of fruit as wax models.
	Johann Klör * April 16, 1751 in Leutershausen , Hohenroth † March 18, 1818 in Würzburg	Fruit growers, beekeepers, linen weavers and small farmers and as a pomologist temporarily commissioned to train and inspect teachers in the management of school gardens
	Thomas Andrew Knight * August 12, 1759 in Ludlow † May 11, 1838 in London	Knight was a British botanist and pomologist. He is the author of Pomona Herfordiensis, a book on fruit from the Herefordshire region .
	Johann Hermann Knoop * probably 1706 near Kassel, probably † August 4, 1769 in Amsterdam	Knoop was a Dutch gardener. He is the author of the books "Pomologia" (1758) and "Fructologia" (1763) and is therefore considered the founder of pomology.
	Carl Friedrich Kotschy * January 26, 1789 in Teschen † February 9, 1856 in Ustroń	Kotschy was an Austrian Protestant theologian and botanist. In 1848/49 he was a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly. He was a member of the Van Mons pomological society in Brussels.
	Ludolph Friedrich Freiherr von Laffert * December 31, 1757 in Celle † December 5, 1808	Laffert was the founder of the Laffert plantation with fruit trees and rare North American tree species.
	Georg Liegel * May 3, 1779 in a sheep farm near Waldmünchen † September 6, 1862 in Braunau am Inn	Liegel was a pharmacist and pomologist who specialized in collecting stone fruit varieties and who cultivated many regional varieties of plums.
	Friedrich Lindemann * March 10, 1792 in Jöhstadt † June 15, 1854 in Boppard	Lindemann was a founding member of the German Pomologists Association. For the latter, he published the magazine “Opora” and the “Obstzuchtbüchlein”.
	John Lindley * February 5, 1799 in Catton, Norfolk † November 1, 1865 in Acton Green, Middlesex	Lindley was an English botanist. He is the author of the book Pomologia Britannica .
	Friedrich Carl Emil von der Lühe * March 4, 1751 † March 9, 1801 in Vienna	As a member of the government, Lühe took care of fruit growing and set up a tree nursery.
	Heinrich Ludwig Manger * July 31, 1728 in Kitzscher near Leipzig † April 30, 1790 in Potsdam	Manger was a royal Prussian chief building officer and gardening inspector and master builder. He is the author of the two-volume book Complete Guide to a Systematic Pomology , in which the apple and pear varieties known at the time are listed in a table.
	Johann Prokop Mayer * July 2, 1737 in Schmeczna, Bohemia † July 25, 1804 in Würzburg	Mayer was a pleasure and flower gardener known throughout Europe. Between 1776 and 1801 he published the pomological textbook Pomona Franconica .
	Johann Christian Metzger * October 11, 1789 in Lahr † September 15, 1852 in Bad Wildbad	Metzger was a German landscape architect. He was president of the fruit-growing section of the assemblies of German wine and fruit producers and has published books on the subject of fruit-growing and wine-growing as well as on the pome fruit varieties in southern Germany.
	Jean-Baptiste van Mons * November 11, 1765 in Brussels † September 6, 1842 in Leuven	Van Mons was a Belgian botanist, agronomist and gardener. He was a distinguished fruit grower who bred more than 40 types of pear.
	Franz Hermann Müschen * May 9, 1774 in Boizenburg / Elbe † February 27, 1847 in Belitz	Müschen was a German teacher and cantor. In 1802 he set up the first fruit tree nursery in Mecklenburg. The apple variety Müschen's rose apple is named in his honor.
	Johann Georg Conrad Oberdieck * August 30, 1794 in Wilkenburg † February 24, 1880 in Herzberg am Harz	Oberdieck was a Protestant pastor. In his tree nursery, he cultivated more than 4000 types of fruit on multi-variety trees. He was co-author of the Illustrirten Handbuch der Obstkunde and co-editor of the Pomological monthly books . The Oberdieck Prize of the Pomologists Association is named after him today.
	Pierre Antoine Poiteau * March 23, 1766 in Ambleny near Soissons † February 27, 1854 in Paris	Poiteau was head of the royal nursery at Versailles. As a draftsman he provided many excellent illustrations of various types of fruit.
	Mathias Rössler * 1754 † 1829 in Podiebrad	Rössler was a Bohemian pastor. He is the author of the book Pomona Bohemica , a tabular list of types of fruit.
	Josef Schmidberger * November 4, 1773 in Urfahr near Linz † August 10, 1844 in St. Florian	Schmidberger was an Augustinian canon who dealt with the breeding and refinement of types of fruit. In particular, he researched the pests of fruit trees and was one of the first to recognize that the pests have natural enemies in other animal species, particularly the parasitic wasps .
	Johann Volkmar Sickler * January 19, 1742 in Günthersleben † March 31, 1820 in Kleinfahner	Sickler was a German pomologist. He was editor of the pomological magazine Der teutsche Obstgärtner and the Allgemeine Teutsche Gartenmagazin . Together with FJ Bertuch , Sickler brought out a collection of lifelike model fruits of pome, stone and shell fruit varieties.
	Christian Truchseß von Wetzhausen * June 21, 1755 in Bundorf Palace † February 19, 1826 at Bettenburg Palace	Von Wetzhausen was a well-known cherry grower; he determined the cherry weeks based on the ripening time of the earliest of the marrow .
	Caspar Tobias Zollikofer * May 16, 1774 at Bürglen Castle † December 6, 1843 in St. Gallen	Zollikofer was a Swiss pharmacist and naturalist. He also dealt with fruit growing in Eastern Switzerland and produced watercolors of 200 apple and pear varieties between 1831 and 1834.

Born 1800 to 1899

	Name (life data)	Research area
	Korbinian Aigner * May 11, 1885 in Hohenpolding † October 5, 1966 in Freising	Aigner was a Bavarian Catholic pastor and pomologist. Aigner grew apple trees in the Dachau concentration camp, one of which was later named Korbinian apple in his honor. He made watercolor pictures of almost 800 apple and pear varieties.
	Heinrich Graf von Attems-Petzenstein * November 28, 1834 in St. Florian † August 11, 1909 in Graz	Von Attems-Petzenstein was an Austrian major who, after his retirement, made a name for himself in gardening and fruit growing. He was the owner and founder of the seed culture station in St. Peter near Graz and is the author of the book Österreichs Obstbau.
	Charles Balten * January 14, 1830 in Troyes † November 24, 1908 in Troyes	Balten was a French nursery owner. He is the author of numerous books on fruit growing and pruning.
	Alexander Bode * December 20, 1860 in Trebnitz near Könnern † February 13, 1920 in Chemnitz	Bode was a German gardener and educator. He had a considerable influence on the improvement of fruit growing and horticulture in the Erzgebirge cities and communities and created new employment opportunities for the population.
	Curt von Bose * March 1, 1808 in Radibor near Bautzen † November 10, 1884 in disgrace near Löbau	von Bose was a German lawyer, bee scientist and pomologist. He was the editor of the Pomologische Hefte , which only appeared in two volumes.
	Casimir von Brzeziński * 1866 † 1937	From 1900, von Brzeziński was head of the State Pomological Institute in Salishchyky (Galicia).
	Carl G. Dahl * 1875 † 1959	Dahl was a Swedish gardener and pomologist.
	Charles Downing * July 9, 1802 in Newburgh † January 18, 1885 in Newburgh	Downing was an American gardener, pomologist, and author.
	George M. Darrow * 1889 in Springfield (Vermont) † 1983 in Maryland	Darrow was a pomologist and specialist in strawberries and their culture
	Friedrich Jakob Dochnahl * March 4, 1820 in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse † July 18, 1904 there	Dochnahl was a German gardener and tree nursery owner. He set up his own pomological system for fruit and grape varieties and was editor of the magazine Pomona. General German magazine for all fruit and wine growing .
	Albrecht Eyring * October 19, 1844 in Oberlauringen † 1920 in Würzburg	Eyring was a German Protestant pastor, pomologist and founder of the Bavarian fruit and horticultural associations.
	Olof Eneroth * April 15, 1825 in Brannkyra near Stockholm † May 21, 1881 in Uppsala	Eneroth was a Swedish pomologist. He is the author of the book Handbok i Svensk pomologie .
	Theodor Engelbrecht * January 18, 1813 on the Monplaisir farm in Halchter near Wolfenbüttel † August 4, 1892 in Braunschweig	Engelbrecht was a German medic. He suggested the establishment of the Pomological State Institute in Braunschweig and from 1870 to 1878 was the editor of the communications of the fruit growing station of the agricultural Central Association of the Duchy of Braunschweig . He was a founding director of the German Pomologists Association .
	Gustav I. Adolph Fintelmann * June 30, 1803 in Berlin † March 1, 1871 in Charlottenhof , Sanssouci Park , Potsdam	Fintelmann was a court gardener in Paretz, in Sanssouci Park and on Pfaueninsel. In the Paris suburb of Montreuil, he went to the peach gardener Alexis Lepère the Elder. Ä. instruct you in the cultivation of particularly fine table fruit, the so-called "French fruit growing". He was a member of the German Pomologists Association .
	Heinrich von Friesen-Rötha * May 23, 1831 in Dresden † October 5, 1910 in Rötha	Von Friesen-Rötha was a Saxon landowner. He founded a tree nursery, a fruit growing school, a fruit growing company and a fruit processing company. He bequeathed his extensive collection of pomological works to the library of the German Pomologists Association.
	Adalbert Nikolaus Fuchs * June 5, 1814 on the Wieden near Vienna † January 7, 1886 in Kritzendorf	Fuchs was the permanent secretary of the "kk Landwirthschaftsgesellschaft" in Vienna and was instrumental in the development of the Klosterneuburg Viticulture School, today's Higher Federal School and Federal Office for Viticulture and Fruit Growing Klosterneuburg .
	Nicolas Gaucher * January 17, 1846 in Saricourt † January 21, 1911 in Stuttgart	Gaucher was a French pomologist and nursery owner. He published books on the topic of fruit tree pruning and processing and is considered the founder of shaped fruit growing in Germany.
	Hermann Goethe * March 16, 1837 in Naumburg an der Saale † May 12, 1911 in Baden near Vienna	Goethe was a specialist in viticulture, pomology and oenology. He was head of the pomological gardens of the consul general Heinrich Eduard von Lade in Geisenheim, from which the Royal Prussian Institute for Fruit and Viticulture and later the Research Institute for Horticulture and Viticulture emerged in 1872 . Goethe was the founding director of the viticulture school in Marburg an der Drau (today Maribor). He published several papers on ampelography .
	Rudolf Goethe * April 13, 1843 in Naumburg an der Saale † January 16, 1911 in Darmstadt	Goethe was a German gardener. He was a graduate of Eduard Lucas's Pomological Institute . Goethe was director of the Royal Prussian Institute for Fruit Growing and Viticulture in Geisenheim, which he expanded to include several institutes during his tenure. He was the editor of communications on fruit and horticulture and the magazine Weinbau und Kellerwirtschaft and author of a handbook on table grape culture.
	Carl Hesselmann * September 9, 1830 in Menden near Mülheim an der Ruhr † March 25, 1902 in Witzhelden	Hesselmann was a primary school teacher and tree nursery operator in the Bergisches Land. He found an (apparently) chance seedling, the fruits of which he presented to Kaiser Wilhelm I for a taste test in 1875 . He then agreed to use his name for the Kaiser Wilhelm apple variety . Pomologists already noticed the similarity with the local variety Peter Broich, which is widespread around Cologne-Aachen . This assumption has now been confirmed by genetic comparison.
	Franz Jahn * January 17, 1806 in Meiningen † February 15, 1867 in Meiningen	Jahn was a pharmacist from Meiningen. He was a proven connoisseur of fruit varieties and the editor of the Illustrirten Handbuch der Obstkunde .
	Emil Otto Oskar von Kirchner * September 15, 1851 in Breslau † April 25, 1925 in Venice	Von Kirchner was a German botanist and phytomedicist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is "Kirchn.".
	Knud Knudsen * January 3, 1832 in Odda , Norway † May 21, 1915 in Bergen , Norway	Knudsen was a Norwegian photographer and pomologist. He founded one of the first tree nurseries in Norway, where he also grew foreign fruit varieties.
	Fritz Kobel * May 10, 1896 in Schleumen ( Canton of Bern ) † February 12, 1981 in Wädenswil near Zurich	Kobel was a Swiss fruit, wine, vegetable and horticultural scientist. He was director of the Federal Research Institute for Fruit, Viticulture and Horticulture in Wädenswil. He researched the problems of fertilization and fruit formation in fruit growing and published a book about the cherry varieties in German-speaking Switzerland.
	Karl Heinrich Koch * June 6, 1809 in Ettersberg near Weimar † May 25, 1879 in Berlin	Koch was a German botanist. In 1860 he was a founding member of the German Pomologists Association , which he chaired for many years. Koch later fell out with the association because he advocated a reduction in the variety of varieties, while other leading pomologists at that time were still promoting variety.
	Heinrich Eduard von Lade * February 24, 1817 in Geisenheim im Rheingau † August 7, 1904 there	Von Lade was a German banker, gardener, plant breeder and amateur astronomer. The management of his pomological gardens was temporarily with Hermann Goethe . He was the founder and sponsor of the Royal Prussian Institute for Fruit and Viticulture Geisenheim, which later became the Research Institute for Fruit and Viticulture .
	Christian Eduard Langethal * January 6, 1806 in Erfurt † July 28, 1878 in Jena	Langethal was a German crop scientist, botanist and agricultural historian. He is the editor of the improved edition of the German Fruit Cabinet, which appeared from 1853 to 1864.
	Eduard Lange * September 10, 1803 in Reust † April 17, 1868 in Altenburg	Eduard Lange was a teacher and school councilor. He published numerous specialist articles on fruit growing in the Pomological monthly magazine .
	Wilhelm Lauche * May 21, 1827 in Gartow † September 12, 1883	Lauche was a German gardener and dendrologist. He was the director of the Royal State Tree Nursery and Horticultural College near Potsdam and managing director of the German Pomologists Association . He had natural model fruits made for a "Pomological Cabinet" and is the author of the book German Pomology .
	Julius August Lencer * August 25, 1833 in Hastrungsfeld † May 10, 1903 in Bittstädt	Lencer was a German composer, teacher, and botanist. He ran a tree nursery and is the author of a book to impart knowledge about fruit growing at school.
	Alexis Lepère the Younger * in Montreuil † August 11, 1896 in Montreuil	Lepère was a fruit grower from Montreuil. In Germany he built several facilities for cultivating fine types of fruit on walls.
	André Leroy * August 30, 1801 in Angers † 1875	Leroy was a French nursery owner. He built up what was then the largest tree nursery in Europe, where he offered 1,050 pear and 600 apple varieties. He is the author of the four-volume Dictionnaire de pomologie .
	Josef Löschnig * 1872 in Altendorf b. St. Johann am Draufelde † 1949 in Vienna	Löschnig was an Austrian oenologist and pomologist.
	Alwin Lorgus * November 9, 1852 in Stralsund † March 18, 1920 in Eisenach	Lorgus was the royal gardening inspector, pomologist and long-time chairman of the German Fruit Growing Society (DOG) and the forerunner of this society, the German Pomologist Association .
	Eduard Lucas * July 19, 1816 in Erfurt † July 24, 1882 in Reutlingen	Lucas founded the private school for horticulture, fruit culture and pomology in Reutlingen. He was the managing director of the German Pomologists Association he founded and, together with Oberdieck, publisher of the monthly pomological papers .
	Erich Otto Heinrich Maurer * December 5, 1884 in Gohlis near Dresden † April 28, 1981 in Berlin	Maurer was a German horticultural and fruit growing scientist. He was director of the Späth tree nursery and later director of the Institute for Horticultural Plant Production at the Agricultural University in Berlin . He dedicated himself to the selection of frost-resistant fruit bases .
	Friedrich Medicus * June 28, 1813 in Landshut † December 18, 1893 in Wiesbaden	Medicus was director of the Agricultural Institute of the Geisberg estate. Together with Eduard Lucas he published from the 2nd edition in 1862 his standard work The theory of fruit growing based on simple laws .
	Henri Michelin * 1809/10 † June 27, 1898 in Paris	Michelin was a French pomologist, secretary of the Arboriculture Committee of the Société nationale d'horticulture de France and a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
	Ivan Wladimirowitsch Michurin * October 27, 1855 in Ryazan Governorate † June 7, 1935 in Michurinsk	Michurin was a Russian pomologist, botanist, and plant breeder.
	Stanisław Konstanty Pietruski * 1811 † 1874	Pietruski was a Galician ornithologist, entomologist, and pomologist.
	Alberto Piròvano * March 7, 1884 in Vaprio d'Adda † February 23, 1973 in Rome	Piròvano was a pomologist and professor at the Istituto di Frutticoltura ed Elettrogenetica di Roma in Rome.
	Josef Eduard Proche * 1822 † 1908 in Sloupno nad Cidlinou
	Eduard August von Regel (Russian Эдуард Людвигович Регель) * August 13, 1815 in Gotha † April 27 (Julian April 15) 1892 in Saint Petersburg	Von Regel was a German gardener and botanist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is "Rule".
	Wilhelm Seelig * June 2, 1821 in Kassel † July 31, 1906 in Kiel	In addition to his work as a politician, Seelig dealt with horticulture and pomology. An apple variety is named after him.
	Otto Schmitz-Hübsch * February 26, 1868 at the Winnenthal manor near Xanten † November 2, 1950 in Merten near Bonn	Schmitz-Hübsch was a German fruit growing pioneer and breeder. He established fruit growing as a branch of the economy in Germany, developed the fruit tree shapes that are used around the world today with the branch tree and spindle bush and discovered the Red Boskoop apple variety .
	Francis Peabody Sharp * September 3, 1823 in Northampton , New Brunswick † December 12, 1903 in Woodstock	Sharp was a Canadian fruit grower and nursery owner. Through targeted attempts at crossbreeding, he cultivated types of fruit that were adapted to the harsh climate of his home region. He is the breeder of the Sharps New Brunswick and Crimson Beauty apple varieties.
	Paul Sorauer * June 9, 1839 in Breslau † January 9, 1916 in Berlin	Sorauer was a German botanist and phytomedicist. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is "Sorauer". From 1872 to 1893 Sorauer was head of the plant physiological research station at the Royal Pomological Institute in Proskau (Upper Silesia).
	Václav Stříbrný * April 15, 1853 in Lidice † June 8, 1933 in Sofia	Václav Stříbrný was a Czech botanist and pomologist.
	Franz Ludwig Späth * February 25, 1839 in Berlin † February 2, 1913 in Britz	Späth was a gardener, botanist and owner of a tree nursery in the Berlin- Baumschulenweg district . Together with his father Ludwig Späth, he was one of the founders of the German Pomologists Association in 1860 .
	Jan ten Doornkaat Koolman * October 1, 1815 in Norden † April 17, 1889 ibid	Ten Doornkaat Koolman was an entrepreneur, pomologist and member of the German Reichstag.
	Rudolf Trenkle * 1881 † 1968	Trenkle was a Bavarian senior government councilor and head of the Weihenstephan fruit growing institute .
	Diedrich Uhlhorn junior * December 20, 1843 in Grevenbroich † November 9, 1915 there	Uhlhorn was a German engineer and fruit grower. He is the breeder of the apple varieties from Zuccalmaglios Renette , Goldrenette Freiherr von Berlepsch and Ernst Bosch .
	Eugen Ulmer * July 30, 1837 in Nürtingen † January 2, 1917 in Stuttgart	Ulmer was the son of a pharmacist. In 1868 he took over a pomological publishing house , which he continued under his name.
	Charles Fortuné Willermoz * March 6, 1804 in Coligny † October 6, 1879 in Champagne-au-Mont-d'Or	Willermoz was the founder of the Société d'horticulture practique du Rhône and editor of the eight-volume Pomologie de la France.
	Richard Zorn * March 7, 1860 in Groß Schierstedt † March 3, 1945	Richard Zorn was the first to intensively cultivate dessert fruit. He was temporarily a member of the board of directors of the pomologists' association, in which he was considered an excellent connoisseur of varieties.
	Theodor Zschokke * August 14, 1868 in Gontenschwil † August 9, 1951 there	Theodor Zschokke was a Swiss naturalist and pomologist. From 1902 employee of the research institute for fruit growing, viticulture and horticulture in Wädenswil. 1920 head of the fruit growing department. Author of the Swiss fruit picture works.

Born from 1900

	Name (life data)	Research area
	Hans-Joachim Bannier * 1957	Bannier is an expert in old apple and sweet cherry varieties. In his fruit museum on the slope of the Teutoburg Forest near Bielefeld, he cultivates 350 different apple varieties.
	Anton Bauer * July 4, 1931 † November 4, 2014	Bauer collected and tended over 400 different types of apples and around 200 other types of fruit. It stood up for the preservation of the life's work of Korbinian Aigner and arranged that Aigner's most famous breed, the variety "KZ-3", received the name 'Korbiniansapfel' and was further spread.
	Eckart Brandt * 1950 in Zeven	Brandt is a German apple farmer and author. He is the initiator of the Boomgarden project and cultivates around 780 types of fruit on high trees.
	Manfred Fischer * 1938	Fischer is a pomologist and was instrumental in breeding resistant varieties in the GDR.
	Gerhard Friedrich * December 6, 1910 in Leipzig † January 15, 2003 in Dresden	Friedrich was a plant physiologist who carried out basic research on fruit trees.
	Paul Gerhard de Haas * March 12, 1907 in Saarlouis † August 12, 1976 in Hanover	De Haas was a pomologist and agricultural scientist at the Technical University of Hanover .
	Walter Hartmann * 1943	Hartmann is a German biologist, non-fiction author and fruit grower.
	Friedrich Hilkenbäumer * February 26, 1909 in Dortmund † June 17, 1976 in Bonn	Hilkenbäumer was a German fruit growing scientist. As a professor at the fruit growing department at the University of Bonn , he mainly researched the selection of rootstocks and varieties, the pruning of trees and the use of low tree shapes as well as the possibilities of cold storage of fruit.
	Emile Janssens * November 4, 1919 in Belgium † May 13, 2013 in Strathroy , Ontario	Emile Janssens was a fruit and vegetable farmer who emigrated from Belgium to Canada and who, as a pensioner, had built Canada's largest cultivar garden.
	Ernst-Ludwig Loewel * November 8, 1906 in Saarbrücken † April 6, 1997	Ernst-Ludwig Loewel was a German fruit grower who published several books. He headed the York Fruit Research Institute for 36 years.
	Wilfried Müller * approx. 1937 in Stollberg / Erzgebirge † May 10, 2006 in Aue	Along with Werner Schuricht, Müller was one of the most experienced pomologists in the former GDR. He was a founding member of the pomologists' association and its managing director for many years.
	Helmut Palmer * May 8, 1930 in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim † December 24, 2004 in Tübingen	Palmer was a civil rights activist and pomologist known as the "Remstal Rebel". He developed a cutting method for fruit trees, the Palmer-Oeschbergschnitt.
	Herbert Petzold * October 10, 1910 in Wurzen † February 25, 1997	Petzold was a pomologist, author of pomological standard works and a founding and honorary member of the Pomologen-Verein e. V.
	Hugo Schanderl * February 22, 1901 in Munich † February 10, 1975 in Geisenheim	Schanderl was a German botanist. From 1932 to 1966 he worked at the teaching and research institute for viticulture, fruit growing and horticulture in Geisenheim. He examined the influence of the microclimate on the yield performance in orchards and researched fundamental questions about the fertilization of the fruit trees.
	Werner Schuricht * April 26, 1936	Schuricht is a German fruit growing scientist who did research in the GDR. After reunification he was one of the founders of the pomologists' association and is committed to preserving old cultivated apple varieties.
	Hans Spreng * April 5, 1901 in Aarwangen † March 29, 1975 in Rüdtligen-Alchenflüh	Spreng was head of the fruit growing center in Oeschberg from 1927–67 and the Swiss fruit growing center from 1934–67. The Oeschbergschnitt goes back to him , which the landscape picture v. a. which significantly influenced Swiss fruit-growing regions.

Web links

For the history of fruit growing and fruit growing advice on the pages of fruit growing advice Baden-Württemberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Eis: Master Gottfried von Franken. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), pp. 670-671
2. ↑ Biography at www.cchs-nb.ca ( memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 27, 2013.
3. ↑ H. Wahlen, "Hans S. 1901-1975", in Die Grüne 103, 1975, No. 52, 10-29, quoted by: Juri Auderset: Hans Spreng. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . February 22, 2012 , accessed April 25, 2015 .