Mathias Tantau jun.

Mathias Tantau jun. (* July 8, 1912 in Uetersen ; † March 28, 2006 there ) was a German rose breeder .

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Mathias Tantau jun. was born in 1912 in Uetersen as the son of the rose grower Mathias Tantau . After finishing school he was later called up for military service. After the end of the Second World War he returned to Uetersen from captivity to take over his father's rose growing business ( Rosen Tantau ) there in 1948 . Shortly afterwards, he began changing the growing method, as the trend was towards large-flowered, bright, long-stemmed roses. One of his new breeds was the Konrad Adenauer Rose.

In 1960 Mathias Tantau jun. one of his greatest hits on the market, the salmon-orange Super Star . Other varieties followed, such as fragrance cloud and floribunda rose , both of which came on the market in 1963.

In the meantime the company had grown to around 70 employees who produced three million rose plants annually. The greenhouse area was approx. 2500 m². Mathias Tantau junior has won several international awards for his rose varieties. He was later awarded the Georg Arends Memorial Medal for his services to the rose .

In 1985 he sold the rose growing business to one of his employees and retired a few years later. Mathias Tantau jun. died on March 28, 2006 in Uetersen.

Rose cultivations by Mathias Tantau jun.

Commons : Roses by Tantau  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

variety	Habit	colour	year	ADR approval	comment	photo
Konrad Adenauer		blood red	1954
Halali			1956
Friedrich Heyer			1956
paprika			1958
Fatherland			1959
Super star		vermilion	1960
Scent cloud	Floribunda rose	coral red	1963	1964	World Rose 1981
Floribunda rose			1963
Mainz Carnival	Hybrid tea	purple	1964	1964
Parisian charm	Hybrid tea	salmon pink	1964	1966
whiskey		amber	1967
Erotica	Hybrid tea	blood red	1968	1969
Duke of Windsor	Hybrid tea	salmon pink	1969	1970
Landora	Hybrid tea	bright yellow	1970
Rebecce		yellow, inside light red	1970	1972
Piroschka			1972
Montana	Floribunda rose	Swiss red	1974	1974	Denial withdrawn
Mildred Scheel	Hybrid tea	dark purple	1976	1978	Denial withdrawn
Lawinia	Climbing rose	pure pink	1980
Lady Like	Hybrid tea	dark pink	1982
Pole Star	Hybrid tea	White	1982
Wimi	Hybrid tea	silvery pink	1982		named after Willy Millowitsch
Camp David		deep red	1984
romance	Shrub rose	pink	1984	1986	Denial withdrawn

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• City of Uetersen: 750 years of Uetersen (1984)
• Lothar Mosler : Blickpunkt Uetersen (History and Stories 1234–1984) (1985)
• Hamburger Abendblatt (2006)
• Uetersener Nachrichten (2006)
• Uetersen local history museum

Web links

• Homepage of the company Rosen-Tantau