Walther Haage
Walther Max Haage (born November 27, 1899 , † April 22, 1992 in Erfurt ) was a German gardener , botanist and non-fiction author. Its official botanical author's abbreviation is " W. Haage ".
Live and act
Walther Haage was the son of Ferdinand Haage and great-grandson of the founder of the Erfurt nursery Kakteen-Haage Friedrich Adolph Haage . He initiated and financed numerous cactus expeditions up to the Second World War , including those of Alberto Vojtěch Frič , Hans Wilhelm Viereck and Curt Backeberg . After the founding of the GDR, he was increasingly exposed to state reprisals. In 1972 he was the last of the Erfurt mail order gardeners to hand over the family business to the state. He lost his job and from then on concentrated on his scientific work, exchanged letters with international cactus scientists and began to publish his extensive knowledge. He became known as the author of books on growing and caring for cacti . His most famous work is the cactus lexicon cacti from A to Z . In 1990 the International Organization for Succulent Research (IOS) awarded him the Cactus d'Or for his life's work .
Walther Haage married Lotte Söhlemann (1906–2001) in 1928. The children Margarete (1929–2015), Ingeburg (* 1931), Helga (* 1932) and Hans-Friedrich (* 1942) emerged from the marriage. His son Hans-Friedrich Haage reprivatised the nursery after the political change in 1990.
Honors
- 1990: Cactus d'Or of IOS
Taxa named after Haage
The genus Haageocereus Backeb was named in his honor . the plant family of the cactus family (Cactaceae). The following plant species were also named after him:
- Cereus haageanus
- Gibbaeum haagei
- Lobivia haageana , now a synonym for Echinopsis marsoneri
- Parodia haageana
Works
- Cacti . The world of plants, volume 4. Folkwang-Auriga: Friedrichssegen 1930.
- Euphorbia . The world of plants, volume 3. Folkwang-Auriga: Friedrichssegen 1931.
- Joy with cacti . Neumann: Radebeul 1954.
- Cactus stars - the astrophytes . Neumann: Radebeul-Berlin 1957; Astromeister: private edition 2003.
- Caring for beautiful cacti properly . Neumann: Radebeul 1962.
- The practical cactus book in color . Neumann: Radebeul 1961.
- Cacti from AZ - the cactus lexicon . Neumann: Radebeul 1981; Quelle & Meyer, Heidelberg / Wiesbaden 1986; Anaconda, Cologne 2008.
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- Wilhelm Barthlott : Obituary for Walther Haage . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 43, 1992, p. 155f.
- Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, 2004. ISBN 3-540-00489-0 .
- Walther Haage: cacti from A to Z . 3rd edition, Quelle & Meyer Verlag, Heidelberg 1986. ISBN 3-494-01142-7 .
- Ilsabe Schalldach: The Haage family. 325 years of horticultural history . In: Martin Baumann, Steffen Raßloff (eds.): City of flowers Erfurt. Waid - Horticulture - iga / egapark . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2011, ISBN 978-3-86680-812-6 , pp. 74-107.
Web links
- Literature by and about Walther Haage in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Walther Haage at the IPNI
- History of a gardener family on gaertnerei.kakteen-haage.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haage, Walther |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haage, Walther Max (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German gardener, botanist and non-fiction author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Erfurt |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 22, 1992 |
| Place of death | Erfurt |