Wilhelm Lauche (gardener, 1859)
Wilhelm Lauche (born June 12, 1859 in Abtnaundorf ; † January 15, 1950 in Leipzig ) was a horticultural specialist and court gardening director.
Lauche graduated from the horticultural school in the Potsdam Wildlife Park . From 1880 he did a two-year internship in Ghent and Hanover, in 1881/83 he was head gardener and teacher for fruit growing at the Royal Pomological Institute in Proskau (Silesia).
In 1883 he became court gardener for the Prince of Liechtenstein in Eisgrub (now Lednice ) in Moravia. From the ruling Prince Johann II von und zu Liechtenstein , Lauche received in 1889 the title of court garden director, which had not yet been awarded.
He was a co-founder of the Higher Fruit and Horticultural School in Eisgrub (today: Lednice ). This is considered a model for the Higher Federal Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture in Vienna-Schönbrunn (today: HGBL). Lauche was one of the co-founders of the Mendeleum Research Institute , which was opened in 1912 and named after Gregor Mendel , who had discovered the Mendelian rules that were named after him 40 years earlier . Even after the change to the Czech Republic , Lauche remained director and did not leave Eisgrub until 1938, soon after the invasion of the German Wehrmacht . Wilhelm Lauche died in Leipzig in 1950.
Wilhelm Lauche is the nephew of the German gardener, dendrologist and pomologist Wilhelm Lauche .
Web links
- http://lauche.org/index.html
- International Apple Museum Institute for pomology, horticulture and agriculture in urban contexts - Wilhelm Lauche junior
Individual evidence
- ^ See: Court and State Manual of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy 1918, p. 558.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leek, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Horticultural specialist and court garden director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 12, 1859 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Abtnaundorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 1950 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |