Hellmut Ludwig Späth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hellmut Ludwig Späth

German botanist

Date of Birth: 04-Dec-1885

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 15-Feb-1945

Profession: gardener, botanist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Hellmut Ludwig Späth

  • Hellmut Ludwig Späth (4 December 1885 – 15 February 1945), the son of Franz and Wilhelmine Späth, became the sixth and last manager of the Späth nursery on the death of his father in 1913.
  • After studies at Cambridge, Hellmut returned to Berlin in 1910 and received his doctorate in 1912 from the Berlin Agricultural College.
  • His dissertation was titled The locust drive - a contribution to the knowledge of periodicity and annual ring formation in deciduous woody plants, and was published by Paul Parey.
  • Hellmut revived the nursery's fortunes during the Depression by joining the Nazi Party and obtaining lucrative landscaping contracts for the new autobahns and other public works.
  • However, his outspoken criticism of the Nazi regime saw him incarcerated in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was executed by firing squad in 1945.
  • The nursery had closed in 1944, and in 1947 the arboretum passed into public ownership and became known as the Späthsches Arboretum. In 2009, a Stolperstein (small, cobble stone-sized memorial plaque) was installed at his old school, Landesschule Pforta, to commemorate Späth as a victim of the Nazi regime.

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