Johann Gerd Krüssmann (1910–1980) was a German dendrologist and author. Krüssmann worked as dendrologist from 1935, and from 1946 was the owner of a nursery and part-time horticulture teacher at the Horticultural Vocational School in

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and the county vocational school in

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. The Ellerhoop-Thiensen Arboretum was established in 1956 by Erich Frahm, its owner, in cooperation with Krüssman.

Works

* ''Handbuch der Laubgehölze'' (Vols 1–3) (Paul Parey, Berlin and Hamburg, 1976); trans. Michael E. Epp, ''Manual of Cultivated Broad-Leaved Trees and Shrubs'' (Vols. 1–3) and ''Manual of Cultivated Conifers'' (Vol. 4) (Batsford, Timber Press, Beaverton, Oregon, 1984–6)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Krüssmann, Johann Gerd 1910 births 1980 deaths 20th-century German botanists Dendrologists Scientists from North Rhine-Westphalia