163 years of KWS – 30 years after the fall of the wall
Special edition
We’re taking you on a short journey back in time through KWS’ history – highlighting momentous events in sugar production and seed multiplication in Klein Wanzleben and Einbeck.
Lives were broken under Russian occupation. Employees in Klein Wanzleben experienced state repression and unfair trials after 1945.
Research to bolster socialist agriculture – sugarbeet breeding comes under political pressure. Cooperation with KWS from the 1980s on with the goal of achieving advances in variety development.
How the GDR tried to catch up with the west’s leading standards in sugarbeet breeding using stolen seed.
This tale from “VEB Saat- und Pflanzgut” in Klein Wanzleben illustrates the difficulties East German enterprises had to contend with after reunification.
After the wall fell, KWS returned to its roots and invested in establishing an efficient breeding station.
