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Employee magazine of KWS, Einbeck | 48th year, special edition

Published by KWS SAAT SE & Co. KGaA, Grimsehlstraße 31, 37574 Einbeck, Germany · Phone: +49 5561 311-0 · Internet: www.kws.com · E-mail: kwsintern@kws.com

Editor Jochen Büscher · Phone: +49 5561 311-587

Conzept Betina Meißner

Illustrations Eugen Schulz

Coordination publish! Medienkonzepte GmbH, 30539 Hanover, Germany

The editorial team reserves the right to abridge and edit submitted articles. 
Photo credits All photos belong to KWS, unless otherwise indicated 
You can contact the editorial team by e-mail at: kwsintern@kws.com

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Special edition

KWS and the reunification

163 years of KWS – 30 years after the fall of the wall

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Contents

1Cover
2Introduction
330 years after reunification –
163 years of KWS

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.

4They stayed and suffered

Lives were broken under Russian occupation. Employees in Klein Wanzleben experienced state repression and unfair trials after 1945.

5Lagging behind the west

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.

6“Operation Crystal”

How the GDR tried to catch up with the west’s leading standards in sugarbeet breeding using stolen seed.

7Misinvestment in seed pelleting

This tale from “VEB Saat- und Pflanzgut” in Klein Wanzleben illustrates the difficulties East German enterprises had to contend with after reunification.

8Reunification à la Klein Wanzleben

After the wall fell, KWS returned to its roots and invested in establishing an efficient breeding station.

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