The German grape breeder Justus Georg Scheu (1879-1949) received horticultural training in Hanover and worked as a horticultural technician in Munich and Schierstein. He then completed training at the teaching and research institute in Geisenheim and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Bromberg. From 1909, he worked as a district advisor for wine and fruit growing at the state institute for grape breeding in Alzey in the growing area Rheinhessen.
Here he was intensively involved in the selection, crossbreeding and breeding of grape varieties and experimented with many wild vines. The grape variety named after him, Scheurebe, is his most famous creation. Other new breeds include AZ 15477, Faberrebe, Huxelrebe, Kanzler, Regner, Septimer, Siegerrebe, Thurling and Würzer. The suitability test and the application for varietal protection were carried out by his successor Dr. Eduard Zimmermann (1907-1993).
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