Wilhelm Lauche

Wilhelm Lauche (21 May 1827, Gartow – 12 September 1883) was a German gardener, dendrologist and pomologist.

Lauche was the son of a palace gardener for the Count of Bernstorff in Gartow, and so early was familiar with the nursery.

He received his horticultural training at the Schloss Ludwigslust park and deepened it in various places such as Erfurt, Hannover, and Potsdam.

Lauche spent five years planting nurseries near Potsdam, until he founded his own market garden.

Models of fruit that he made for a "pomological cabinet" are still visible today in the collection of the German Horticultural Museum, Erfurt.