Hans Peter Haage 1660-1725

1685 - 1725 self-employed Gardener in Erfurt

Martin Haage 1695-1771

1725 - 1771 self-employed Gardener

Johann Heinrich Haage 1737-1803

self-employed in Erfurt from 1785 till 1803

Johann Nikolaus Haage 1766-1814

Seed-, Art- and Trade gardener from 1793-1814 in Erfurt

Friedrich Adolph Haage 1796-1866

F.A. Haage established the company Friedrich Adolph Haage jun. in 1822 and ran it until 1866 when his son took over.

He established the mail-ordering, started commercial cacti cultivation and collected one of the most distinguished cacti collections. F.A. Haage was the founder and honorary director of the Horticultural Association (Gartenbauverein) of Erfurt.

Gustav Ferdinand Haage 1830-1921

Art- and Trade gardener from 1866 till 1888

Gustav Ferdinand enlarged the cacti collection. When new railways where built he had to move the nursery from central-city to Daberstedt, outside of Erfurt.

Ferdinand Haage 1859-1930

After extensive training in England he lead the company from 1888. Ferdinand Haage specialised in cacti and seed cultivation and established intensive commercial connections with England and Russia. He moved the company again in 1903, to the place where it is located until today. WW I damaged the cacti collection and cut back foreign trade significantly.

Walther Haage 1899-1992

Walter Haage initiated and financed a large number of expeditions to several place in central and south America to hunt for cacti. On one of these journey Astrophytum asterias was rediscovered and later described by the cacti collector Fric.
Walther Haage was a well known hybridizer of orchidcacti and author of several important cacti books. He saved the valuable cacti collection through WW II.
After 1945 he rebuilt and extended the premises and specialised the company in cacti and cacti seed production. 1961 he was forced to take up a state share in the company and in 1972 Kakteen-Haage was nationalised completely. In 1990 he was honoured by the IOS with the "Golden Cacti" for his merits.

Hans-Friedrich Haage * 1942

After he finished his studies in horticulture in 1969 he managed the now state-owned company from 1972 as a so called "Betriebsleiter". Under his management the company was restituted back into the hands of the Haage family after the German reunification in the early 1990s.

Hans-Friedrich Haage lead the company from that day on and put a trade on end sales.

With the help of his son Ulrich, Hans-Friedrich Haage turned Kakteen-Haage around in this economcally difficult times. Increasing labour costs and the competition from cheaper imports forced the company to refocus as a specialist supplier of high quality and rare plants. The product range was extended onto caudex plants, tillandsia, room bonsai, bucket plants and fuchsia.
Kakteen-Haage carried on the tradition and took part in several national and international exhibitions as the biannual Bundesgartenschau or the Gruene Woche in Berlin. Hans-Friedrich Haage is also author of the book "Neumanns Ratschläge - Kakteen" .

Ulrich Haage * 1970

Ulrich Haage was trained in Erfurt, Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, Stadtische Sukkulentensammlung Zurich and studied in Wuerzburg. He has worked in several nurseries in Germany, Belgium and Guatemala and traveled extensively to re-establish Kakteen-Haage´s international links.

In 1996 he took over from his father. Ulrich Haage established co-operations with companies in the U.S. and Spain and set up the company´s internet activities.
Thereby he successfully expanded Kakteen-Haage´s mail order business on an international scale.

In 1997 he published with Dr. Werner Hoffmann a small cacti cookbook "Kleines Kakteenkochbuch".