| 🌵 Author(s) | Curt Knebel | 🌵 Published in | Kakteenkunde 4: 72-73 (1934) |
German Volkskanzler Adolf Hitler ‘People’s Chancellor Adolf Hitler’. Curt Knebel concluded his description of this hybrid with the rhetorical question “What other name could be given to this magnificent flower than ‘Volkskanzler Adolf Hitler’?”. Also incorrectly called ‘Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler’ (‘Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler’) or simply ‘Adolf Hitler’ or ‘Adolph Hitler’. Renamed ‘Sherman E. Beahm’ by Knebel after World War II.
Beahm Gardens (Epiphyllums, Phyllocactus, Phyllocereus: 12. 1944): “A very fine flower, but its original name (Volkskanzler Adolph Hitler) is objected to by many so we list it under import number and you can call it what you like.”
Cactus Pete (Cactus Pete: Catalogue Number Three – 1950: 38. 1950): “Curt Knebel of Germany has felt the need to change the names of some of his hybrids, due to the fact that the former names were in honor of some of the ‘war criminals,’ etc., even though some of them were very old, as in the case of Manfred von Richthofen, the German flying ace of World War I. We have sold hundreds of these hybrids under their original names. We feel it to be most confusing to try to change such old, well-established names, therefore we list them as usual in our price list and give you, herewith, the changes he has made . . . leaving it up to each individual to call his plants whatever he chooses.”
Other Knebel hybrids include ‘Mussolini’, ‘Horst Wessel’ and ‘Dr. Josef Goebbels’.
See also Phyllocactus ‘White Hitler’ and Rebutia adolf-hitler.
Maarten H.J. van der Meer (2023 Nov 22). Phyllocactus ‘Volkskanzler Adolf Hitler’. Dictionary of Cactus Names. Retrieved from https://www.cactusnames.org/phyllocactus-volkskanzler-adolf-hitler