Geisenheim_Grape_Breeding_Institute Knowpia

White: Müller-Thurgau , Arnsburger , Ehrenfelser , Saphira , Reichensteiner , Ehrenbreitsteiner , Prinzipal , Osteiner , Witberger , Schönburger , Primera , Rabaner , Hibernal
Red: Rotberger , Dakapo
Improvements: Rondo , Orléans , Dunkelfelder

Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute
	Building of the Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute
Location	49°59′03″N 7°57′41″E / 49.98417°N 7.96139°E
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	Location in Germany

The Geisenheim Grape Breeding Institute was founded in 1872 and is located in the town of Geisenheim, in Germany's Rheingau region. In 1876 Swiss-born professor Hermann Müller joined the institute, where he developed his namesake grape variety Müller-Thurgau, which became Germany's most-planted grape variety in the 1970s. Professor Helmut Becker worked at the institute from 1964 until his death in 1989.^[1]

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Geisenheim is the only German institution to award higher academic degrees in winemaking. Formally, undergraduate level viticulture and enology, ending with a bachelor's degree in engineering is awarded by the University of Applied Sciences in Wiesbaden, and the newly introduced master's degree is awarded by the Giessen University.