The rose was not dedicated to Heinrich Ludolph Wendland (1792-1869). He died when Wilhelm Kordes was 4 years old, long before Kordes was founded in 1887. Wilhelm Kordes named the rose after a senior employee of the Späth nursery in Berlin, "an unforgettable friend". (Information from Wikipedia). But there was also a Heinrich Wendland in Kiel (close to Kordes), owner of the "Forstecker Baumschule".