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Max Alfred Zoll (born April 28, 1905 in Leipzig , † October 8, 1982 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German journalist, author and zoo director.

Life

Grave of Max Alfred Zoll in the Munich-Solln cemetery

After graduating from school, Zoll initially worked as a bookseller, but then became a journalist and wrote, among other things, for the SPD central organ Vorwärts . After the National Socialists came to power in 1933, he was arrested and then banned from his profession for life. In 1937 he became an employee of the Geozoo , which Heinz Heck had opened in the south of Munich in 1928. After the end of World War II, he headed the zoo's press and advertising department. In 1959 Zoll was appointed director of Hellabrunn Zoo , an office he held until his retirement in 1973. He then became director of the Parque Diana wildlife park in Patagonia , a position that was offered to him by the park's founder, Carl Adolf Vogel . He was also chairman of the Munich Animal Welfare Association for many years until 1978.

Zoll made numerous study trips to game reserves, including seven to Africa and seven to South America. He also worked for the Bavarian radio . Together with Robert Lembke and Friedrich Sauer, he made a number of contributions from Hellabrunn Zoo, including the films Predators - Elephants - Monkeys (1955), In Hellabrunn Aquarium (1955), Elephants - Close Up (1960) and Walk in Hellabrunn Zoo ( 1963). In the 1960s, the radio program of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation broadcast its program Customs Tales from Animals .

Works (selection)

  • Animals in the aquarium , 1952
  • Large animals of the earth , 1965
  • Picture book for animal lovers , 1968
  • Zoll's Pet Lexicon , 1969
  • Animal Children , 1970
  • What's new at the zoo ?: Alfred Zoll tells about animals , 1970
  • My neighbors, the monkeys - a zoo director tells us , 1971
  • A flamingo is born , 1973
  • Animals of our homeland , 1973
  • Africa - beautiful! , 1974
  • Animal paradise Africa , 1975
  • Animal magic South America. Adventure between the Caribbean and the South Seas , 1977
  • Animal Love Circle , 1979
  • The new pet lexicon. From angora cats to dwarf sunfish. 1325 pets in 1866 keywords , 1980

literature

  • Doris Seidel: Reconstruction and "third Hellabrunn" (1945-2000). In: Michael Kamp and Helmut Zedelmaier (eds.): Hippos on the Isar: a history of the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich. Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-934036-19-8 , pp. 139-165.
  • Evelyn Gottschlich: Reopening and Destruction (1928-1945). In: Michael Kamp and Helmut Zedelmaier (eds.): Hippos on the Isar: a history of the Hellabrunn zoo in Munich. Buchendorfer Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-934036-19-8 , pp. 112-138.
  • Rudolf Vierhaus (Hsg): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie (DBE), Volume 10: Thies - Zymalkowski , Walter de Gruyter, 2008, ISBN 3110963817 , p. 881
  • Zoll, Alfred in Munzinger Online / Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv, Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg (accessed on April 30, 2015)
  • Rudolf J. Praetorius: Max Alfred Zoll in retirement In: Bayern-Magazin 3,10 (1973), p. 55

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Seidel (2000): page 140
  2. ↑ Gottschlich (2000): pages 114 f
personal data
SURNAME Customs, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zoll, Max Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoo director, journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1982
Place of death Ludwigsburg