Bernhard Blaszkiewitz

Bernhard Blaszkiewitz (born February 17, 1954 in Berlin ; † in December 2021 there ) was a German biologist . From 1991 to 2014 he was director of the zoo in Berlin and from 2007 to 2014 in personal union also director of the Zoo Berlin and the aquarium Berlin .

Career

Bernhard Blaszkiewitz studied biology at the Free University of Berlin after graduating from the Canisius College in Berlin . From 1974 to 1978 he completed the apprenticeship in the zoo in Berlin and in 1978 he graduated with a diploma. In 1979 he was a volunteer assistant at the zoo in Frankfurt am Main and in 1980 he moved to the Ruhr Zoo in Gelsenkirchen as a curator . In 1984 he became a curator at the Berlin Zoological Garden. In 1987 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. nat. at the University of Kassel ; In 1991 he moved to Tierpark Berlin as director. From January 31, 2007 to March 31, 2014, he was the director of both of them Capital zoos .

From 2008 onwards, Blaszkiewitz was repeatedly accused of his leadership style and the way he treated animals. In June 2009 he was injured by one of his zoo animals: when he was handing a chimpanzee food through the bars during a tour, the monkey bit off most of the index finger of his right hand. On 29 January 2013, Blaszkiewitz moved in a fall during his morning tour at the Berlin Zoo a fractured skull to the immediate emergency surgery was.

In August 2013 it was announced that Blaszkiewitz's contract as director of Tierpark und Zoo Berlin, which expired in June 2014, would not be extended following a decision by the supervisory board, and on September 19, 2013 the supervisory board of Zoologischer Garten Berlin AG announced that Andreas Knieriem , the previous director of the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich , has been named as the successor to Blaszkiewitz.

Bernhard Blaszkiewitz was involved in numerous social projects and the Christians in the Holy Land . In 1998 he was appointed Knight of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher by Cardinal Grand Master Giuseppe Cardinal Caprio and invested in Mainz Cathedral on May 9, 1998 by Anton Schlembach , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy . Blaszkiewitz became head of the Berlin Commandery of the Knight Order in 2003 ; In 2011, the historian Michael F. Feldkamp replaced him in this position. Blaszkiewitz was an officer in the Papal Lay Order. He was a member of the German Association of the Holy Land .

Fonts

• Elephants in Berlin . Berlin, Lehmanns Media 2008, ISBN 978-3-86541-223-2
• Knautschke, Knut & Co . Berlin, Lehmanns Media 2009, ISBN 978-3-86541-264-5
• With grandma Charlotte through the Berlin Zoo . Berlin, Lehmanns Media 2009, ISBN 978-3-86541-278-2
• With grandma Charlotte through the Tierpark Berlin . Berlin, Lehmanns Media 2010, ISBN 978-3-86541-344-4
• A zoo director on the move. My favorite zoos around the world . Berlin, Lehmanns Media 2011, ISBN 978-3-86541-400-7
• Picasso fish and compass jellyfish. 100 years of Zoo-Aquarium Berlin . Berlin, Lehmanns Media 2013, ISBN 978-3-86541-508-0
• With grandma Charlotte through the Zoo-Aquarium Berlin . Berlin, Lehmanns Media 2013, ISBN 978-3-86541-543-1

Web links

• Literature by Bernhard Blaszkiewitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernhard Blaszkiewitz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Julia Schaaf: In conversation: Berlin Zoo Director Bernhard Blaszkiewitz. “We project our feelings onto the animals” . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , March 27, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ On the death of Dr. Bernhard Blaszkiewitz. In: tierpark-berlin.de. December 20, 2021, accessed December 21, 2021 . 
2. ↑ New allegations - now the zoo director speaks . In: Welt Online , April 14, 2008.
3. ↑ Thorsten Schmitz: Berlin, an animal experiment . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 30, 2010
4. ↑ After a monkey bite: the sewn-on finger is amputated. ( Memento from June 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) dpa article on Stuttgarter Zeitung Online , June 9, 2009, accessed on June 12, 2009
5. ↑ Karin Schmidl: Zoo boss seriously injured in a fall . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 29, 2013, accessed online on January 30, 2013
6. ^ Annette Kögel: Bernhard Blaszkiewitz had an emergency operation in the clinic: Berlin's zoo boss suffered a fractured skull base ; in: Der Tagesspiegel , January 30, 2013
7. ↑ Sabine Beikler, Christoph Stollowsky: No extension for Blaszkiewitz: Controversial Berlin zoo boss has to go . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 7, 2013.
8. ↑ Fatina Keilani, Christoph Stollowsky: The one who dances with the elephants . In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 19, 2013. Retrieved March 1, 2014.