Dominik Kollinger
Dominik Kollinger (born November 20, 1929 - † October 17, 2018 ) was a German falconer .
life and work
As a trained textile engineer , Kollinger ran a small textile company near Pfarrkirchen in the post-war period. He became interested in birds of prey and falconry at an early age and gave up what he had learned to do to turn his passion into a profession. In 1951 he joined the German Falcon Order (DFO), to which he belonged until his death. At the DFO conference in Hambach in the Eifel, he took part in the same year as a spectator at an order conference. In 1955 and 1957 he was able to win the first prize for the best bird at a convention.
From the end of the 1950s to 1964 he was the regional association chairman of the “Gau Süd, Bayern und Hessen” and organized the Order Conference in 1964 in Kirchham near Passau . In 1960 Renz Waller made him hawk master of the DFO and in 1966 hawk master. Until the beginning of the 1970s he was the only falconer in the order who was allowed to call himself both falcon master and hawk master.
As an author he was internationally known, especially for his publications on the study of the hawk , as a breeder he was successful in breeding birds of prey, vultures and owls . He wrote many reports for the DFO yearbook and was the holder of an honorary certificate from the Bavarian Hunting Protection and Hunters Association for exceptional services to hunting in Bavaria. He was the first professional falconer in Germany after the Second World War . Together with Hans Schutte, he made free flight demonstrations in schools, an early educational work for the protection of birds of prey. From 1960 to 1972 he organized free flight demonstrations in almost all well-known football stadiums in the Federal Republic of Germany in front of mostly thousands of visitors. In 1963 he was responsible for carrying out the show at the German Hunting, Forestry and Wood Exhibition in Munich , which was popular with federal and state ministers and the President of the Bundestag. In 1967 he carried out the flight demonstrations and the presentation of the birds of prey for the German delegation of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forests in Novi Sad , with special recognition through a gold medal among 42 nations and by the President of Yugoslavia.
Success as a falcon master
In 1964 Dominik Kollinger founded the German Falkenhof at the Jagdschloss Kranichstein , which is recognized and managed as the "Falkenhof of the German Falcon Order and German Hunting Protection Association" because of its outstanding work as the only falconry to date. The German Falkenhof was the first official institution of its kind in Germany. At that time, Kollinger was a teacher for a whole generation of young falconers who had formed their own regional DFO association in 1968. From 1976 until his retirement in 1991 he managed the eagle and wolf park Kasselburg in the Eifel . Here he succeeded in breeding hawks, falcons, eagle owls , snowy owls and griffon vultures . After a year of activity, the Kasselburg eagle and wolf park received recognition from the German Game Reserve Association with the title “Professionally managed German game reserve”, which was awarded for the first time in Rhineland-Palatinate. During his work there, Dominik Kollinger was able to increase the number of visitors from a maximum of 70,000 annually to a continuous 140,000, whereby the facility also became the specialty of the Vulkaneifel for tourism and the performances received personal enthusiasm and written recognition, among other things. a. from the Federal Chancellery, the Regional Council and District Office.
Dominik Kollinger was known among the active falconers as an excellent Habichtler. His hawk "Sabine" became the oldest bird of prey in human care that was ever reported. Experts therefore call him the "hawk pope". His reports "Allgemeine Habichtserlebnisse I. + II." (1956 and 1959), "Habichtbeobachtungen" (1962 and 1964) and "Beize mit Wildfanggehichten" (1965) are unforgettable, because of their technical depth "Pope hawk" justified. He was the first in German-language falconry literature to address the use of the Bonelli's eagle in 1962 and to establish the use of telemetry in 1974. Also new in 1982 was his experience report on the Albidushabicht. He has not only been honored for outstanding achievements in Germany, he has also held free-flight demonstrations and lectures with his griffins in Austria and the USA.
literature
- Beizjagd.de, Volume 3, No. 1/2003
- Kölnische Rundschau, August 18, 1985
- Passauer Neue Presse, October 27, 2000
Web links
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kollinger, Dominik |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German falconer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1929 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th October 2018 |