Doretta (domestic goose)
Doretta (later also called Schröder ; * June 2000 in Mecklenburg ; † May 2009 in Berlin ) was a ganter who became known as the intended Christmas goose of the then German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder .
Life
Doretta hatched on an organic farm in Mecklenburg in early June 2000 . When Gerhard Schröder toured Brandenburg in August 2000, among other things , he ordered the supposed goose in Lenzen , where it was fattened together with 700 other animals on a pasture owned by the Landschaftspflege GmbH. She weighed 7.5 kilograms when she was to be slaughtered in December 2000 on an ecologically managed farm in Gladebeck (Lower Saxony).
Allegedly on the intervention of the then nine-year-old daughter of his wife Doris Schröder-Köpf , Schröder decided not to have Doretta slaughtered . However, tabloids had previously appealed to show mercy to the animal and to take US President Bill Clinton as an example, who had given up a turkey for Thanksgiving and given life to one turkey at a time. Doretta returned to Lenzen from Lower Saxony. Schröder and his family did not visit the ganter there. Instead, there was a rush of journalists there. In 2001 it turned out that Doretta was not a goose, but a ganter.
Schröder financed his maintenance until 2005 by sending a crossed check annually. Care had only been agreed for the duration of the chancellorship. For Schröder's successor in the Chancellery, Angela Merkel , Doretta was not an issue. The Berlin association "Leben mit Tiere" took over responsibility.
In June 2006 Doretta moved to Berlin and was housed in the animal enclosure of a nursing home in Zehlendorf . There the residents renamed Doretta “Schröder”. As the only ganter in the enclosure, the animal was unhappy, so it was given a goose to company, which the residents of the home christened "Angela". The ganter died in May 2009 of a liver tumor . His companion got a different Ganter as company, which was named "Tyson" after the American boxer Mike Tyson .
Web links
- Wolfgang Frühwald : Gans wie Gerd (PDF; 11.5 MB) In: Research and Teaching , Issue 1/2007, pp. 24–26
Individual evidence
- ^ "Doretta" is dead on the n-tv website on September 11, 2009
- ↑ a b Schröder's Christmas goose: The Chancellor pardons Doretta In: Der Tagesspiegel online from December 16, 2000
- ↑ Don't be afraid of Christmas ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: stern .de from December 4, 2004
- ↑ Sebastian Knauer : The agony of the Christmas geese - VIP goose "Doretta" survived this Christmas too. In: Spiegel Online of December 12, 2006
- ↑ Chancellor goose "Doretta" is a ganter In: Rheinische Post online from April 16, 2001
- ↑ What will become of the Chancellor goose? In: Blick online from December 18, 2005
- ↑ Matthias Schröter : Chancellor goose Doretta on the old part ( Memento from September 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Netzeitung from December 16, 2005
- ↑ Chancellor goose amuses senior citizens In: Focus Online from December 15, 2005
- ↑ Doretta is an orphan In: n-tv online from December 23, 2005
- ↑ Gerhard Schröder separates from Doretta In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 27, 2005, p. 8 (full access only for subscribers)
- ↑ Jens Blankennagel: Chancellor goose in the old people's home In: Berliner Zeitung online from June 23, 2006
- ^ Chancellor goose "Doretta" died of cancer In: Die Welt online of September 12, 2009
- ↑ Doretta is called "Herr Schröder" In: Berliner Morgenpost online from June 3, 2008 (full access only for subscribers)
- ↑ Frozen ready for kitchen In: Süddeutsche Zeitung online from December 23, 2006
- ↑ Gerds Ganter marries In: n-tv online from December 23, 2007
- ^ Chancellor goose "Doretta" is dead. In: Handelsblatt online from September 11, 2009
- ↑ Chancellor goose Doretta is dead In: Süddeutsche.de of September 11, 2009
- ^ Chancellor goose "Doretta" died of cancer In: Die Welt online of September 12, 2009