Emil Koehrmann

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Emil Otto Heinrich "Uncle Emil" Köhrmann (born April 9, 1896 in Hamburg ; † June 28, 1970 ibid) was a key figure in the Hagenbeck zoo in Hamburg-Stellingen and who provided the idea for the Karl May Games in Bad Segeberg .

biography

After his confirmation he began in the spring of 1911 under Carl Hagenbeck jun. in the Stellingen zoo as a pen . He accompanied the animal transports from Hamburg to New York and worked on board as a coal trimmer and potato peeler. When the zoo was no longer able to take care of all animals during the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 and had to close temporarily, Köhrmann traveled with the remaining animals to the Netherlands and Scandinavia to continue the zoo as a traveling menagerie. After the zoo was reopened on May 24, 1924, Köhrmann was promoted to head of the visitor service and advertising department.

In 1928 he launched the Children's Festival - events for children and young people that took place in the zoo during the summer holidays and consisted of games of skill , parades , revues , music and dance. The children called him by the name "Uncle Emil", which earned him his nickname . Köhrmann was also the organizer of a children's circus , which was on tour in Duvenstedt , Rellingen and Westerland after the Second World War and generated important income for the reconstruction of the destroyed zoo. In the post-war period he organized Karl May Games in the zoo for the first time , which are said to have served as a template for the inventors of the Bad Segeberg Karl May Festival .

family

His grandfather, who was a school friend of Carl Hagenbeck jun. was, worked in the zoo as a porter , saddler and upholsterer . Emil Köhrmann married the Pleureusen maker Johanna Frida Loop in May 1917 . Their son Emil jun. worked as a trainer in the Hagenbeck Zoo. Kurt Köhrmann, the couple's grandson, worked in the zoo's dolphinarium as a dolphin and whale trainer. Kurt Köhrmann's son Thorsten is a zoo keeper .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Best. 332-5 registry offices, civil status registers, death registers, 1876-1950 . Hamburg State Archive ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ a b Job of the Century ( Memento from April 1, 2019 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Abendblatt.de . June 22, 2010, accessed April 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ Ortwin Pelc , Matthias Gretzschel (Ed.): Hagenbeck: Animals, People, Illusions . Springer, Hamburg 1998, ISBN 3-921305-50-0 , p. 82 .
  4. ^ A b c Günter Niemeyer: Hagenbeck: History and stories . Christians Verlag, Hamburg 1972, ISBN 3-7672-0189-5 , pp. 230-234 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Lorenz Hagenbeck : My heart belongs to the animals . Hoffman and Campe, Hamburg 1967, OCLC 41193119 , pp. 12-13 ( digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Henner Fischer: Köhrmann's greatest success was the dressage of "Orca" . In: Bild newspaper . 1988, p. 4 ( digitized version ).
  7. ↑ Hagenbeck turns 111: A lot of history - but what future? In: Welt.de . May 7, 2018, accessed April 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Koehrmann, Emil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Köhrmann, Emil Otto Heinrich (full name); Köhrmann, Uncle Emil (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION decisive personality in the development of today's Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg-Stellingen
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1970
Place of death Hamburg