Gottfried Claes Carl Hagenbeck

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Gottfried Claes Carl Hagenbeck , around 1880

Gottfried Claes Carl Hagenbeck (also Clas , born March 13, 1810 in Hamburg ; † October 3, 1887 ibid) was a successful Hamburg fish trader , animal showman and founder of an animal trade , which his son Carl Hagenbeck (1844-1913) became an international family business and expanded a zoo .

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Gottfried Claes Carl Hagenbeck was born in Hamburg in 1810 as the illegitimate son of the Flemish wallpaper manufacturer François ( Ziese ) Hagenbeck and Louise Juliane Richersen. He operated in the Große Petersenstraße 16 (today's Lincolnstraße) in Hamburg-St. Pauli has a fish smokehouse . In the course of the economic boom of the city after the Napoleonic Wars , Hagenbeck's fish trade also prospered, so he signed fishermen who exclusively delivered their catches from the Elbe and the high seas. In addition to the smokehouse, he processed the spawn of the sturgeonwho swam up the Elbe in the spring to so-called “Elbe caviar”, which was far cheaper than the expensive Russian one. Gottfried Hagenbeck also did good business with Aalen , whom one of his customers, the street vendor " Aalweber " (who was actually called Karl Weber), praised in verse in front of the fish shop, which gave him his nickname. The actor Friedrich Eduard Dannenberg, who lived in Hagenbeck's house and earned some money by publicizing municipal ordinances with a bell in hand, also used the opportunity to advertise Hagenbeck's smoked fish.

After Heinrich Leutemann : Bath of the seals of Gottfried Hagenbeck

In 1848 fishermen who worked for Gottfried Hagenbeck caught six seals , which Gottfried Hagenbeck offered for viewing in a vat for money. The commercial success caused him to put the seals on display in Berlin ; he then sold them to a showman who made the animals appear as "mermaids". Hagenbeck, who owned a small menagerie that included goats and chickens, but also - brought by seafarers - a monkey and a talking parrot, began to show animal sensations , especially at the time of the cathedral , the Christmas fair. For example, he showed a shaved boar as a “naked giant pig” or a “lama”, which was a deer from the Lüneburg Heath .

In 1852 the captain of a whaler offered him a fully grown polar bear , which he bought for 350 thalers. He first exhibited the animal in his fish shop. In 1856 he leased the “Lemler Carousel” and the “Hundiussche Naturalienkabinett” from Theodor Hünemerder on Spielbudenplatz , where he exhibited the polar bears together with hyenas , raccoons and baboons and had a recommandeur for the bear advertise. In 1857 he bought wild animals from the Sudan from the Austrian explorer Josef Franz Natterer (1819–1862) , including lions, leopards and gazelles, which he shipped from Vienna to Hamburg and sold to zoos and traveling menageries. In advertisements inviting for display and sale, the company now traded as “C. Hagenbeck's Action Menagerie St. Pauli ”on Spielbudenplatz.

On January 1, 1866, Hagenbeck handed the business over to his son Carl , who had worked there since 1859; Gottfried Claes Carl Hagenbeck died in 1887. In the spring a storm had destroyed the first tent of "Carl Hagenbeck's International Circus and Sinhalese Caravan", in which the son put his Völkerschau into a circus format.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 85, 1999; P. 289
  2. ^ Haug von Kuenheim : Carl Hagenbeck (2007), p. 17
  3. ^ Carl Hagenbeck: From animals and people (1908), p. 38
  4. ^ Haug von Kuenheim: Carl Hagenbeck (2007); P. 22
  5. ^ Journal of the Association for Hamburg History, Volume 85, 1999; P. 289
  6. ^ Haug von Kuenheim: Carl Hagenbeck (2007), pp. 23-27.
personal data
SURNAME Hagenbeck, Gottfried Claes Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fishmonger, animal showman and animal dealer
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 3, 1887
Place of death Hamburg