Heinrich Hagenbeck

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Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand Hagenbeck (* July 5, 1875 in Hamburg ; † February 4, 1945 there ) was a German zoo director and designer of zoos.

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Heinrich Hagenbeck was the son of Carl Hagenbeck and the older brother of Lorenz Hagenbeck . His father ran a company that offered animal shows, pet trading and a zoo. Heinrich Hagenbeck worked in this company from May 1894. At the Berlin trade exhibition in 1896, he took over the management of the Hagenbeck exhibition. Together with his younger brother, he attended the Louisiana Purchase Exposition , which took place in 1904. The brothers showed the "Carl Hagenbeck's trained animal show". They then toured the USA and performed the dressage tests shown during the world exhibition again. In 1913 they made a guest appearance at the Olympia Hall in London . Here they showed "Carl Hagenbeck's Wonder Zoo and Big Circus". It was an extensive animal show and circus acts that were well received.

Pillow stone for Heinrich Hagenbeck on the family grave at Ohlsdorf cemetery

Carl Hagenbeck died in April 1913. Heinrich Hagenbeck and Lorenz Hagenbeck continued the business, in which they had had an equal share since 1911, with equal rights. Heinrich Hagenbeck focused on the trade in animals and Hagenbeck's zoo . Lorenz Hagenbeck mainly ran the circus business. Under Heinrich Hagenbeck's leadership, an extensive outdoor area with a baboon rock was built in the enclosure in 1913. From October 1920 until the reopening in May 1924, business was suspended due to the difficult economic situation. Heinrich Hagenbeck modernized the park in the following years and had new enclosures built. In 1936 he had Kaiser-Friedrich-Strasse, which until then led through the park, removed. Hagenbeck continued the principle of the gridless free-view systems that his father had invented. In the eastern part of the facility, elephant enclosures (1937) and a facility for bears (1938) were created. During the Second World War , the facility was massively destroyed on July 25, 1943. Heinrich Hagenbeck rebuilt the park after the end of the war. His son Carl-Heinrich Hagenbeck, who had worked in the company since 1930, completed the work.

Heinrich Hagenbeck received many orders to build or redesign zoological gardens abroad. Together with his father he designed the Bioparco Rome , which opened in 1911. Since the 1920s he has been in charge of redesigning several zoos in the USA. This included facilities in Seattle , Detroit, and the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago . In 1931 he designed the Parc zoologique de Paris for the French grocery exhibition .

Heinrich Hagenbeck was buried in the family grave, Ohlsdorfer Friedhof in Hamburg, grid square AE 15 (north of Nordteich ).

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SURNAME Hagenbeck, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hagenbeck, Wilhelm Heinrich Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoo director and designer of zoos
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 4, 1945
Place of death Hamburg