Matthias Reinschmidt

Matthias Reinschmidt in the Katandra Treetops free flight aviary in Loro Parque on Tenerife - 2010

Matthias Werner Reinschmidt (born May 28, 1964 in Bühl (Baden) ) is a German biologist and animal physiologist . He was the curator and zoological director of Loro Parque and the Loro Parque Foundation and has been director of the Karlsruhe Zoo since 2015 .

Life

After graduating from high school at the Lender home school in Sasbach, he completed his military service in Bad Bergzabern and Bruchsal as a telecommunications operator . From 1986 he worked as an intern in the Karlsruhe Zoological Garden . From 1986 to 1995 he studied biology at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . From 1993 to 2001 he was the responsible editor of the journal PAPAGEIEN of the Arndt-Verlag, from 2001 he was a regular member of the editorial board and since 2001 has been an editorial member of the magazine Cyanopsitta , which deals with the animal, species and nature conservation projects of the Loro Parque Foundation. He was briefly breeding manager at Loro Parque before he was appointed curator in June 2001. Since December 2010 Matthias Reinschmidt has been the zoological director of Loro Parque and the Loro Parque Fundacion. On July 1, 2015, he took over the management of the Karlsruhe Zoo.

In 2007 he did his doctorate at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and was the first in Germany to receive the title of Dr. biol. anim. Since 2008 he has been a lecturer at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen.

The focus of his work is the conservation breeding of endangered parrot species, in particular the Spix's Macaw , which is already considered extinct in the wild, and the Lear's Macaw , whose population is also severely threatened. He is also committed to endangered species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Matthias Reinschmidt became known to a wide audience primarily through the broadcast Parrots, Palms & Co. on ARD as well as Hundkatzemaus and Menschen, Animals & Doctors on VOX . After his appearance on the talk show People of the Week , he agreed with Frank Elstner that he would accompany him with a television team on an expedition into the Brazilian jungle. The team visited the threatened habitats of the parrots and filmed a species protection documentary. The two-part television documentary of this trip was broadcast on SWR television for the first time on December 25 and 26, 2010 and has since been repeated several times.

In over 400 TV productions for various German and international TV stations, he has since worked as Loro Parque curator and director, but also as a presenter. His around 1000 articles in ornithological and zoological journals have been published in 18 countries worldwide. He lectures on his experiences in parrot breeding at numerous international congresses in the field of species protection and conservation.

Reinschmidt is a member of the Association of Zoological Gardens (VdZ) and the Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection (ZGAP) . He is a member of the advisory board of the Fund for Endangered Parrots , a ZGAP working group that carries out and supports projects for the conservation of endangered parrot species worldwide. In September 2019 he was appointed to the scientific advisory board of the Loro Parque Foundation.

Reinschmidt is married and has one son.

Books

• 2000: Art hatching and hand rearing of parrots and parakeets , Matthias Reinschmidt, Arndt-Verlag , ISBN 978-3980529167
• 2006: Amazonen Volume 1 , Thomas Arndt & Matthias Reinschmidt, Arndt-Verlag, ISBN 978-3980824552
• 2006: Parrots of the World , Matthias Reinschmidt & Karl-Heinz Lambert, Eugen Ulmer Verlag , ISBN 978-3800149919
• 2007: New findings on the breeding biology of the Inca Cockatoo from Loro Parque Tenerife (dissertation) , Matthias Reinschmidt, VVB Laufersweiler-Verlag, ISBN 978-3835951310
• 2009: Amazonen Volume 2 , Thomas Arndt & Matthias Reinschmidt, Arndt-Verlag, ISBN 978-3980824583
• 2009: Color atlas parrots - 351 species in portrait , Dr. Matthias Reinschmidt, Eugen Ulmer Verlag ISBN 978-3800157396
• 2010: Animal personalities in Loro Parque , Ulrich Brodde & Dr. Matthias Reinschmidt, Tipp 4 Verlag, ISBN 978-3000324499

scientific publications

• Investigations on the breeding biology of the Inca Cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri) in Loro Parque, Tenerife. INAUGURAL DISSERTATION to obtain the degree Dr. biol. anim. at the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen

• Reinschmidt, M. & D. Waugh (2008) Keeping and breeding of the Spix's Macaw (Cyanopsitta spixii) in the Loro Parque Fundación on Tenerife , Zool. Garden NF 77, 134-156.

• Lierz, M., H. Müller, A. Wehrend, M. Reinschmidt & D. Neumann (2011) Semen collection and artificial insemination in large psittacine species , Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the European Association of Avian Veterinarians and 1st Scientific Meeting of the European College of Zoological Medicine, 26.-29. April 2011, Madrid, Spain, 219-220

• Neumann, D., H. Müller, M. Reinschmidt & M. Lierz (2011) Species Protection in Tubes - A New Method of Sperm Collection and Artificial Insemination in Large Parrots, Volume of Lectures of the 2nd DVG Conference on Bird and Reptile Diseases, Hanover, 16 . – 18. September 2011, ISBN 978-3863450366 ; 204-206

• Lierz, M., H. Müller, A. Wehrend, M. Reinschmidt & D. Neumann (2011) Assisted Reproduction in Psittacines - A breakthrough in species conservation , 32nd Annual Association of Avian Veterinarians Conference and Expo, 6. – 12. August 2011, Seattle, USA

• Lierz, M., M. Reinschmidt, H. Müller, M. Wink & D. Neumann (2013) A novel method for semen collection and artificial insemination in large parrots (Psittaci-formes) , Scientific Reports 3, Article number: 2066 doi : 10.1038 / srep02066

TV presence

Matthias Reinschmidt took part in around 400 TV productions - mostly documentaries on zoo, animal and species protection topics - for the broadcasters ARD, ZDF , RTL , VOX, Kabel eins , ProSieben , Arte , SWR , MDR and BBC .

Known formats

• People, animals & doctors with VOX since 2006 (around 300 programs)
• Parrots, Palms & Co. from 2010 on ARD (40 programs)
• Elstner's Travels - Blue Parrots, a large two-part species protection documentation about endangered parrots in Brazil together with Frank Elstner (2010) for ARD and SWR
• Moderator of the six-part show Animals of the Week on SWR (2012), producer Frank Elstner
• Moderator of the three-part one-hour species protection documentations Reinschmidt's wild world at VOX (2012) on the topics: Species protection in zoos using the example of the Vienna Zoo, sharks in the Bahamas, lynxes, wolves and bears in Slovakia
• hundkatzemaus - the pet magazine on VOX since 2009 regular moderator activity in various German-speaking zoos on various zoo and animal topics

Web links

• Official website of Matthias Reinschmidt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dr. Reinschmidt is the new Zooleiter http://presse.karlsruhe.de/db/mektiven/veranstaltung/dr_reinschmidt_ist_neuer_zooleiter.html accessed on July 8, 2015.
2. ↑ Spix's Macaws in Loro Parque at vox.de, accessed on January 3, 2015.
3. ^ Der SPIEGEL on Elstner and Reinschmidt , accessed on August 30, 2012.
4. ^ Association of Zoological Gardens - Homepage accessed on June 22, 2015.
5. ↑ Composition of the Fund for Endangered Parrots ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on October 28, 2012. 
6. ↑ Rafael Zamora Padrón: For the love of nature: 25 years of LPF . In: Thomas Arndt (Ed.): PAPAGEIEN . No. 12 . Arndt-Verlag eK, Bretten December 2019, p. 404 .
7. ↑ ScienceDirect: Der Zoologischer Garten , Volume 77, Issue 3, 2 January 2008, Pages 134–156; accessed on January 7, 2014.
8. ↑ Scientific lecture program of the 2nd DVG conference on avian and reptile diseases ( Memento of the original from January 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 7, 2014. 
9. ↑ Proceedings of the Association of Avian Veterinarians, Seattle 2011, Session # 1750 ( Memento of the original from June 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on January 7, 2014. 
10. ↑ Scientific Reports June 2013 - A novel method for semen collection and artificial insemination in large parrots (Psittaci-formes) accessed on January 7, 2014.
11. ^ VOX - “People, Animals & Doctors” accessed on January 7, 2014.
12. ↑ Report on the series in the Tenerife News accessed on January 7, 2014.
13. ↑ SWR press release on “Elstner's Travels - Blue Parrots” accessed on January 7, 2014.
14. ↑ SWR press kit for the series “Animals of the Week” accessed on January 7, 2014.
15. ↑ "Reinschmidts wilde Welt" on VOXNow accessed on January 7, 2014.
16. ↑ hundkatzemaus - team presentation, Dr. Matthias Reinschmidt accessed on January 7, 2014.