Richard Sawade
Carl Richard Sawade (born October 2, 1868 in Zerbow , Sternberg district , † February 8, 1947 in Hamburg-Lokstedt ) was a German predator tamer and general director at the Hagenbeck Zoo .
Life
Richard Sawade was one of the children of the village teacher in Zerbow. He first attended the College of Teacher Education in Berlin, he became a zookeeper and animal keepers at Hagenbeck one in Hamburg and went to the Hagenbeck Zoo on tour . After several weeks of cruise he took in 1893 at the World's Fair World's Columbian Exposition in part and first appeared on the ring in Chicago on. Then he got an engagement as a trainer.
On August 28, 1899, he married Carolina Ornstein in Stockholm .
During a tour in Kristiania in 1916 Edvard Munch created the lithograph Tigertemmerden Sawade / The Tiger Tamer Sawade .
Queen Alexandra of England baptized his King Tiger in her name. After the end of the war in 1918, Richard Sawade was appointed General Director of the Hagenbeck Zoo.
literature
- Richard Sawade. In: Heinz W. Linke: Rittergutsdörfer Kohlow, Zerbow, Schmagorei and Lieben . Book-on-Demand , Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-6786-6 , p. 311.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Death register StA Hamburg-Lokstedt, No. 60/1947
- ↑ Edvard Munch: Tigertemmeren Sawade. 1916, Retrieved April 9, 2014 (Norwegian).
- ↑ A queen named Sawade's tiger. Der Spiegel, February 15, 1947, accessed April 9, 2014 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sawade, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German tamer and general director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 2, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zerbow , Sternberg district |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 8, 1947 |
| Place of death | Hamburg-Lokstedt |