Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck

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Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck in the Schönbrunn Zoo

Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck (born September 29, 1967 in Frankfurt am Main as Stephan Hering ) is a German zoologist . Since 2020 he has been the sole managing director of the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna .

Life

Family background

Due to the professional activity of his father Norbert Hering, Stephan Hering moved to South Africa at the age of five . He describes his childhood there as very formative for his further life. In South Africa his interest in nature and animals was aroused. His first pet was a snake, which he received as a gift from his schoolmates when he was six.

Education and professional career

Stephan Hering studied biology specializing in parasitology in Bochum, Paris and at the Humboldt University in Berlin . During his studies at Humboldt University, he met his wife Bettina Hagenbeck. He returned to Africa for five years to do research in the course of his dissertation on the parasitic fauna of wild reptiles in South Africa.

Work for zoological gardens

The zoologist married Bettina Hagenbeck in 1995 into a family of animal gardeners. The Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg has a long tradition and has developed pioneering innovations such as panoramas and moat systems. In 2000 he became operations manager at the Tierpark Hagenbeck, 2005 managing director and from 2012 to 2018 he was zoological director. During his tenure, he was responsible for numerous construction projects, such as the tropical aquarium (2007), the elephant open-air hall (2006), the New Arctic Ocean (2012), the onager facility (2012) and the kangaroo habitat (2011). Together with his father-in-law Claus Hagenbeck, he designed the Orangutan Dome (2003), an innovative, covered outdoor area. The Tropical Aquarium (€ 21.5 million) and the New Arctic Ocean (€ 20.5 million) were the largest projects that the Hagenbeck Zoo had implemented since it opened in 1907.

In 2015 he founded a general planning and architecture office for zoos and aquariums. With his partner, architect Sezai I. Candan, and his team he developed, among other things, the Polarium in the Rostock Zoo and the elephant enclosure in the Berlin Zoo. In addition, with his expertise in the field of layout design, he has advised zoological gardens worldwide for over 10 years: from Pairi Daiza in Belgium to the Moscow Zoo to the Al Ain Zoo in the United Arab Emirates.

At the end of October 2019, Hering-Hagenbeck was presented by Federal Minister Elisabeth Udolf-Strobl and Wolfgang Schüssel , Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Schönbrunner Tiergarten, as the successor to Dagmar Schratter as Director of Schönbrunn Zoo , and he succeeded her in this role on January 1, 2020.

Memberships

  • Member of the scientific advisory board of the Opel Zoo in Kronberg
  • Member of the advisory board "Citizen Conservation"
  • Founding member of the "Cryo-Brehm" bio-bank for stem cell storage of exotic animals
  • Founding member of RESEARCH CONTRA BLINDHEIT - Initiative Usher Syndrome eV
  • Advisory board member in BAUM eV

Publications (selection)

  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. 2012. Animal facilities through the ages - from creature to fellow creature. Bongo, special volume for the 125th anniversary of the VDZ, pp. 127-139.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. 2012. A review of Elephant Management in European Zoos. 77 Years: The history and Evolution of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums 1935-2012, by Penn, Gusset & Dick, Book. p.132-133.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. 2012. Changes in Elephant Management in European during the last centuries. Manual of the IVY Zoo Symposium, May 17-19, 2012 Abstract. pp.30.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. 2011. Elephant keeping and management in Europe's zoological gardens. Nature and knowledge, messages from the Natural Science Association in Hamburg, 7 (8): 9.
  • GEHRKE, G .; CZEKALLA, C .; HERING-HAGENBECK, S. & Radmann, K.-J. 2011. Cold from well water for the new Arctic Ocean at Hagenbeck Zoo. DVGW annual review, special edition for the German gas and water sector 2011/2012, 2 (12): 54-56.
  • CIBA, P., HERING-HAGENBECK, S. & KRUSE, C. 2010. Investigation and archiving of stem cells from wild animals; here snow leopard (Uncia uncia) and Rothschild giraffe ( Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi ), Der Zoologischer Garten, NF, 79: 132-139.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. & PRAHL, A. 2008. The Persian onager EEP; current situation and future plans. EAZA News, 63:12.
  • GILLE, K. & HERING-HAGENBECK S. 2007. Carl Hagenbeck and the Przewalski horses exploring biological resources in Mongolia, 10: 359-369.
  • LHERMITTE N., BAIN O. & HERING-HAGENBECK S. 2007. Three species of Skrjabinelazia (Nematoda: Seuratidae) parasitic in Gekkonidae and Lacertidae from South Africa, Europe and Australia. Systematic Parasitology, 13: 125-137.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S., BOOMKER, J. & PETTER, A. 2002. Redescription of some Thelandros and Tachygonetria spp. (Pharyngodonidae: Oxyuroidea) from the omnivorous plated lizard, Gerrhosaurus validus validus A. Smith, 1849 in South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 69: 31-51.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S., BOOMKER, J. & PETTER, A. 2002. Redescription of some Spauligodon spp. and Parapharyngodon spp., and of Skrjabinodon mabuyae (Sandground, 1936) Inglis, 1968 (Pharyngodonidae: Oxyuroidea) from insectivorous lizards in South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 69: 7-29.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S., BOOMKER, J. & BAIN, O. 2001. A new nematode Spiruridae, second species of the genus Paraspirura Sandground, 1936 parasite of reptiles; relationships with Protospirura and Spriura, parasites of mammals. Journal of Parasitology, 87: 838-844.
  • PAPERNA, I., BOULARD, I., HERING-HAGENBECK, S. & LANDAU, I. 2001. Fine structure of Leishmania amastingotes found in erythrocytes of the South African gecko Pachydactylus turneri . Parasite.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. & BOOMKER, J. 2000. A check-list of the nematode parasites of South African Serpentes (snakes) and Sauria (lizards). Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 67: 1-13.
  • HERRING HAGENBECK, S., BOOMKER, J., PETIT, J. Killick-Kendrick, M. & BAIN, O. 2000. Description and life cycle of Madathamugadia hiepei n.sp . (Splendidofilariinae: Nematoda), a parasite of a South African gecko. Systematic Parasitology, 47: 207-213.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. & BOOMKER, J. 1998. Spauligodon timbavatiensis n.sp. (Nematoda: Pharyngodonidae) from Pachydactylus turneri (Sauria: Gekkonidae) in the Northern Province, South Africa. Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, 65: 153-158.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. 1998. Unusual feeding behavior of the Common Rough-scaled Lizard (Ichnotropis squamulosa) in captivity. African Herb News, 27: 13-14.
  • HERING-HAGENBECK, S. & SCHUSTER, R. 1996. A focus of opisthorchiidosis in Germany. Applied Parasitology, 37: 260-265.
  • SCHUSTER, R., WANJEK, C. & HERING-HAGENBECK, S. 1998. Examination of carp fish (Cyprinidae) for metacercariae of the family Opisthorchiidae. Announcements of the Austrian Society for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, 20: 123-130.
  • SCHUSTER, R., KAUFMANN, A. & HERING-HAGENBECK, S. 1997. Studies on the endoparasite fauna of domestic cats in East Brandenburg. Berlin and Munich veterinary weekly magazine, 110: 48-50.

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Dr. Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck. In: zoovienna.at. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Hering-Hagenbeck becomes director of the Schönbrunn Zoo. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . October 30, 2019, accessed February 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck. In: leadersnet.at. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Hering-Hagenbeck, Stephan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hering, Stephan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German zoologist
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main