August Fockelmann pet shop

The August Fockelmann pet shop was founded in 1896 with the business address Gärtnerstrasse 72, Hamburg, and supplied Europe with exotic animals, among other things. It has not been proven since 1938.

history

August Fockelmann , the son of Heinrich Fockelmann, the founder of the Heinrich Fockelmann pet shop , ran his father's pet shop together with his brother and company owner Henri Fockelmann (also Henry Fockelmann, † 1936). At the latest after leaving the company (to which he remained connected in business) he founded the August Fockelmann - zoological wholesale trade with the business address Gärtnerstrasse in 1886 . He later bought a plot of land in Eimsbüttel , from which he ran the animal trade. He managed to control almost the entire German trade in parrots for ten years. He also offered great apes, llamas, kangaroos etc. with great success. Around 1908 , Alexander Sokolowsky made his observations about the psyche of the great apes on a gorilla baby in the company's own zoo .

On January 16, 1930, the Schönbrunn Zoo purchased a Lear's Macaw from the pet shop , the range of which was only discovered in 1978 by the ornithologist Helmut Sick . The female hyacinth macaw that lived in the small bird house lived until May 26, 1968 and at the age of 38 was considered the oldest (documented) bird of its kind in Europe.

In the summer of 1931, the company bought the stock of the Hamburg bird park that it had established the previous year and which it had supplied with hummingbirds.

Henry Trefflich was able to impress August Fockelmann with his knowledge of animals and became the manager of his zoo.

August Fockelmann's son Otto Fockelmann took over a panda bear from animal catcher Floyd Tangier Smith in London in 1939 , which he brought to Germany. It was the first animal of its kind shown in Germany. In cooperation with the animal dealer Ruhe from Hanover, the bear was shown under the name Happy in the Berlin Zoological Garden , in the Hanover Zoo , in the Hellabrunn Zoo in Munich , in the Leipzig Zoo and in the Cologne Zoo . It was then exhibited at the Vincennes Zoo ( Paris ) before it was given to the Saint Louis Zoo in St. Louis (USA) in June 1939 , where it died in 1946.

August Fockelmann GmbH

In 1929/30 the "August Fockelmann GmbH" was founded with the business purpose of "animal and bird import wholesaling" based in the Zoological Garden, Tiergartenstrasse in Hamburg, where Otto Fockelmann was the managing director at Jungiusstrasse 32–34 until 1936.

Interested audience

The writer Gustav Meyrink took a postcard dated September 30, 1912 with the request “for your list of parrots. Do you also have black parrots (Coracopsis obscura)? [...] “Contact with August Fockelmann.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Directory of participants in the telephone networks in the Hamburg Oberpostdirektion district. June 1896
2. ^ Postcard from the pet shop , accessed on February 13, 2014
3. ↑ Official telephone directory for the Reichspostdirektionsgebiet Hamburg 1938
4. ↑ Directory of participants in the telephone networks in the Hamburg Oberpostdirektion district. June 1896
5. ^ Postcard from the pet shop , accessed on February 13, 2014.
6. ↑ From Kaiser to Kangaroo - News on the history of the world's oldest zoo. Chapter by Dr. Herbert Schifter "250 Years of Bird Keeping in Schönbrunn Zoo (1752-2002)" ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 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 February 18, 2014 
7. ↑ Robert J. Hoage, William A. Deiss: New Worlds, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth ; P. 61
8. ↑ New items in the bird park that are particularly worth seeing - from April 16 to May 15, 1931
9. ↑ Saint Louis Zoo on giantpandazoo.com ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2015 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 February 13, 2014) 
10. ↑ Official telephone directory for the Hamburg Oberpostdirektion district for 1930  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Official telephone directory for the Reichspostdirektionsgebiet Hamburg 1936

Web links

• An incubating python. , accessed February 17, 2014
• Otto set a record at the Joint Export Import Agency , accessed on February 17, 2014
• Hamburg-Hoheluft, Gärtnerstrasse No. 72 ( Memento of February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 17, 2014