Heinrich Fockelmann pet shop

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Pet shop Fockelmann
legal form
founding 1868
Seat Hamburg
Branch Wildlife trade

The Heinrich Fockelmann pet shop was founded in Hamburg in 1868 and specialized in particular in fine finches . Many species were first imported by the action of Germany, so 1874 ortygospiza , 1876 Pünktchenamarante , 1886 blue-faced parrotfinch and in the 1920s Gelbbauchastrilde . Other imports included the red breast seed cracker and the seed cracker in 1878 . The trader had many other exotic animals caught in South America and India. The pet shop, which was run as a chain store with up to nine branches, also had a zoological preparation workshop and, alongside Hagenbeck and Ruhe , was one of the oldest zoological pet shops in Germany until the mid-1980s.

history

Founding years and development

Magnificent finches - specialty of company founder Heinrich Fockelmann

Heinrich Fockelmann founded owner HF Fockelmann in 1868 under the company name " H. Fockelmann. Dealership of exotic and domestic birds, parrots, monkeys etc. etc. " Herrengraben 1, corner of Michaelisbrücke. T.-A. Fockelmann opened a pet shop in Hamburg.

In Groß Borstel , between 1906 and the 1930s, they used the Petersenpark Lustpark , named after a senator for their zoo , which was later named after Ad. Strüver Aggregatebau was acquired.

For 1938, in addition to the main branch at Beim Strohhause 69 other branches are occupied at Alter Steinweg 26, Am Steintor 84, Große Bergstraße 197, Hamburger Straße 194, Mönckebergstraße 13, Reeperbahn 143, shoulder blade 60 and Steindamm 73 in Hamburg.

After the Second World War, the company was established on the German market alongside Hagenbeck and Ruhe and in 1968 had five sales outlets.

In 1970 there is an entry for the pet shop in the Official Telephone Book 2 for the local network Hamburg 1970/71 with the addresses Mönckebergstrasse 13 and Große Bergstrasse 193 in Hamburg and is no longer noted with the edition of the Hamburg address book 1974/75 .

Separation and establishment of the August Fockelmann pet shop

Fockelmann's son August Fockelmann ran the business with his brother and company owner Henri Fockelmann († 1936) (also Henry Fockelmann) and in 1896 founded the August Fockelmann pet shop - zoological wholesaling , but remained connected to his parents' company.

literature

  • Hans Bungartz: New items in our zoo that are particularly worth seeing . In: Hamburger Zoo-Zeitung, Volume 1, 1928, pp. 25-27.
  • Nigel Rothfels: Savages and Beasts. The Birth of the Modern Zoo , Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD 2002, ISBN 0-8018-6910-2 , Google Books (limited preview), accessed February 14, 2014.
  • O. Fockelmann: A panda shipment in 1938 . In: Heinz-Georg Klös (Ed.): Proceedings of the International Symposium on the Giant Panda, Berlin Sept. 28 - Oct. 1, 1984 , Bongo Volume 10 (special volume), Berlin 1985, pp. 7-12, OCLC 75011009 .
  • Winfried Gensch: Development of the keeping of wild animals and tasks of the zoological gardens . In: Gotthart Berger (Ed.): Zoo animal keeping, basics, Volume 1 , VEB Deutscher Landwirtschaftsverlag, Berlin (East) 1987, ISBN 3-331-00087-6 , pp. 13-25.
  • Christian Matschei: Witnesses to the zoo's history - the Menagerie du Jardin des Plantes and the Parc Zoologique de Paris . In: Ursus, Mitteilungsblatt des Zooverein und des Zoo Schwerin , Volume 16, Issue 1 (July 2010), pp. 37–44, here p. 42, online , accessed on February 14, 2014.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Animal trade in Meyer's Grosse Konversations-Lexikon (accessed on February 13, 2014)
  2. ↑ Directory of participants in the telephone networks in the Hamburg Oberpostdirektion district. March 1904
  3. ^ The company history in numbers ( Memento from July 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 18, 2014
  4. ↑ H. Fockelmann. Deal with exotic and domestic birds, parrots, monkeys etc. etc. Owner HF Fockelmann. Herrengraben 1, corner of Michaelisbrücke. T.-A. Fockelmann. , accessed February 13, 2014
  5. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt from 21/22. September 1968 , accessed February 13, 2014
  6. ↑ Traute Matthes-Walk: Groß Borstels pleasure gardens part 2
  7. ↑ Official telephone directory for the Reichspostdirektionsgebiet Hamburg 1938
  8. ^ Benjamin Lamp: Development of zoo animal medicine in German-speaking countries. Laufersweiler Verlag, Giessen 2009 Tierhandel und Tierfang , S.114 - Online , ISBN 3-8359-5504-7 , accessed on February 13, 2014
  9. ^ Official telephone directory 2 for the local network Hamburg 1970/71
  10. ↑ Hamburg address book. Economic u. Company manual. Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, issue of the greater Hamburg area. 1974/1975
  11. ↑ Directory of participants in the telephone networks in the Hamburg Oberpostdirektion district. June 1896