East Berlin Tierpark, 1, 2–3, 4–6, 81, 107, 108, 112, 143, 150, 151–58, 165, 175, 197, 215–18, 226. See also Dathe, Heinrich, as director of East Berlin Tierpark Alfred Brehm House at, 113–15, 154–55, 157, 187, 192
animal species in, 46–48, 50, 52, 83–89, 98, 151, 155, 156–58, 215–16, 220–21, 228
director’s villa in, 92–93, 208
failed tapir house project of, 155–58, 188
forced retirement of Dathe from, 210–12, 213–14, 223
as largest zoo in the world, 44, 87, 154
new state ownership of, 215
opening of, 51, 53, 55, 60, 86, 87, 98, 155, 202
pachyderm house in, 192–96, 207, 228
planning and construction of, 35, 38–50, 156, 159
popularity of, 88, 107
snake farm of, 87–88, 216
staff of, 87, 96–97, 165, 188, 193–94, 201, 205, 209, 211, 216
East Germany, 3, 22, 32, 38, 71, 73, 81, 98, 143–45, 184, 192, 204 centralized state structure of, 98, 150
Culture Ministry of, 91, 149
defection of families from, 48, 102–5, 107–8, 201
economic and leadership problems of, 2, 33, 34, 83, 158, 188, 203
exchange of animals between China and, 99–100, 173–81, 226
fortieth anniversary of, 198
Interior Ministry of, 35, 128
merchant fleet of, 99
militias and security forces of, 108
National Defense Ministry of, 97
People’s Chamber legislature of, 52, 145
Politburo of, 4, 34, 113, 122, 196
protests in, 196, 197
State Security Ministry of, See Stasi
Ebert, Friedrich, Jr., 4, 53, 97, 114
Ecuador, 138, 140, 142, 190
eels, 49–50
Elbe River, 130, 137, 159
Elbe Sandstone Mountains, 184
elephants, 1–2, 11, 12, 52, 63–66, 83, 89, 92, 94, 146, 155, 156, 168, 188, 192, 193–96, 197, 212, 228–29
endangered species, 137, 141, 219
Engelmann, Irene, 53–54
Erfurt Zoo, 149, 206
Europe: Eastern and Western Blocs in, 97–98
zoos in, 15, 52, 85, 89–90, 115
Fascism, 42
Fechner, Herbert, 39, 40, 41, 44, 46, 47
Federal Intelligence Service, 106
Federal Republic of Germany, See West Germany
fish, 110, 158–59, 161, 167, 168
fishers, 191–92
flamingos, 68
Flipper (TV show), 127
Fockelmann, Otto, 67–69, 90
foxes, 68, 115, 126
Frädrich, Hans, 179
France, 179, 229 postwar German occupation zone of, 18, 22, 62
Frankfurt, 9, 62, 71, 84–85
Frankfurt Zoo, 60, 61–62, 85, 228 Grzimek as director of, 60, 62, 98, 134, 166
Französisches Gymnasium, 125
Frecki (fox), 68
Free German Trade Union Federation, 204
Free German Youth, 52
Free University, 59, 123, 125
Freischütz, Der (Weber), 101
French Cathedral, 188
Friedrichsfelde, 39, 40–41, 44, 47, 51–53, 79, 81, 85–86, 88, 92, 95, 112–15, 146, 152, 154, 159, 163, 165, 177, 204, 208, 210–11, 215–16, 222, 228
Friedrich Wilhelm University, 19, 60
Friendship with Animals (Klös), 67
Friendship with Animals (radio show), 58
From Russia with Love (film), 132
Gabriel, Sigmar, 220
garpikes, 9, 74
Gärtnerpost, 85
Gay Science, The (Nietzsche), 215
gazelles, 125
geese, 68, 192
General-Anzeiger Elberfeld-Barmen, 62
Genscher, Hans-Dietrich, 197
German Academy of Sciences, 87
German Democratic Republic, See East Germany
German Federation of Zoo Directors, 79, 98, 175–76, 203, 219
German Society for Mammalian Biology, 166
Germany: See also East Germany; West Germany four postwar occupation zones of, 18, 22, 31, 62
Nazi, 7–11, 14–15
Saxony region of, 36, 37, 87, 91, 105
Gethsemane Church, 197
Gewalt, Wolfgang, 124–30, 204 as Duisburg Zoo director, 1, 126–30, 132–34, 136–37, 141–42, 163, 206, 227
gibbons, 109
Giessen, 62, 205
giraffes, 9, 20, 24, 52, 74, 84, 134
goats, 117, 146
gorillas, 5, 41–42, 125, 137, 160
Göring, Hermann, 5, 42–43, 176 animal breeding projects of, 8
pet lion cub of, 7–8
Götting, Gerald, 145
Graffunder, Heinz, 15, 43–44, 46, 47–49, 192–7
Granin, Daniil, 153–54
Great Britain, postwar German occupation zone of, 18, 22, 62
Greece, 25
Greenwood, Alex, 221
Grete (hippo), 22–23
Grotewohl, Otto, 35
Grummt, Wolfgang, 87, 116, 210
Grzimek, Bernhard, 71, 90, 131, 141, 145 as Frankfurt Zoo director, 60, 62, 98, 134, 166
guanacos, 52
Hagenbeck, Carl, 42, 46, 228
Hagenbeck animal trading company, 90
Hagenbeck circus, 62
Halle, 87, 130, 197
Halle Zoo, 35, 48, 52, 59, 98, 99, 149
Hamburg, 42, 67, 100, 111
Hamburg American Line, 100
Hamburger Abendblatt, 180
Hamburg Zoo, 42, 228
Hanover, 10, 106, 163, 206
Hanover Zoo, 4, 125, 148, 163, 217–18, 226
Happy (panda), 84, 85
Hase, Karl-Günther von, 135
Havel River, 118
Heck, Heinz, 8
Heck, Ludwig, 9, 60, 221
Heck, Lutz, 5, 13–14, 15, 16, 29 as director of Berlin Zoological Garden, 7–10, 28, 42–43, 175–76, 182, 183, 221
Heimattiergärten (domestic animal gardens), 149, 150, 218
Heinemann, Gustav, 4, 174
Heinroth, Katharina, 11–14, 16–25, 53, 95, 163 background and education of, 11–12, 29
character and personality of, 12, 14, 17, 21–22, 26–27, 28, 42
critics of, 26–27, 29, 30
death of, 227
as director of Berlin Zoological Garden, 19–30, 41–43, 57–61, 70, 72–74, 173, 227
rape of, 16
Heinroth, Oskar, 11, 12, 13–14, 16–17, 19, 59, 227
Hellabrunn Zoo, 8
Henselmann, Hermann, 43
Herre, Wolf, 166–67
Heuss, Theodor, 174
hippopotamuses, 5, 11, 12, 17, 22–24, 30, 57, 58, 73, 74, 84, 156, 185–86, 192
Hitler, Adolf, 8
Ho Chi Minh, 92
horses, 15, 16, 24, 62, 144, 219
Hua Guofeng, 178
Hudson Bay, 136
Humboldt University, 125, 167, 222
Hungary, 196, 206
“Hyena Heinrich,” 152
hyenas, 68, 99, 100, 190
ibises, 151
India, 24, 52 Kaziranga National Park in, 90
nature reserves in, 89
Indian chain viper, 112
Indonesia, 190, 218
International Film Festival, 71
International Union of Directors of Zoological Gardens, 27, 86–87, 115, 116
International Zoo Journal, 116
Iron Curtain, 6, 137, 148
jacobitas, 136
Japan, 17
Jiao Qing (panda), 226
Jones, Marvin, 116
Juhnke, Harald, 185
Justus Liebig University, 62
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, 12
Kassel, University of, 6
Keil, Heinz, 38
Kennedy, John F., 107–8, 110
Kennedy, Robert F., 110–11
KGB, 181
Khrushchev, Nikita, 10
8
Kiel University, 166
Klös, Heiner, 124, 175, 221, 227
Klös, Heinz-Georg, 63–81, 98, 147, 206. See also Berlin Zoological Garden, Klös as director of character and personality of, 3–5, 78, 104, 165, 169, 172–73, 177, 209–10
Dathe’s rivalry with, 2–3, 79–80, 89, 114, 165, 166, 202–3, 221, 223
death of, 222
as director of Osnabrück Zoo, 67–71, 73
family of, 174–75, 182
military service and imprisonment of, 61
Philipp’s relationship with, 78, 91, 127, 176–77
physical appearance of, 70, 73, 126, 222
veterinary medicine background of, 3–4, 62, 67, 74
Klös, Susanne, 175
Klös, Ursula, 71, 73, 178
Knautschke (hippo), 5, 11, 17, 22, 24, 30, 74, 185–86
Knieriem, Andreas, 218
Knottnerus-Meyer, Theodor, 42
Knut (polar bear), 5, 220–21
Kohl, Helmut, 206, 218
Köhler, Horst, 218
Komodo dragons, 218
Köpenick Consumers’ Cooperative, 52
Kosko (elephant), 92, 228
Krack, Erhard, 196
Krefeld Zoo, 160
Kuhnert, Wilhelm, 78
Landois, Hermann, 60
Lang, Ernst, 115, 123
Lange, Jürgen, 3, 166–73
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, 221
Leipzig, 3, 4, 9, 15, 22, 24, 26, 35–37, 44, 87, 95–99, 150–51, 165, 194, 200–201, 205
Leipzig, University of, 36, 87, 144
Leipzig-Grünau Church, 198
Leipzig Opera, 101
Leipzig Zoo, 45, 46, 48, 71, 98, 102, 127, 139, 143, 144, 149, 217–18 Adler at, 143, 144, 159–60, 197–200
Dathe at, 35–38, 48, 54–55, 95–96
Dittrich as deputy director of, 96–99, 105, 107, 125–26, 159
great ape house in, 100–101, 159, 160
Schneider as director of, 15, 22, 26, 35–39, 43, 46–47, 49, 54–55, 87, 99
primate section of, 197
staff of, 150
lemurs, 218
Leninism, 212
Lenné, Peter Joseph, 39–40, 228
leopards, 57–58, 194
lions, 7–8, 9, 12, 46–47, 68, 75, 83, 99, 100, 114, 194, 197
Litfin, Günter, 122
llamas, 52, 154
London, 178, 226
London Zoo, 225
Lorenz, Konrad, 164
Los Angeles, Calif., 190–91
Lübke, Heinrich, 111, 173–74
macaques, lion-tailed, 68
Madrid, 178
Magdeburg Zoo, 149, 158–59
Magistrate of Greater Berlin, 18–19, 35, 38
Mao (alligator), 114, 228
Marxism, 212
Matern, Bernd, 117–19, 121–23, 228
Medium Terzett, 135
Melani, 128
Melody of a Great City, 10
Melville, Herman, 129
Meng Meng (panda), 226
Mexico City, 178
Meyer-Holzapfel, Monika, 115
Mielke, Erich, 97, 107
Moby Dick (white whale), 129
Mongolia, 219
moose, 118–20
Morgen, Gerd, 118–21, 123, 137, 141
Moscow, 34, 84, 193, 226
Moscow Zoo, 97, 226
“Movie Star” (song), 162
Mülheim an der Ruhr, 227
Müller, Patric, 193–95, 197, 204, 205, 228
Münchhausen, 10
Munich, 8, 132, 138
Münster, 60, 159–60 Prinzipalmarkt in, 205
Münster Zoological Garden, 60, 159–60, 205, 225
muntjacs, 155
Naas, Josef, 19
Nacht-Depesche, 112
National People’s Army, East German, 97, 109, 122
National Socialism, 9, 36, 67, 176
National Zoo (Washington, D.C.), 178
Nazi Party, 5, 7, 9, 15, 18, 27, 36–37, 38, 54, 97
Nehru, Jarwaharlal (Pandit), 24
Nepal, 89, 190
Neues Deutschland, 32, 52, 55, 111, 207, 208, 212
Neue Welt, Die, 154
Neue Zeit, 132, 214, 215
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 215
Nile River, 17
1977 Assessment of Humane Treatment of Mammalians, 166
Nixon, Richard, 178
Noah’s Ark-Steerage (Smeets), 67
No Place for Wild Animals (film), 131
northern pudus, 141, 142
North Korea, 177
North Vietnam, 92
okapis, 190
Oktoberfest, 23–24, 25–26, 112–13, 172
Olga (hippo), 22–23
orangutans, 93, 147, 160
Orinoco River, 136
Osnabrück, 3, 69, 71, 77
Osnabrück Zoo, 61, 73 Klös as director of, 67–71, 75
ostriches, 52, 91
Overheard at the Tierpark (radio show), 86
owls, 137, 215
Pakistan, 138
Palace of the Republic, 192
pandas, 83–86, 177–81, 218, 219, 225–26 diet of, 85, 179
German acquisition of, 84–85, 180–81
Papua New Guinea, 142
parasitology, 59
Paris, 178
parrots, 20, 23, 50, 162, 173–74
Pechstein, Max, 164
pelicans, 68, 190
penguins, 20, 158–59, 163
People’s Police, 198
Pervukhin, Mikhail, 35
Peter Lenné School, 228
Petzold, Hans-Günter, 87
Petzsch, Hans, 98–99
Philipp, Werner, 31–34, 77–78, 85 relationship of Klös and, 78, 91, 127, 176–77
Philippines, 132, 142
Pieck, Wilhelm, 53
pigs, 79
Pirna, 184
Poland, 96, 196
polar bears, 52, 69, 88, 220–21
Prague, 147, 165, 196, 197
Przewalski’s horses, 219
Puschmann, Wolfgang, 204
Radke, Otto, 29
Red Army, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 48, 109
Reich Forestry Office, 8
reindeer, 17, 23
Reuter, Ernst, 181
Rhineland-Palatinate, 62
Rhine River, 127, 128, 129–30, 132–34, 136
rhinoceroses, 13, 26, 84, 89–91, 151, 154, 156, 190, 192, 222
Rieck, Walter, 28
Riedel, Gustav, 75
Rieke (giraffe), 20, 74
Rohn, Karin, 50–51
Roscher, Mieke, 6
Rostock, 127, 149, 204
Rotterdam, 128, 134, 146
round worm infestations, 160
Royal Air Force, 7
Ruhe, Hermann, 90–91, 105, 141
Ruhe animal trading company, 125
Ruhr River, 127, 130, 131
St. Nicholas Church, 198
Salim (elephant), 194
San Diego Zoo, 216, 227
Schabowski, Günter, 4, 200–201
Schmetz, Martha (Marte Smeets), 67
Schmidt, Helmut, 178, 179, 180
Schmidt, Loki, 178, 180
Schmidt-Hoensdorf, Fritz, 59, 70–71
Schmitt, Erich, 156, 157–58
Schneider, Karl Max, 41–43 death and funeral of, 55, 57, 87, 96, 99
as Leipzig Zoo director, 15, 22, 26, 35–39, 43, 46–47, 49, 54–55, 87, 99
Schnitzler, Karl-Eduard von, 145
Scholz, “Bubi,” 164
Schönke, Gerhard, 75
Schorfheide forest, 8
Schröder, Werner, 19, 53, 72, 175, 203 aquarium rebuilt and directed by, 25–26, 27, 58, 112, 123–24, 161–65, 170–73
as managing director of Berlin Zoological Garden, 19, 23, 25–27, 30, 58, 61
Schroeder, Louise, 29
Schütz, Klaus, 174
Schwabbel (hippo), 24
Schwarz, Dieter, 204
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Schweitzer, Albert, 138
Schwerin Zoo, 149
seals, 110, 142
Seifert, Siegfried, 139–44, 146–47, 198–200
Semyonov, Vladimir, 178–79
Sender Freies Berlin (radio station), 181
Serengeti Shall Not Die (film), 131
Shanti (elephant), 24–25, 26
sheep, 100, 117
shoebills, 17
Siam (elephant), 11, 17, 24
Siberia, 98, 140
Sievers-Schröder, Inge, 175, 203
sloths, 26, 36
snakes, 87–88, 140, 152–53, 187, 216
Social Democrat Party, 15, 131, 134–35
socialism, 4, 22, 33, 35, 51, 93, 113, 130, 148, 200
Socialist Unity Party, 4, 32, 34, 102, 111, 150, 199, 200, 203 central committee of, 107, 113
Söhnker, Hans, 164
South America, 138, 142
South Cemetery, 57
Soviet Union, 21, 96, 109, 119, 178–79 deteriorating relations between U.S. and, 107–8
postwar German occupation zone of, 18, 78, 107
tensions between China and, 100
spectacled bears, 52, 190
Spiegel, Der, 2, 29, 111, 133, 181
springtails, 12
SS (Schutzstaffel), 7
Stachelschweine cabaret group, 164
Stalin, Joseph, 39, 100
Stasi, 4, 52, 53–55, 88, 97, 101–2, 103–5, 107, 115–16, 121, 122, 140, 153, 188–90, 198, 200
State-Owned Enterprise for Elbe Natural Stone, 184
State-Owned Painting and Glazing Company, 52
State-Owned Refrigeration Company, 52
Stoph, Willi, 97
storks, 17, 52, 98
Stummer, Martin, 137–41, 142
Stuttgart, 140, 167–71, 205–6
Stuttgart Aquarium, 167–68
Süddeutsche Zeitung, 132, 145
Suez Canal Crisis, 100
swans, 87, 149
Switzerland, 89–90, 115, 148
Symposium on the Disorders of Zoo Animals and Wildlife, 148, 190
Tagesspiegel, Der, 28, 29–30, 71, 176
tapirs, 13, 26, 124, 138–40, 142
Tasmanian devils, 9
taz, 181
Teddy (brown bear), 68
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