block stamp: 150th birthday of Carl Hagenbeck;150 years of the Berlin Zoo - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1994 - 100 Pfennig

Carl Gottfried Heinrich Hagenbeck was born on 10 June 1844 in Hamburg as the eldest son of the fishmonger Gottfried Clas Carl Hagenbeck. There he saw as a four-year-old the first seals, which his father put on display. They had gone Finkenwerder fishermen into the net. His father occasionally bought exotic animals from seafarers and started his initially modest pet trade business. Carl Hagenbeck took over this business from his father as a twenty-year-old and turned it into the largest animal trading company in the world. He equipped his own animal-catching expeditions and maintained numerous outposts around the world. In 1875 a Lapland family accompanied a reindeer transport to Hamburg; That was the first in a series of terrific international shows. The intensive occupation with animals led to the invention of the "tame dressage", the still valid method for training animals by kindness and reward. In 1887 the circus Carl Hagenbeck was founded, and in 1892 the tradesman Eduard W. H. Deyerling introduced a group of predators according to the new method for the first time. By training, Carl Hagenbeck was able to accurately determine the jump distances of lions, tigers and other exotics. So he developed the gridless outdoor installation and patented this invention in 1896. In 1907 he fulfilled his dream of the first latticed animal park in the world. In Stellingen Hagenbecks zoo was opened. His then revolutionary idea of ​​displaying exotic animals in landscapes reshaping their natural habitat was adopted worldwide. It is still valid today in outline. Carl Hagenbeck died on April 14, 1913 in Hamburg. (Text: Tierpark Carl Hagenbeck GmbH, Hamburg)