Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 65
So as the new director, did you have any kind of tricks to help manage the people that were working under you?… Read More
So as the new director, did you have any kind of tricks to help manage the people that were working under you?… Read More
Well, I learned very much from the books of Edgar and I all my time as a director. I, from time to time, looked into what Hegar had said. Otherwise I had in the few first years, very few contacts to my German colleagues. And the one who pulled me… Read More
So I was adopted as a member of Wza and very soon I was president, not chairman of the membership committee from many years. And by this I was a member of the board of of, of the ZA and involved in everything. Read More
What, what kind of leader were you, in your opinion?… Read More
With no previous meaningful zoo experience, They were certainly very skeptical. But on the other hand, some of the animal keepers knew me from my time as a student working myself as a animal keeper. Well, and I had a quite well reputation. And of course this rule the long… Read More
What was your management style?… Read More
So I was welcome, very skeptical in the first years. Now we’ve talked about it a little bit. You are new, you are now the director of the zoo, you had to manage this zoo. Read More
It was a little old fashioned, my, my pre-processor, he was not very successful. He didn’t develop the zoo in a proper way and he had brought up the whole stuff against him so they couldn’t continue with them. Read More
And when you became the director, how did the staff react to you as director?… Read More
What kind of zoo did you find when you came to Cologne?… Read More
So our careers are so similar that I thought they never take somebody from the university anymore. And why they did, I don’t know. Read More
This is also amazing. This was Ant Coolman. He was a spider specialist. He came from the university, he had founded the zoo in Kabul and then he was a director, the head of the Department of Zoology in Ro, not in Rostock, in K in the north of Germany. Read More
And who did you replace, who was the director before you?… Read More
Practically, I was my, my term at the university ended with my rehabilitation and I had to look for a job and I still keep a file of applications in my home in universities and also zoos, which originally had me my wish to work in a zoo. So this… Read More
And this was mainly my part, but I was involved also in research project field projects in which is in nowadays, what do you call it now, the upper, it was named Zo Boso. There was one successful project run by the Americans, by the way, in Tonga, Tanzania there,… Read More
And what prompted you to say I want to leave university teaching and go be the head of a zoo?… Read More
And these were mostly the countries which had colonies, France, Belgium, England, red Berlin, not in America, there was nobody at that time. So they didn’t have any relation to have to to ies. So I started a new breeding of ies. We had to self-sustaining colony of IES for… Read More
Yes. My prof professor, well he actually asked me to work on these ies, he was one of the first entomologists working with isotopes, you know, radioisotopes. And he marked food and looked how it spread in a colony of ants, et cetera. And he gave courses even for the… Read More
And you said zoos are important to developing countries?… Read More
Yes. Because it’s somewhere for people to go. Yeah. So they learn to know their own fauna and they don’t have any chance on their own to go to the wild and see bits or a mountain goats or Marco or whatever. Marco Polo. And you left Afghanistan because your… Read More