Interview 34015 – Caption Index: 79
Now when did you start thinking about future planning when you first came?… Read More
Now when did you start thinking about future planning when you first came?… Read More
Or were you starting to develop, did you think you wanted to do a master plan for the zoo?… Read More
Yes. Okay. When did You And of course the subsidy from the city was about 80% in the beginning, but shrink from year to year. So they left the zoo, but they didn’t want to pay anymore. So we had to bring up all money for investigations, for building new… Read More
You said, I must fix this right away. Was it the water?… Read More
Did you, what was the most, when you first got in was the, what was the most important problem?… Read More
Yes. You indicated friends of the zoo, but they’re, they’re, Yeah, of course. Now this zoo was founded in 1860, like other zoos. All other zoos in Germany at that time as a shareholding company. And this worked very well. The shareholders never got a benefit. In the first years… Read More
There was no money anymore and they had to close. But the city was very eager to keep the zoo open. And they bought up about 90% of the shares, 90% of the shares. And it brings up the subsidy. It was the political will that the people of cologne… Read More
From a municipal standpoint?… Read More
Who owns it? How does it run?… Read More
Secondly, we, one year after I became director in 82, we founded a Society of Friends of the Zoo to get money by membership, by sponsorship. And this helped us, in fact to to to build new exhibits. And the first one was the Great Ape exhibit, which was opened… Read More
So can you talk a little bit about the structure and management of the zoo?… Read More
I mean they did their jobs better, but sometimes it was a little bit to convince them. When we started new methods, like the coordinated breeding programs, for instance, the breeding loan method, you know that you are not anymore owner of your own animals. You give that to the… Read More
So when you became the director, were there management issues that you had to deal with right from the beginning?… Read More
Well, one of our greatest problems were finances. And I don’t remember the exact number, exact fi figure. We paid a lot of money for water, I think some 10% of the oil. So this was incredible. And we started to save money by not cleaning every, every stall with… 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
Anything that you did to try and manage these people and to help them do their jobs?… Read More
What, what kind of leader were you, in your opinion?… 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
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