1. Bernhard Grzimek wrote another book Kein Platz fur wilde Tiere [No Place for Wild Animals] which was later produced as a documentary on the problems of African wildlife.
76 Facts About Bernhard Grzimek
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Bernhard Grzimek was involved in popularizing African wildlife and was involved in wildlife conservation in Africa, particularly in Serengeti.
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Bernhard Grzimek served as a government advisor on conservation and campaigned against the use of animal furs for fashion.
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Bernhard Grzimek's father Paul Franz Constantin Grzimek was a lawyer, judicial councilor, and civil law notary.
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Bernhard Grzimek was the fifth born from this second marriage after Brigitte, Franziska, Notker and Ansgar.
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The Polish speaking Bernhard Grzimek family came from Upper Silesia where they were farmers and landowners.
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Bernhard Grzimek had been educated at Breslau, Marburg, and Berlin.
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Bernhard Grzimek's father was politically active, a debater, and a supporter of the Catholic Center Party.
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Bernhard Grzimek had been offered a position in the Reichstag but had refused it due to a heart condition.
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Bernhard Grzimek opposed many of Bismarck's policies including the separation of the church and state.
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The home had an extensive library which Bernhard Grzimek explored from an early age.
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Bernhard Grzimek spent time in the country on holidays with "aunt" Hedwig, the second wife of his grandfather Joseph, stepmother of his father.
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Bernhard Grzimek joined an animal breeding association where he took a special interest in Antwerp Bearded Bantams.
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Bernhard Grzimek spent two more years with his mother, travelling around by bicycle and learning to ride a horse.
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Bernhard Grzimek contributed articles to the magazine Geflugel-Borse and wrote a pamphlet on breeding bantams.
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Bernhard Grzimek passed his abitur in 1928, not doing well in mathematics but excelling in German.
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Bernhard Grzimek often took his cousin's children to Berlin zoo and received free tickets from the zoo director Ludwig Heck.
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Shortly after the wedding Bernhard Grzimek received an offer to visit the US to study poultry farms on behalf of the Prussian Ministry of Agriculture.
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Bernhard Grzimek was supported by Geflugel-Borse and by Spratt's Dog Biscuit Factory.
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Bernhard Grzimek travelled, sea sick, aboard ship and spent some time in New York.
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Bernhard Grzimek finally received his doctorate in 1933 with a thesis on the arteries of the domestic chicken.
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Bernhard Grzimek then joined as an expert in the Prussian ministry of agriculture.
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Bernhard Grzimek wrote several small books on poultry keeping and the breeding of chickens.
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Bernhard Grzimek received 1000 Reichmarks for this writing and he became widely popular.
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Hollbach even supported Bernhard Grzimek to have a second servant so that he could have more time to write.
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Bernhard Grzimek got Hildegard to write some of the material on his behalf.
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Bernhard Grzimek tried to obtain an academic position but he was rejected in 1936.
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Bernhard Grzimek however published his habilitation findings in a journal.
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Bernhard Grzimek wrote a book on poultry diseases which was to be the last of his purely scientific books.
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Bernhard Grzimek's mother died in 1936 and following that he gave up the Catholic church and later called himself a "convinced atheist".
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Bernhard Grzimek had an affair with his secretary which affected Hildegard's health so much that she had to be admitted into a health spa in 1935.
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Bernhard Grzimek had a daughter and a son through this relationship.
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Bernhard Grzimek's adopted black son Thomas had troubles from a long time.
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Bernhard Grzimek had been sent for some time to Uganda and in 1976 he was sent to study hotel management in Switzerland and was arrested for heroin trafficking.
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Bernhard Grzimek served a six month sentence in prison during which he attempted suicide.
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In 1937 Bernhard Grzimek was trained as part of the Wehrmacht, with six-week training in Lubben after which he was made a non-commissioned officer with the 9th Cavalry Regiment in Furstenwalde-Spree.
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Bernhard Grzimek's superiors came to his rescue but he was demoted to a position that oversaw the movement of freezers until he was moved back to the ministry in 1938.
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Bernhard Grzimek became involved in an effort to manage bovine tuberculosis using isolation and vaccination techniques.
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Ula attacked Bernhard Grzimek who had returned home with a beard and shortly afterwards died of anemia.
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Bernhard Grzimek trained the wolf for a role in the film Tiefland along with Leni Riefenstahl.
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Bernhard Grzimek was then posted in Berlin to conduct psychological evaluations of horses under veterinarian General Kurt Schulze.
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Bernhard Grzimek found that the horses were lost in unknown territory, something that Fellgiebel thought was very obvious.
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Bernhard Grzimek was asked to give lectures on animal psychology at the Hanover veterinary school.
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Bernhard Grzimek hid in the home of his lover along with their daughter.
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In November 1947, Bernhard Grzimek was questioned about his membership in the NSDAP by the US military government, and here he denied it.
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Bernhard Grzimek was then removed from office in the Frankfurt Zoo, fined, and sent for denazification.
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Bernhard Grzimek was then reinstated at the Zoo by the US government but his reputation was compromised as there was a NSDAP entry as a candidate but not as a member; following a 1949 lawsuit Grzimek was given a fine.
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Bernhard Grzimek was appointed director of the Frankfurt Zoological Garden on 1 May 1945 by Hollbach.
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Walter Kolb became the mayor in August 1946 and he received a letter from Heck claiming that Bernhard Grzimek had no qualification as a zoologist.
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The driver who helped Bernhard Grzimek escape from Berlin testified that Bernhard Grzimek hid Jews and provided them with food.
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Wilhelm Holbach testified that Bernhard Grzimek had refused to write for the media organized by the Nazi party.
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Oskar Hoppe in the meantime claimed that Bernhard Grzimek had made irregular sales and made money from the zoo.
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Bernhard Grzimek claimed that a white elephant which was in transit across Euripe would be on display at the zoo.
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In 1950, Bernhard Grzimek attended the International Association of Zoo Directors meeting in London, one of three from Germany along with Karl Max Schneider and Katharina Heinroth.
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Bernhard Grzimek founded a Society of Friends of the Zoological Garden.
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Bernhard Grzimek made use of the society to promote a lottery and 1.7 million tickets were sold and 480,000 marks was earned.
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Bernhard Grzimek continued to lead the Zoo for 29 years, until his retirement on 30 April 1974.
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Bernhard Grzimek made it into one of the largest zoological gardens in Germany.
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Bernhard Grzimek visited Rancho Grande and in 1953 he revisited and stayed with Ernst Schafer.
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Bernhard Grzimek was asked by the Venezuelan government for advice on setting up a zoo in Caracas.
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Bernhard Grzimek is significant for the conservation work he undertook in the Serengeti.
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Bernhard Grzimek spent several years studying its wildlife there alongside his son Michael, especially on observation and counts of large scale annual migrations.
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Bernhard Grzimek wrote a best-selling book, Serengeti Shall Not Die, which first appeared in German in 1959 and later in 20 other languages.
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Bernhard Grzimek began a campaign against the use of furs in fashion in 1965.
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Bernhard Grzimek wrote an open letter about the use of a leopard coat by the Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida and this was widely reprinted.
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Bernhard Grzimek received support from the wife of the German president Wilhelmine Lubke who agreed not to use fur coats.
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Bernhard Grzimek began a campaign against the killing of harp seal pups in Canada.
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Bernhard Grzimek made a donation of $5,000 to the New Brunswick Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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Bernhard Grzimek showed footage on the killing of skins which led to outrage and the creation of legislation in Canada to protect harp seals.
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Bernhard Grzimek opposed the use of battery cages for chickens and later campaigned for free range chicken.
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Years earlier, it had actually been Bernhard Grzimek who had prescribed the use of wire cages for keeping chickens, claiming that coccidosis was avoided as the droppings fell through the cage.
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Bernhard Grzimek died in Frankfurt am Main in 1987 while watching the Williams-Althoff Circus.
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Bernhard Grzimek wanted to photograph the Siberian tigers and Rainer Westphal, the press officer for the circus tried to get him a seat in the box.
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Bernhard Grzimek was cremated and his ashes were later transferred to Tanzania and buried next to his son Michael at the Ngorongoro Crater.
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Bernhard Grzimek was the editor-in-chief of Bernhard Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia, a massive and monumental encyclopedia of animal life.
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Bernhard Grzimek authored a large number of popular books based on his countless experiences with animals which he raised since his student days, managed as zoo director, and encountered in the wild during many research trips.