Circus Blumenfeld, located at Königstraße 62/63(Walther-Rathenau-Straße), in Magdeburg, Germany , was founded in 1811 and the first elephant arrived in 1912. The last elephant left in 1928. Circus Blumenfeld closed down in 1928.
I bought back two elephants from that veteran circus manager, Hermann Blumenfeld he had bought them from us shortly before the beginning of the war. Blumenfeld was a temperamental fellow, known as Hermann-Hermann, because he used to get so excited that he always repeated the end of a sentence once or twice. 'Jolly glad,' he assured me, 'jolly glad to give you your old elephants back; they're eating me out of house and home, house and home, anyway out at my place at Magdeburg at Magdeburg they're just standing about on the chain, on the chain. You can pay me when you like, you like. Send me the draft home, simple address, just Blumenfeld, Guhrau-Guhrau.
the circus Blumenfeld had twice elephants: befor the 1. world war and after. The first elephants were bought by Hagenbeck and sold back to Lorenz Hagenbeck when the circus E. Blumenfeld Wwe. was closed. We don't know the names of those elephants. The second elephants belonged to the circus Gebr. Blumenfeld jun., there were five animals. When this circus were closed in 1928 the elephant Rosa was sold to Circus Knie. We don't know about the other four elephants.
