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Fredy Knie Jr.

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Fredy Knie Jr.
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Personal details
Country	Switzerland

Locations
Title	owner 1992-
Location	at Circus Knie in Switzerland

Biography details

Fredy Knie Jr., circus director in Switzerland

Born 1946-09-30 , son of director Fredy Knie Sr. .

Fredy Knie junior (born September 30 , 1946) is a Swiss circus director and horse trainer. He is son of Fredy Knie senior (1920–2003) and Pierrette Knie-Dubois (1921–2013).

At the age of four, Fredy junior rode in Antwerp for the first time in front of an audience, as a five-year-old artist he experienced his first Swiss tour in 1951. In the circus he learned juggling and acrobatics from the artists present, from his father Fredy senior the horse dressage. From his father he later took over the management of the world-famous knieschen horse dressage and appeared for decades in the Circus Knie and also abroad.

In 1972, he married Mary-José Galland, who did not grow up in a circus. On January 19, 1973, their daughter Géraldine Katharina Knie, the representative of the seventh generation Knie, was born.

1992: Knie has been running the Circus Knie with his cousin Franco Knie senior since 1992 and was the artistic director of the company, until he handed over this task to his daughter Géraldine Katharina Knie.

Family

Total: 1 children

Géraldine Knie. Born: 1973-01-19.

Siblings

Siblings through the father Fredy Knie Sr. (1920-05-29 -- 2003-10-11):

Rolf Knie Born 1949-08-16

Fredy Knie Jr. s ancestral Ahnentafel:
P	I	II	III
Fredy Knie Jr. Born: 1946-09-30	Father: Friedrich Knie Born: 1920-05-29	Paternal Grandfather: Friedrich Knie Born: 1844	Paternal Great-grandfather: Ludwig Knie
		Paternal Grandfather: Friedrich Knie Born: 1844	Paternal Great-grandmother: Marie Heim
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Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director Fredy Knie Jr. in Switzerland. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 16 February 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=1268. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredy_Knie_junior

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