Heinrich Gotthelf Koschke , circus director in Austria Born 1862 in Germany dead 1935 in Austria . 1862: Heinrich Gotthelf Koschke was born in Berlin 1862, and became later baker. 1882: Started to work for the horse trainer Anton Klieber, during his shows in Cottbus. 1885: H. Koschke married Pernitza, a dressage-star. 1888: Koschke started his own circus Henry, together with his wife Pernitza, and toured Austria and Hungary. 1901: Toured for the first time in Germany. 1910: A program says he showed elephants. 1914: Koschke sold his circus to Sarrasani and bought a candle factory. His two daughters, Henriette and Hortense were both very fine riders. 1914: Ida Welena Hortense Koschke married Willy Pantzer on the 8th March 1914. (divorced in 1937) They had one child Alfred Pantzer who became Freddie Harrison - acrobat and pianist. Fred only had one son, Rod Harrison. Later he bought the small castle Herminenhof in Wels (Oberösterreich), Austria. 1935: Heinrich Koschke died in Graz-Austria.
