155 locations has kept elephants in Germany
There is presently 159 (33,126) living elephants in locations in Germany (in this database)
Region: Germany is in this database included in europe Other regions Location holdings: 155 locations has kept 661 elephants in Germany (Database tables with collection of elephants further down on the page )
Elephants in locations 159 (33,126) living 502 (101,369) dead Sex ratio and Management: Male 33 / 159 21% Female 126 / 159 79% Free contact 103 / 159 65% Protected contact 44 / 159 28% No contact 0 / 159 0% Unknown contact 9 / 159 6% wild 0 / 159 0%
The first elephant arriving in Germany was Charlemagnes elephant Abul-Abbas , arriving in Aachen in 802. The second elephant in Germany is refered to as The Cremona elephant arriving in 1229.
In 1995 Germany had elephants on more circuses than in Zoos. Since then many circuses lost their elephants.
During 1650, 1668 and 1692, elephants were exhibited on the annual Leipziger Messe, including a private elephant bought from William I of Württemberg in Germany had bought.
Recommended Citation Koehl, Dan, Facts about elephants in Germany . Elephant Encyclopedia, (2020) available online retrieved at https://www.elephant.se/country.php?name=Germany . (archived at the Wayback machine )Sources, among others
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Name Elephant collection Type Place District Province State Region
Aachen Zoo (Aachen Zoologischer Garten) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths zoo Aachen Adriana Folco-Althoff Kept totally 2 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Hanau(map) Main-Kinzig-Kreis Hesse Alexander Scholl Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 2 deaths circus Amedeo Folco Kept totally 7 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 3 deaths circus Hanau(map) Main-Kinzig-Kreis Hesse Andreas Quaiser Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Talheim Heilbronn Baden-Württemberg southwest Germany Armando Renz Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 0 deaths circus Artland Showtierfarm (Lutz Freiwald) Kept totally 1 elephants, 1 present (0,1) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Badbergen Osnabrück Lower Saxony Northern Germany Augsburg Zoo Kept totally 15 elephants, 4 present (0,4) 0 births 5 relocated 6 deaths zoo Augsburg(map) Berlin Circus Union Kept totally 17 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 14 relocated 3 deaths circus Berlin(map) Berlin Zoo Kept totally 73 elephants, 5 present (1,4) 8 births 12 relocated 56 deaths zoo Berlin(map) Braunschweig Zoo (Arche Noah) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths zoo Braunschweig Bremen Zoo (Bremer Tierpark) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths zoo Bremen Bremen-Oberneuland Brunkensen Kinderzoo Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths zoo Alfeld-Brunkensen C. Hagenbecks Handlungs-Menagerie Kept totally 8 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 8 relocated 0 deaths dealer Hamburg(map) Carl Hagenbeck Circus Kept totally 13 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 13 relocated 0 deaths circus Hamburg Carl Hagenbecks Ceylonkarawane Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Neue Pferdemarkt) Kept totally 26 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 25 relocated 1 deaths zoo Hamburg(map) Carl Hagenbecks Tierpark (Stellingen) Kept totally 154 elephants, 9 present (2,7) 22 births 126 relocated 19 deaths zoo Hamburg(map) Charlemagne, (Carolus Magnus) emperor of Holy Roman Empire Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths private Aachen Chemnitz Zoo Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 0 deaths zoo Chemnitz Saxony (Sachsen) Chiccoland Zoo (Wille-Kinderzoo) Kept totally 5 elephants, 3 present (1,2) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths zoo Dürrwangen-Haslach Bavaria Circus Adolf Althoff Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Aeros Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 5 relocated 1 deaths circus Circus Albert Schumann Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Frankfurt am Main Hessen Circus Alberti (Stefan Frank) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Circus Alfons Quaiser Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Apollo Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 1 deaths circus Beckum Circus Aramant Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus Berlin Circus Arena (Alois Köllner) Kept totally 5 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 1 deaths circus Ronnenberg Circus Atlas (Circus Frankello) Kept totally 8 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 6 relocated 2 deaths circus Aufhausen Circus Baldini (Zirkus Baldini ) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 2 deaths circus Circus Barelli Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Barlay (Olympia, Berolina) Kept totally 7 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 3 deaths circus Neustadt an der Orla(map) Circus Barum Kept totally 12 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 8 deaths circus Einbeck(map) Circus Belli (Harry Belli) Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 3 deaths circus Circus Berolina (Linneman) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Berolina (Spindler) Kept totally 11 elephants, 3 present (0,3) 0 births 6 relocated 2 deaths circus Schönefeld(map) Circus Blumenfeld Kept totally 7 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 4 deaths circus Magdeburg(map) Circus Brumbach Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 0 deaths circus Ingolstadt Circus Busch (Paul Busch) Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Busch-Nürnberg (Jakob Busch) Kept totally 8 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 4 deaths circus Nuremberg Circus Busch-Roland (Circus Busch) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Berlin Circus Carl Althoff Kept totally 35 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 24 relocated 11 deaths circus Circus Carl Busch Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus Dürrwangen Bavaria Circus Carl Busch Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 1 deaths circus Dürrwangen-Haslach Circus Carl Hagenbeck - Stellingen (Lorenz Hagenbeck) Kept totally 18 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 1 births 14 relocated 4 deaths circus Hamburg Circus Charivari Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Corty Althoff Kept totally 16 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 0 births 9 relocated 5 deaths circus Pirmasens(map) Circus Corty-Althoff Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 4 deaths circus Circus Crocofant Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus München Circus Dominik Althoff Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Freialdenhoven Nordrhein-Westfalen Circus Fischer (Circus Starligth) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Enkenbach-Alsenborn Circus Fliegenpilz Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 1 deaths circus Haldensleben Circus Franz Althoff Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 1 deaths circus Maintal-Dörnigheim Hesse Circus Giovanni Althoff Kept totally 15 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 11 relocated 4 deaths circus Osnabrück(map) Circus Harlekin (Karl-Heinz Köllner) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 1 deaths circus Goeritz Circus Henry (Georg Frank) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Henry (Heinrich Koschke) Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths circus Stuttgart Circus Heppenheimer (Zirkus Heppenheimer) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Hermann Althoff (Helene Althoff) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Holiday (Ronald Spindler) Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 0 deaths circus Circus Julian (Schuberth) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Fürstenfeldbruck Bavaria Circus Kendler Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 1 births 2 relocated 1 deaths circus Circus Kossmayer (Willy and Hans Kossmayer) Kept totally 5 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 1 deaths circus Strehlen Circus Krone Kept totally 48 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 17 relocated 31 deaths circus Munich Bavaria Circus Luna (Francordia, Stefan Frank) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 1 deaths circus Hammelburg Circus Mustang Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 3 deaths circus Circus Probst Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Staßfurt Circus Quaiser Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Wrist Circus Renz (Zirkus Renz, Circus Olympic) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 1 deaths circus Berlin Circus Renz International (Franz Renz) Kept totally 3 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus (map) Landkreis Grafschaft Bentheim Niedersachsen Nordwestdeutschland Circus Renz-Berlin (Bernhard Renz) Kept totally 5 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 2 deaths circus Berlin Circus Samel Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Berlin Circus Sarrasani Kept totally 23 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 15 relocated 8 deaths circus Dresden Circus Schollini (Afrikas Big Circus, Don Carlos, Circus Montecarlo) Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 5 relocated 1 deaths circus Circus Universal Renz (Alois and Daniel Renz) Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 3 deaths circus Friedberg Hessen Circus Voyage (Alois Spindler) Kept totally 6 elephants, 4 present (0,4) 0 births 1 relocated 1 deaths circus 58093 Circus Wilhelm Hagenbeck (Circus Willy Hagenbeck) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 2 deaths circus Hamburg Circus Williams Kept totally 15 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 15 relocated 0 deaths circus Cologne Circus Williams-Althoff Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 6 relocated 0 deaths circus Cologne Cologne Zoo (Köln Zoo) Kept totally 35 elephants, 13 present (5,8) 13 births 14 relocated 8 deaths zoo Köln(map) Cottbus Zoo Kept totally 3 elephants, 1 present (0,1) 0 births 1 relocated 1 deaths zoo Cottbus Dresden Zoo Kept totally 25 elephants, 4 present (1,3) 1 births 4 relocated 17 deaths zoo Dresden(map) Saxony Dressurschule Wagner Kept totally 5 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 5 relocated 0 deaths circus Duisburg Zoo Kept totally 14 elephants, 3 present (0,3) 0 births 4 relocated 7 deaths zoo Duisburg Dusseldorf Zoo (Zoologischen Garten Dusseldorf) Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 2 deaths zoo Dusseldorf Elefantenreservat Starkenberg Kept totally 3 elephants, 3 present (0,3) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths zoo Starkenberg(map) Thüringen Erfurt Zoo Kept totally 17 elephants, 5 present (1,4) 1 births 3 relocated 9 deaths zoo Erfurt(map) Firma Carl Hagenbeck Kept totally 118 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 1 births 104 relocated 14 deaths dealer Hamburg(map) Firma Ruhe Kept totally 160 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 148 relocated 12 deaths dealer Alfeld(map) Frankfurt Zoo Kept totally 15 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 5 relocated 10 deaths zoo Frankfurt am Main Frederick of Württemberg Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths private Württemberg(map) Garnier Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 2 deaths circus Berlin Gelsenkirchen Zoo Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths zoo Gelsenkirchen George Munro Kept totally 26 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 26 relocated 0 deaths dealer Bremen German Army (Deutsches Heer) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths camp Graues Kloster menagerie, Berlin Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths private Berlin(map) Grömitz Zoo (Zoo Arche Noah) Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 0 deaths zoo Grömitz Halle Zoo Kept totally 23 elephants, 5 present (1,4) 5 births 9 relocated 9 deaths zoo Halle Hamburg Natural History Museum Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths museum Hamburg(map) Hamburg Zoo (Zoologischer Garten Hamburg) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths zoo Hamburg(map) Hannover Zoo Kept totally 88 elephants, 6 present (0,6) 35 births 62 relocated 20 deaths zoo Hannover(map) Hans Schomburgk Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths dealer Berlin Heidelberg Zoo Kept totally 12 elephants, 3 present (3,0) 0 births 5 relocated 4 deaths zoo Heidelberg(map) Hodenhagen Serengeti-Park Kept totally 19 elephants, 7 present (2,5) 3 births 11 relocated 1 deaths zoo Hodenhagen(map) Jaderberg Zoo (Tier- und Freizeitpark Jaderberg) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths zoo Jaderberg Johann Schmidt Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths dealer Bavaria Johannes A. Petersen (elephant trainer) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 1 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Josef Holzmüller Kept totally 5 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 1 deaths circus Speyer Julius Köllner Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths circus Julius Mohr Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths dealer Ulm Karl Antoine Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths private Kreis Soest Karlsruhe Zoo Kept totally 14 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 0 births 2 relocated 10 deaths zoo Karlsruhe Krefeld Zoo Kept totally 9 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 1 births 4 relocated 3 deaths zoo Krefeld(map) Kronberg Zoo Kept totally 14 elephants, 4 present (1,3) 2 births 1 relocated 9 deaths zoo Kronberg(map) Land der Reptilien (Rene Renz) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Friedberg Hessen Lars Hölscher Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 2 deaths circus Leipzig Zoo Kept totally 64 elephants, 10 present (3,7) 9 births 25 relocated 29 deaths zoo Leipzig(map) Logabirum Zoo (Onkel-Heini) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths zoo Leer Magdeburg Zoo Kept totally 13 elephants, 5 present (4,1) 0 births 3 relocated 5 deaths zoo Magdeburg(map) Memleben Zoo (Erlebnistierpark Memleben) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 1 deaths zoo Memleben, Sachsen-Anhalt Menagerie Gottlieb Kreutzberg Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths circus Menagerie Liphard Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths private Munich Zoo Kept totally 45 elephants, 5 present (2,3) 14 births 14 relocated 26 deaths zoo Munich(map) Munster Zoo (Allwetterzoo Munster) Kept totally 25 elephants, 5 present (1,4) 2 births 13 relocated 7 deaths zoo Münster Naturmuseum Senckenberg Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths museum Frankfurt am Main(map) Darmstadt Hesse Neunkirchen Zoo Kept totally 8 elephants, 3 present (0,3) 0 births 0 relocated 5 deaths zoo Neunkirchen Neuwied Zoo Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths zoo Neuwied Nuremberg Zoo Kept totally 21 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 10 relocated 11 deaths zoo Nürnberg(map) Bayern Oskar Fischer (Oskars Elefanten-revue) Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 0 deaths circus Osnabruck Zoo Kept totally 21 elephants, 5 present (3,2) 2 births 13 relocated 3 deaths zoo Osnabrück(map) Otto Fockelmann Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths dealer Hamburg Platschow Elefantenhof (Sonni Frankello) Kept totally 19 elephants, 11 present (0,11) 0 births 3 relocated 5 deaths private Platschow Raak (Zoo Neuwied) Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths dealer Neuwied Rostock Zoo Kept totally 17 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 6 relocated 11 deaths zoo Rostock Royal menageri of Stuttgart Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths private Stuttgart(map) Bad Cannstatt Royal menagerie of Hesse Kept totally 0 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 0 deaths private Rudi Enders Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths circus Ruhr Zoo, Gelsenkirchen Kept totally 13 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 1 births 10 relocated 3 deaths zoo Gelsenkirchen Saarbrücken Zoo Kept totally 3 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 1 deaths zoo Saarbrücken Saarland Safariland Groß-Gerau Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 2 relocated 0 deaths zoo Frankfurt Schloss Etelsen Tierpark Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths zoo Langwedel, Verden, Niedersachsen Straubing Zoo (Tiergarten Straubing) Kept totally 2 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 0 relocated 2 deaths zoo Straubing Stukenbrock Safaripark Kept totally 13 elephants, 4 present (0,4) 0 births 3 relocated 6 deaths zoo Stukenbrock Stuttgart Wilhelma Zoo Kept totally 10 elephants, 2 present (0,2) 0 births 4 relocated 4 deaths zoo Stuttgart - Bad Cannstatt(map) Tierpark Berlin Kept totally 42 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 19 births 30 relocated 12 deaths zoo Berlin(map) Lichtenberg Tierpark Ströhen Kept totally 8 elephants, 3 present (0,3) 0 births 3 relocated 2 deaths zoo Ströhen Tuddern safari park (Löwensafari Tüddern) Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 4 relocated 0 deaths zoo Heinsberg Walter Sensen Zoo-Agentur Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 6 relocated 0 deaths dealer Hohenstadt Waltersdorf Zoo (Tier-Erlebnispark Waltersdorf) Kept totally 6 elephants, 5 present (0,5) 0 births 0 relocated 1 deaths zoo Schönefeld(map) Werner Bode (Tierpark Gronau) Kept totally 6 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 6 relocated 0 deaths dealer Gronau William I of Württemberg Kept totally 1 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 1 relocated 0 deaths private Wingst Baby Zoo Kept totally 9 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 9 relocated 0 deaths zoo Wingst(map) Wuppertal Zoo Kept totally 30 elephants, 8 present (2,6) 15 births 15 relocated 7 deaths zoo Wuppertal Zirkus May (Jonny May-Frank) Kept totally 4 elephants, 0 present (0,0) 0 births 3 relocated 1 deaths circus Hannover(map)