Firma Reiche in United States

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Firma Reiche
Type	dealer
Last elephant left	1909
Closed down	1909
Address	55 Chatham street
Place	New York
Country	United States
Related persons
Owner	Charly Reiche (-1885) Henry (-1887) and Karl Reiche (-1885)

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History of updates	2023-11-21

Latest document update	2023-11-21 13:56:48
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Firma Reiche, located at 55 Chatham street, in New York, United States . The last elephant left in 1909. Firma Reiche closed down in 1909.

Comments / picturesFounded by Charly Reiche (-1885) in Grünenplan, Alfeld. Henry (-1887) and Karl Reich (known in US as Charles Reiche) emmigrated 1884 to New York from Germany and imported animals to Zoos and circuses. From about the 1860s, the prosperity of the Reiche brothers was undoubtedly due to the imports of elephants for circuses in America, mainly P. T. Barnum and Adam Forepaugh. (Hoage, Deiss, From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century, page 102, 103)

1860: Charles Reiche returned to Germany, and set up a business close to Hannover.

1866: they imported 3 elephants from Hamburg through Carl Hagenbeck, among them probably Bismarck and Princess.

Karl Reiche died 1885, Henry 1887.

The company closed in 1909, and the last animals were sold to Hermann Ruhe Sr., owner of Firma Ruhe in Alfeld.

References for records about Firma Reiche

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). Firma Reiche, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1383. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Hoage, Deiss, From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century, page 103

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