August Scholz

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☨ August Scholz
Profession	menagerie director
Personal details
Born	? in Germany
Country	Germany

Locations
Title	owner -
Location	at Scholz Menagerie in Germany

Biography details

August Scholz , menagerie director in Germany

Born ? in Germany .

I got into my first major deal when I was just over 16, and it is interesting to see how chance, which plays a major part in life, came to my aid. You just have to keep your eyes open and try to use every situation appropriately, to make the best of it, as the English say. At that time, the menagerie owner August Scholz came to Hamburg with a young, five-foot-high elephant, which he lodged with us for one night in order to dispatch it the next day with other animals bought from us. First, Scholz and I led the elephant through the streets to the train station. However, this shipment was interrupted by a small interlude. On Lombardsbrücke the pachyderm became shy and ran away from us. Of course, there was a nice crowd. After chasing through the grounds for more than half an hour, the elephant was finally brought back in, bound by the legs and tied behind the wagon, whereupon he had the sense to be taken to the station. At the railway station, Scholz asked me to accompany him to Berlin at his expense. I was willing to do this and gave our coachman the task of bringing me a blanket at the station and telling my father that I had gone to Berlin as Scholzen's assistant. Next noon the shipment was completed, whereby the animals were transported with an extra locomotive through the middle of the city to another station. Nothing was more natural than that I would use the free afternoon to visit the Zoological Gardens.

Beasts and Men, by Carl Hagenbeck

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References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). director August Scholz in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=2965. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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