Hermann Ruhe

In Chapter 18 of Wild Animals/Free Delivery, Hermann shares the struggles of caring for zoo animals during wartime, evacuating animals at a moment’s notice during bombings, and the status of ...

In Chapter 17 of Wilde Tiere Frei Haus (wild Animals/Free Delivery), Ruhe shares the difficulties of raising orphan gorilla twins and challenges with starting a zoo in Germany right before ...

In Chapter 16 of Wilde Tiere Frei Haus (Wild Animals/Free Delivery), Ruhe shares tales of transporting sloths, manatees, and zebras, and the crazy events surrounding training circus animals like a ...

In Chapter 15 of Wilde Tiere Frei Haus, Ruhe shares of an ibex which had to be recaptured after jumping an 8-foot fence, and the shanigans it got up to ...

In Chapter 14 of Wild Animals, Free Delivery, Ruhe shares more stories from his family’s business, along with an extensive price list for animals they sold in 1930 ...

In Chapter 13 of Wilde Tiere Frei Haus, Ruhe talks about a how his team was able to catch an escaped zoo tiger, which had found refuge in a bathroom ...

In Chapter 12 of Wilde Tiere Frei Haus, Ruhe talks about a trip to Abyssinia where they narrowly escaped local turmoil and were left with only a young lion to ...

In this chapter, Hermann Ruhe shares how a failed animal sale inspired an employee to start a circus! ...

In this next chapter of Wile Tiere/Frei Haus, Ruhe talks about the challenges of acclimating exotic animals to the European climate, primarily primates ...

In this next chapter of Ruhe’s book, he shares family adventures in Africa, including the complicated logistics of acquiring a giraffe ...

Fortunately, my other collectors were fully compensated for the loss I suffered in East Africa. Karl Kreth and Albert Meems, Fritz Tegtmeyer, and Carl Darnedde Jr, the son of our old ...

One of the basic conditions for the planned expansion of the company was the use of the training halls located on the Weisse Erde (White Earth). Circuses and variety shows1 ...

My letters with reports of success were a comfort to my father, whose health began to deteriorate more and more. I read in my mother’s letters how worried she was ...

Hermann Ruhe writes of a humorous animal trade his family set up based on a dare if Hermann could eat two dozen oysters in one sitting ...

Hermann Ruhe recounts childhood stories of alligator attacks, canary trading, and circus dealings ...

On some Sundays, after dinner, my father used to get very excited as we would drive, with our coachman Vespermann, to Grünenplan to visit Uncle August Merkel. Merkel had taken ...

There was a more logical reason for why my seven year old self had such an interest in sea lions. A few months earlier, my father had ordered a large ...

Starting in September 2024, the Museum of Animal and Pet History (MOAPH) will be releasing a chapter a month on the translated autobiography Wilde Tiere Frei Haus (Wild Animals Free ...