Leipzig Zoo in Germany

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Leipzig Zoo
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Photo © Jutta Kirchner
Local name Zoo Leipzig
Typezoo
Address Pfaffendorfer Strasse 29
Zip-code 04105
Place Leipzig
Country Germany
Website Website
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YouTube ChannelYouTube Channel
Instagramzoo.leipzig
Related persons
OwnerZoo Leipzig GmbH (Stadt Leipzig)
Directors 1955-1957: Heinrich Dathe
Dr. Jörg Junhold
Assistant Directors 1958-1961: Lothar Dittrich
Zoological department
Apprentice keeper 1984: Michael Tempelhof
Elephant department
Elephant managementProtected Contact, since 2023
Head keepers
of elephants
2017-2024: Thomas Günther
2012-2017: Robert Stehr
-2012: Michael Tempelhof
?-2012: Michael Tempelhof
2012-2017?: Robert Stehr
2017?-now Thomas Günther
Record history
History of updates2025-03-17:
Latest document update2025-03-17 13:35:02
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Description

Leipzig Zoo, located at Pfaffendorfer Strasse 29, in Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig Zoo elephants are managed in Protected Contact, since 2023.

Living elephants

At the Leipzig Zoo lives 9 elephants with records in this database: (detail list)
  1. ♂ Akito born 2022-09-25
  2. ♀ Astra born 1980-00-00
  3. ♀ Bao Ngoc born 2022-12-20
  4. ♂ Edgar born 2016-01-01
  5. ♀ Kewa born 1983-00-00
  6. ♀ Pantha born 2012-06-01
  7. ♀ Thuza born 2008-12-13
  8. ♂ Voi Nam born 2002-04-05
  9. ♀ Zaya born 2023-04-29

Casualties

1 casualties
  1. 2017-08-28: elephant keeper Robert Stehr attacked by Hoa. While the crew were taking the elephants outside, Stehr stumbled and fell, and Hoa kicked him with a leg. Robert Stehr Survived. Stehr could leave hospital the same day, but left his work as elephant keeper. Leipzig Zoo transferred elephants to Protected Contact

Comments / picturesDuring 1650, 1668, and 1692, elephants were exhibited on the annual Leipziger Messe, which may have been the first elephants in Germany, after Charlemagne\'s elephant.

2017: accident with head keeper Robert Stehr

2020: All Asian elephants in Berlin Zoo were relocated to Leipzig Zoo, and renovation of elephant facilities was initiated.

2022; Pantha and Thuza (full sisters out of Ankhor and Kewa) are both confirmed pregnant at Leipzig and due in late 2022/early 2023. Sire is Voi Nam (Mekong x Trinh).

2023: all elephants transferred to PC.






References for records about Leipzig Zoo

Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2026). Leipzig Zoo, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=168. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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