Fritz Oehme

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☨ Fritz Oehme

Fritz Oehme
Profession	circus elephant trainer
Personal details
Born	1898-09-26 in Germany

Dead	1971-11-08 in Switzerland

Residence
Country	Switzerland

Locations
Title	elephant trainer 1944-
Location	at Circus Knie in Switzerland

Title	elephant trainer-1944
Location	at Circus Sarrasani in Germany

Relevant literature

Biography details

Fritz Oehme , circus elephant trainer in Switzerland

Oehme was born * 1898-09-26 in Germany dead 1971-11-08 , in Switzerland .

1930: Fritz Oehme was a famous elephant trainer of the circus Sarrasani during the thirties and fourties.

1944: 11 elephants, 1 hippo and 1 school horse went to National Circus Gebr. Knie from the Sarrasani together with Fritz Oehme trainer. Names: The 11 elephant bought by Knie from Sarrasani were: Menta, Tony, Rani, Herta, Punchy, Claudia, Maundy, Contess, Mary, Tarka and Frieda.

Fritz Oehme is mentioned on 2 location pagesCircus Knie, Circus Sarrasani,

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). elephant trainer Fritz Oehme in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 11 July 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=227. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

https://bucklesw.blogspot.com/2007/01/fritz-oehme.html
Sarrasanis group of elephants presented under the big top in Curitiba, Brazil, by Fritz Oehme, not long after the death of Hans Stosch Sarrasani, 1934. http://www.circopedia.org/Circus_Sarrasani
Jumbo auf dem Drahtseil - Elefanten dressuren von gestern und heute by Gerhard Zapf

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