Rolf Amelung

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☨ Rolf Amelung

Rolf Amelung with Asian female elephant Jenny
Profession	zoo elephant keeper
Personal details
Born	1951 in Germany

Dead	2020 in Germany

Residence
Country	Germany

Locations
Title	elephant head-keeper -1992
Location	at Hannover Zoo in Germany

Biography details

Rolf Amelung , zoo elephant keeper in Germany

Amelung was born * 1951 in Germany dead 2020 , in Germany .

Affiliation with 1 elephants

1: Siporex (attacked)

Casualties

1 casualties

1988-06: elephant keeper Rolf Amelung attacked by Siporex. badly during training performance. Rolf Amelung Survived. Disabled pensioner.

Previous head elephant keeper Rolf Amelung training the elephants in the old out enclosure in December 1981. Photo: Wayne A. Jackson, Canada

In June 1988 the bull Siporex, born in Denmark, attacked head elephant keeper Rolf Amelung during training performance, and had to be kept off-hand since then. Later Siporex Feet got worse, and he was finally euthanized.

Rolf Amelung is mentioned on 1 other person pagesDan Koehl,

Rolf Amelung is mentioned on 1 location pagesHannover Zoo,

Rolf Amelung is mentioned on 2 elephant record pagesKibo, Siporex,

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2025). elephant keeper Rolf Amelung in Germany. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 17 July 2025 at https://www.elephant.se/person.php?id=892. (archived at the Wayback machine)

Sources used for this article is among others:

Roland Wolf
Dan Koehl

Selected publications

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