Düsseldorf -
He is a legend in the Duisburg Zoo: Reinhard Frese was from 1993 to 2006 director of the zoo at the Kaiser mountain - now he died unexpectedly at the age of 66 years in Berlin. "The cause of death is suspected heart failure," said Frese successor Achim Winkler. Frese is survived by his wife Ursula and his daughter, Janna. He is on 12 February in Berlin buried.
Reinhard Frese, who took over the Zooleitung by the equally legendary Dr. Wolfgang violence (the hunter of "Moby Dick" in the Rhine), coined in his years of service today's modern appearance the zoo. "His goal was to replace all the old-fashioned pen and buildings with new facilities designed and close to nature and the zoo for the 21st to trim century to modern Zootierhaltung, "said Winkler.
The absolute highlight of the directorship of Reinhard Frese was the foundation of the world's attention koala attitude in the Duisburg Zoo. "All the doubters in defiance daring the mid-90s, the step that koalas maintain permanently in Duisburg," commends him his successor.
