Fritz Schulz - Revision history

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 ===Circus Debut===
-[[File:Sarrasani_in_Eindhoven_1930.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Circus Sarrasani in 1930]]In 1929, Fritz Schulz visited the giant [[Circus Sarrasani]] in Nuremberg, and caught the circus bug. He decided to take a job as a groom, and became one of the many employees who tended daily to Sarrasani’s stable of 250 horses. As legend has it, Fritz first came into contact with wild cats when he helped re-capture a tiger that had escaped from the circus’s menagerie. The original trainer was fired, and replaced by the tiger trainer Gustav Ohrt, who needed a cage boy able to cut the raw meat for his cats’ daily meals. Fritz took the job on the condition that he could also work with Ohrt as a cage assistant during his training sessions. Thus Fritz Schulz began his apprenticeship as a cat trainer.
+[[File:Sarrasani_in_Eindhoven_1930.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Circus Sarrasani in 1930]]In 1929, Fritz Schulz visited the giant [[Circus Sarrasani]] in Nuremberg, and caught the circus bug. He decided to take a job as a groom, and became one of the many employees who tended daily to Sarrasani’s stable of 250 horses. As legend has it, Fritz first came into contact with wild cats when he helped re-capture a tiger that had escaped from the circus’s menagerie. The original trainer was fired, and replaced by the tiger trainer [[Gustav Ohrt]], who needed a cage boy able to cut the raw meat for his cats’ daily meals. Fritz took the job on the condition that he could also work with Ohrt as a cage assistant during his training sessions. Thus Fritz Schulz began his apprenticeship as a cat trainer.
-In 1932, Fritz accepted a similar job with Sarrasani’s main competitor, the three-ring [[Circus Krone]]&mdash;but there, he had to prepare 2,000 pounds of meat daily for the thirty tigers of Fernand Montbaron and [[Alfred Bendix]], and [[Togare]]’s eight lions. Bendix and Togare were master trainers, but Fritz had too little spare time left to learn efficiently from them, and he decided to return to Sarrasani.
+In 1932, Fritz accepted a similar job with Sarrasani’s main competitor, the three-ring [[Circus Krone]]&mdash;but there, he had to prepare 2,000 pounds of meat daily for the thirty tigers of [[Fernand Montbaron]] and [[Alfred Bendix]], and [[Togare]]’s eight lions. Bendix and Togare were master trainers, but Fritz had too little spare time left to learn efficiently from them, and he decided to return to Sarrasani.
 Circus Sarrasani had been severely hurt by the economic depression&mdash;which was particularly disastrous in Germany&mdash;and it had had to lay off some of its star animal trainers. This situation was a godsend for the young Fritz Schulz, who was given the opportunity to take over a group of tigers that had been previously presented by [[Hermann Haupt]]. After a few animated rehearsals under the expert guidance of [[Franz Kraml]] (during which he learned to know his charges a little too intimately at times), Fritz Schulz made his professional debut as a full-fledged cat trainer in 1933 at Circus Sarrasani, in the Saxon city of Chemnitz.

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 ==Suggested Reading==
-* Bob Cunningham (Compiler), '''The Captain' : the life and times of the late Captain Fritz Schultz : 1910-2010'' (Woorim, Qld.: Mahout Publication, 2010)
+* Bob Cunningham (Compiler), ''"The Captain": The life and times of the late Captain Fritz Schultz : 1910-2010'' (Woorim, Qld.: Mahout Publication, 2010)
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	This association ended in 1980, after which Fritz returned to work for the Ashtons in various capacities, helping with animals, while his daughter worked in the administration. The indefatigable Fritz Schulz finally retired in 1992, and settled in Ormeau, Queensland, where he died on February 1, 2010, in his one-hundredth year.		This association ended in 1980, after which Fritz returned to work for the Ashtons in various capacities, helping with animals, while his daughter worked in the administration. The indefatigable Fritz Schulz finally retired in 1992, and settled in Ormeau, Queensland, where he died on February 1, 2010, in his one-hundredth year.
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		+	==Suggested Reading==
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		+	* Bob Cunningham (Compiler), '''The Captain' : the life and times of the late Captain Fritz Schultz : 1910-2010'' (Woorim, Qld.: Mahout Publication, 2010)

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 ===Circus Debut===
-[[File:Sarrasani_in_Eindhoven_1930.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Circus Sarrasani in 1930]]In 1929, Fritz Schulz visited the giant [[Circus Sarrasani]] in Nuremberg, and caught the circus bug. He decided to take a job as a groom, and became one of the many employees who tended daily to Sarrasani’s stable of 250 horses. As legend has it, Fritz first came into contact with wild cats when he helped re-capture a tiger that had escaped from the circus’s menagerie. The original trainer was fired, and replaced by the tiger trainer Gustav Ohrt, who needed a cage boy able to cut the raw meat for his cats’ daily meals. Fritz took the job on the condition that he could also work with Ohrt as a cage assistant during his training sessions. Thus Fritz Schulz began his apprenticeship as a cat trainer.
+[[File:Sarrasani_in_Eindhoven_1930.jpg|thumb|right|400px|Circus Sarrasani in 1930]]In 1929, Fritz Schulz visited the giant [[Circus Sarrasani]] in Nuremberg, and caught the circus bug. He decided to take a job as a groom, and became one of the many employees who tended daily to Sarrasani’s stable of 250 horses. As legend has it, Fritz first came into contact with wild cats when he helped re-capture a tiger that had escaped from the circus’s menagerie. The original trainer was fired, and replaced by the tiger trainer Gustav Ohrt, who needed a cage boy able to cut the raw meat for his cats’ daily meals. Fritz took the job on the condition that he could also work with Ohrt as a cage assistant during his training sessions. Thus Fritz Schulz began his apprenticeship as a cat trainer.
 In 1932, Fritz accepted a similar job with Sarrasani’s main competitor, the three-ring [[Circus Krone]]&mdash;but there, he had to prepare 2,000 pounds of meat daily for the thirty tigers of Fernand Montbaron and [[Alfred Bendix]], and [[Togare]]’s eight lions. Bendix and Togare were master trainers, but Fritz had too little spare time left to learn efficiently from them, and he decided to return to Sarrasani.

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 Then, in need of cash, and not eager to remain in Nazi-controlled Germany, Sarrasani embarked in 1934 on one of his lucrative South-American tours, with Schulz in tow. During his stay in South America, Fritz eventually increased the number of tigers he presented to twelve. Sadly, however, [[Hans Stosch-Sarrasani]]&mdash;known as "The Maharajah," and one of the greatest circus directors of all times&mdash;passed away in September of the same year, while the circus was performing in Buenos-Aires.
-Under the new management of [[Hans Stosch Jr|Hans Stosch, Jr.]], who, unlike his father, was a member of the NSDAP (the Nazi party), Circus Sarrasani, its coffers flush with good foreign currency, returned to Europe in 1935&mdash;in time for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Schulz was sent to work with Sarrasani’s tigers at [[Circus Orlando]], in Norway.
+Under the new management of [[Hans Stosch Jr|Hans Stosch, Jr.]], who, unlike his father, was a member of the NSDAP (the Nazi party), Circus Sarrasani, its coffers flush with good foreign currency and having secured some support from Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, returned to Europe in 1935&mdash;in time for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. Schulz was sent to work with Sarrasani’s tigers at [[Circus Orlando]], in Norway.
 ===Trainer For Alfred Court===

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