Claim: In 1911, Alfred Laubmann joined the Zoological Museum at Munich to work on the skins collected by Gottfried Merzbacher, and also worked under Carl Hellmayr.
Evidence: In 1911 he joined the Zoological Museum at Munich to work on the skins collected by Gottfried Merzbacher (1834-1926) from the Tian Shan region. He worked under Carl Hellmayr and was a colleague of Erwin Stresemann.