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 (an Austrian ornithologist).
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. Carl Eduard Hellmayr (29 January 1878 in Vienna, Austria – 24 February 1944 in Orselina, Switzerland) was an Austrian ornithologist.