# Münster Zoo

The Allwetterzoo Münster is a Zoo in Münster in Westfalen, Germany.
The Zoo origins in the 1875 founded, and 1973 closed Zoologische Garten zu Münster, replaced by the 1974 founded Allwetterzoo Münster, which was built in a tree-rich area close to the lake Aasee.

## Animal numbers

This table shows the development of animal numbers in the Zoo until 2015
| Datum | Total | Total | Mammals | Mammals | Birds | Birds | Reptiles | Reptiles | Amphibia | Amphibia | Fish | Fish | Invertebrates | Invertebrates |
| Datum | Species | | Species | | Species | | Species | | Species | | Species | | Species | |
| 1914 | 218 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 March 1930 | 210 | 618 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 March 1934 | 293 | 860 | 90 | 226 | 197 | 625 | 6 | 9 | | | | | | |
| 31 December 1950 | 162 | 474 | 45 | 137 | 137 | 283 | 9 | 44 | 1 | 8 | | | | |
| Summer 1956 | 330 | 920 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 December 1962 | 341 | 1164 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 December 1965 | 337 | 1202 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Summer 1972 | 380 | 1700 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| April 1975 | 408 | 1355 | 83 | 396 | 169 | 489 | 60 | 143 | 2 | 2 | 86 | 277 | 8 | 48 |
| 31 December 1979 | 423 | 1970 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 December 1984 | 391 | 2030 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 December 1989 | 352 | 2242 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 December 1994 | 338 | 2220 | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 31 December 1999 | 319 | 3401 | 63 | 584 | 105 | 586 | 33 | 192 | 11 | 221 | 75 | 1165 | 32 | 653 |
| 31 December 2005 | 368 | 3518 | 73 | 650 | 98 | 558 | 52 | 230 | 10 | 137 | 100 | 1516 | 35 | 427 |
| 31 December 2008 | 302 | 3088 | 64 | 580 | 78 | 517 | 29 | 148 | 7 | 43 | 78 | 1339 | 46 | 461 |
| 31 December 2012 | 295 | 3020 | 63 | 557 | 61 | 484 | 24 | 75 | 7 | 48 | 84 | 1194 | 56 | 662 |
| 31 December 2013 | 320 | 3054 | 60 | 617 | 59 | 477 | 24 | 87 | 6 | 39 | 93 | 1050 | 78 | 784 |
| 31 December 2014 | 345 | 3492 | 72 | 585 | 65 | 486 | 33 | 101 | 7 | 50 | 97 | 1299 | 86 | 910 |
| 31 December 2015 | 298 | 3447 | 65 | 431 | 56 | 442 | 21 | 101 | 6 | 78 | 75 | 1333 | 75 | 1062 |

## Management

Until the end of the 1950s was the chairman of the board the official director, but since 1960 the title is Zoo director. Since 1985 is managed by Westfälischer Zoologischer Garten GmbH .
| Chairman of the board | Chairman of the board | Zoo Directors |
| 1871–1876 Hermann Landois 1876–1884 Franz v.Olfers 1884–1894 Vormann 1894–1905 Hermann Landois 1906–1907 B. Wulff 1907–1909 Paul Maerker 1909–1910 Wohmann 1910–1922 Ferdinand Verfürth 1924–1928 Hermann Reichling 1928–1933 Rincklage 1933–1937 Karl Humborg 1937–1945 Franz Falger | 1945–1948 Hermann Reichling 1948–1952 Theodor Geringhoff 1952–1959 Julius Rohr 1959–1974 Matthias Lückertz 1974–1979 Heinrich Stadtbäumer 1979–1982 Werner Schulze Buschhoff 1982–1997 Rudolf Wilbrand 1997–2001 Ralph Ziegler 2001–2008 Katharina Krüger since 2008 Helge Peters | 1875–1905 Hermann Landois 1908–1925 Heinrich Goffart 1925–1933 Richard Neuhaus 1933 Abel 1934 Goffart 1934–1936 M. Hans Bungartz 1936–1945 Heinz Randow 1945–1948 Hermann Reichling 1949–1957 Ludwig Zukowsky 1957–1960 Heinemann 1960–1980 Helmut Reichling 1980–1994 Götz Ruempler 1994–2015: H. Jörg Adler since 2016: Thomas Wilms |

## Staff numbers

During 2012 totally 85 persons (inclusive the management) was working in the zoo. From those most (46) worked as Zookeepers, 4 were busy in an education programme, eleven involved in commercial sale section, or in the technical section. Six gardners were tending the plants and six person worked in the management.

## Visitor numbers

The numbers of visitors are sorted in different years
| Year | Visitors |
| 1921/22 | 129.102 |
| 1922/23 | 127.739 |
| 1924/25 | 137.078 |
| 1928/29 | 178.711 |
| 1932/33 | 145.405 |
| 1936/37 | 178.185 |
| 1950 | 199.680 |
| 1955 | 327.707 |
| 1962 | 470.000 |
| 1964 | >500.000 |
| 1974 | 1.242.431 |
| 1979 | 767.129 |
| Year | Visitors |
| 1984 | 825.096 |
| 1989 | 845.997 |
| 1994 | 718.127 |
| 1999 | 830.903 |
| 2003 | 908.447 |
| 2004 | 895.200 |
| 2005 | 977.324 |
| 2006 | 1.031:st337 |
| 2007 | 1.018.754 |
| 2008 | 950.760 |
| 2009 | 991.990 |
| 2010 | 871.427 |
| Year | Visitors |
| 2011 | 935.918 |
| 2012 | 938.360 |
| 2013 | 976.032 |
| 2014 | 947.730 (VDZ-Schlüssel) |
| | 556.305 (gezählt) |
| 2015 | 915.000 (VDZ-Schlüssel) |
| | 618.000 (gezählt) |