how was the raccoon introduced to germany
Raccoons were originally introduced to Germany from the United States as a supposedly clever idea. Their furs were in demand and expensive, explains Frank-Uwe Michler, a raccoon specialist in M ritz national park in the north-eastern German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.n the state of Brandenburg, which surrounds Berlin, hunters killed 41 raccoons in 1990. In the last hunting season, it was 5,712. A total of 30,000 were killed across Germany in the last year, more than three times the number killed six years ago.
Both the real-life trapper Daniel Boone and the fictional hero of the Leatherstocking Tales novels wore fur caps made from raccoon pelts, easily identifiable by their bushy black and white tails. The first raccoons were brought to Germany in around 1920 to be bred in captivity for their pelts.Their controlled introduction into the wild occurred on April 12, 1934, when Prussian hunting and game authorities released two pairs of raccoons near the Edersee, a reservoir near Kassel.oth the real-life trapper Daniel Boone and the fictional hero of the Leatherstocking Tales novels wore fur caps made from raccoon pelts, easily identifiable by their bushy black and white tails. The first raccoons were brought to Germany in around 1920 to be bred in captivity for their pelts.