Carl Claus Hagenbeck (born 1 November 1941 in Hamburg) is a German veterinarian and former zoo director.
From 1962 to 1967 he studied veterinary medicine at the Hannover Veterinary School and received his doctorate in veterinary medicine. Hagenbeck is married and has two daughters. From 1977 to 1982 he was junior director of the Hagenbeck Zoo in Hamburg,[1] which he then directed from 1982 to 2004. Between 1982[2] and 1989 he directed the zoo together with his third cousin from the Lorenz Hagenbeck family, Caroline Hagenbeck (1959–2005),[3] and from 1989 onwards with her husband Joachim Weinlig-Hagenbeck (* 1956).
Carl Claus Hagenbeck was born as the son of Carl-Heinrich Hagenbeck (1911–1977); his grandfather was the Hamburg Zoo director Heinrich Hagenbeck (1875–1945), and his great-grandfather was the zoo founder Carl Hagenbeck.
In 1998, Carl Claus Hagenbeck founded the Hagenbeck Zoo Foundation together with Caroline Hagenbeck.[1] He handed over the position of zoo director to his son-in-law Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck (* 1967) in 2004.[4] From 2012[5] until the beginning of April 2015, he was once again managing director of the zoo together with Joachim Weinlig-Hagenbeck.[6] A falling out developed between the two.[4] Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck and Friederike Hagenbeck initially succeeded him, but in June 2015, Carl Claus Hagenbeck’s daughter Bettina[4] joined the management instead of Hering-Hagenbeck.
| 1962 | Abitur |
| 1962-1967 | Studium der Veterinärmedizin an der Tierärztlichen Hochschule Hannover mit Promotion zum Dr. med. vet. |
| 1970 | Prokurist und Tierarzt der Firma Carl Hagenbeck |
| 1971 | Einrichtung und Leitung des Delfinariums |
| 1972-1979 | Modernisierung der Infrastruktur des Tierparks |
| 1977-1982 | Juniorchef des Tierparks Hagenbeck in Hamburg-Stellingen |
| 1982-2004 | Chef des Tierparks Hagenbeck |
| 1997 | Hamburger Denkmalschutzamt erklärt die Gesamtanlage des Tierparks als schützenswert |
| 1998 | 150-jähriges Jubiläum des Tierparks |
| 1998 | Gründung der Stiftung Tierpark Hagenbeck (zus. mit Caroline Hagenbeck) |
| 2004 | Ablösung als Chef des Tierparks durch Joachim Weinlig-Hagenbeck und Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck |
| 2012 | Rückkehr in die Geschäftsführung nach Differenzen innerhalb der Eigentümerfamilie |
