Krefeld. “For more than ten years I have had the opportunity to accompany the innovative development of the Krefeld Zoo as a member of the management team”
The future director of the Krefeld Zoo is a familiar face: Dr. Stefanie Markowski, who at the end of the year replaced the long-time incumbent Dr. Wolfgang Dreßen, has been employed as a zoo veterinarian and curator at Zoo Krefeld gGmbH for eleven years. The shareholders’ meeting unanimously elected her as the new managing director on Thursday, May 11th. “I would like to thank the shareholders for the trust they have placed in me, and I look forward to the new task with respect, but also with great anticipation,” explains Dr. Stefanie Markowski. “For more than ten years I have had the opportunity to accompany the innovative development of the Krefeld Zoo as a member of the management team and I have confidence in working with the committed colleagues in the team to continue to modernize the zoo and make it fit for the future.” For the first three months, the new zoo director will take up her post from October in a kind of “double leadership” together with Dr. Wolfgang Dreßen, who will retire on December 31, 2023.
Mayor Frank Meyer accompanied the application process
As a representative of the main shareholder, the city of Krefeld, Mayor Frank Meyer accompanied the application process. He is convinced that in the end the right candidate prevailed. “The attraction of the zoo far beyond Krefeld and its immense effect as a point of identification for the people in our city give this personality great importance,” emphasizes Frank Meyer. “Our zoo needs competence and continuity. dr Stefanie Markowski has already extensively contributed to the recent success story. I am convinced that it will drive modernization and further strengthen its role as an educational institution. The central project of the monkey park species protection center is also in good hands with her.”
We are pleased that she will continue to establish the Krefeld Zoo as a modern and innovative place
This view is also shared by the other shareholder of Zoo Krefeld gGmbh, the Zoofreunde, which is run by citizens and organized as an association. Its chairman Friedrich Berlemann explains: “We are delighted with the appointment of Dr. Stefanie Markowski as director of the Krefeld Zoo. She stands for the continuity of our zoo through her extensive experience in animal husbandry and care and the management of animal populations and as well as for the further development of educational programs, sustainability and species protection. In addition, Dr. Markowski to take the zoo team along with them in their ideas. We are pleased that she will continue to establish the Krefeld Zoo as a modern and innovative place and is therefore the right managing director for future challenges.”
In 2013 she received her doctorate from the University of Veterinary Medicine in Hanover
dr Stefanie Markowski was born in Gelsenkirchen in 1975 and lives with her family in Krefeld. After studying veterinary medicine in Gießen, she worked from 2001 as a veterinarian in various practices, including in Bochum and Essen. In 2004 she got her first engagement in a zoo, the “Zoom Erlebniswelt” in her hometown of Gelsenkirchen. After a traineeship, she worked there until 2012 in the veterinary team for the veterinary care of the entire animal population and in animal management for all mammals, birds and reptiles. She accompanied the conversion of the Ruhr Zoo into the “Zoom Erlebniswelt”, including the construction of two new enclosures for great apes. In 2013 she did her doctorate at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover on the health management of mammals in zoological gardens.
She also set accents in the scientific cooperation with other zoos in Germany and abroad, research institutions and nature conservation associations
As of 2012, Dr. Stefanie Markowski is employed as a veterinarian and curator at the Krefeld Zoo. She was responsible for the medical care of the entire animal population and was responsible for animal and breeding management of the large animals and the aviary. She was intensively involved in the planning and implementation of projects such as the renovation of the elephant enclosure, the construction of the rhino enclosure, the penguin enclosure and the antelope stable. She also set accents in the scientific cooperation with other zoos in Germany and abroad, research institutions and nature conservation associations. In addition, there is experience in personnel and budget planning as well as in education and public relations work. She has also taken on managerial positions as a substitute and gained experience in personnel management.
In coordination with the veterinary office, she drew up a surveillance plan for animal diseases
dr Stefanie Markowski is considered to be excellently networked both nationally and internationally. Among other things, she is a member of the Association of Zoo Veterinarians, the Association of European Zoo and Wildlife Doctors and the Veterinary Association for Animal Welfare. In 2016, she organized the annual workshop for zoo veterinarians in German-speaking countries in Krefeld, which was met with great response. Since 2012 dr. Stefanie Markowski set up a permanent veterinary practice in the Krefeld Zoo, with a treatment room and modern equipment for diagnostics and treatment. In coordination with the veterinary office, she drew up a surveillance plan for animal diseases. In the course of her curatorial work, she maintained cooperation with international breeding programs for highly endangered animal species and was committed to optimizing husbandry conditions, also in cooperation with nature conservation organizations.
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