Aus der Frühgeschichte des Verbandes Deutscher Zoodirektoren (VDZ) e.V. – Aus den Archiven des Zoologischen Gartens Breslau/Wrocław

The early history of the VDZ is nearly unknown. Surprisingly many historical materials of great value were discovered while reorganizing the library and archives of Wrocław (Breslau) Zoo. One of these discoveries is the nearly full set of the minutes from the meetings of the directors of German zoos starting from the first meeting in 1887 up to the 41st meeting held in 1929. To fill in the gap of the knowlegde about the history of VDZ we give a list of the meetings with some citations of each minutes. The full and complete list of all the meetings from the years 1887 – 1929 is given, with the dates, place and list of the participants. All names, titles and numeration cited here are exactly as printed in the original minutes. Also the citations, randomly derived from the minutes are given here exactly as in the original minutes.