In 1911, Alfred Laubmann joined the Zoological Museum at Munich to work on the skins collected by Gottfried Merzbacher, and also worked under Carl Hellmayr.
In 1911 he joined the Zoological Museum at Munich to work on the skins collected by Gottfried Merzbacher (1834-1926) from the Tian Shan region. He worked under Carl Hellmayr and was a colleague of Erwin Stresemann. 
