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"The Doberman Pinscher: History and Development of the breed (1939)"

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Dont know if anyone has come across, already has or is interested in this but i came across the entire book online for free, had a little scan through some of it and its very interesting, its by Philipp Gruenig one of the early developers of the breed that worked with Otto Goeller. It has quite a few pics of very early Dobermann.

In my opinion this is the most official write up on the breed as its from Gruenig himself, if only Karl had wrote a book like this

Info library > The Doberman Pinscher: History and Development of the breed, by Philipp Gruenig.
 
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Will have to look at it.

This is the doberman book I bought back in the late '60's when I bought my first doberman.

The Complete Doberman Pinscher:Amazon:Books

Couldn't figure out how to read any of the book? Hint please!:)

I was struck by this article tho, particularly the comment at the end.
Info library > The end of tolerance
you mean you couldnt read the book i posted? if its not showing up you probably need some sort of flash update, if you can see it you litteraly click on the bottom corner of the page and it turns it

or if you mouse over the icons on the bottom left the first one says "table of contents" that brings up the chapters then you just slick on the one you want

she has had terrible luck with Dobermann clearly, and the article is good, problem being that anyone can buy 2 dogs and attempt breeding, we just have to stick to pointing people in the right direction regarding breeders and lines and hope that people do research properly when buying, in an ideal world there would be strict regulations on dog breeding and kennel clubs would not dish out papers so easily, i dont really know enough about breeding to really comment on how that could be achieved
 
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Ha, knew it would be something simple! It needs a huge arrow with the words, "TURN PAGE HERE" for peeps like me. I can also know it one day and not the next or ask me a question and two days later the synapses are through firing and. I have the answer.:)
 
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Ain't the Internet a wonderful thing. I'm sure that many people have already done this, but it's a first for me, so I'm kinda excited. On Dobequest, I traced Jack's pedigree back to the beginning (sires only, so far), and sure enough, it's littered with "v Thüringen" dogs, who are, of course, discussed prominently in this book.

I also came across Astor of Westphalia, who is pictured on p. 13. Astor was born in the U.S. in 1929 and is Jack's many times great-grandfather, so I imagine this photo was taken sometime in the 1930s.

I was also interested to see how sleek American Dobes had already become, especially compared with the much coarser examples seen in some of the earlier photos.
 

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Ain't the Internet a wonderful thing. I'm sure that many people have already done this, but it's a first for me, so I'm kinda excited. On Dobequest, I traced Jack's pedigree back to the beginning (sires only, so far), and sure enough, it's littered with "v Thüringen" dogs, who are, of course, discussed prominently in this book.

I also came across Astor of Westphalia, who is pictured on p. 13. Astor was born in the U.S. in 1929 and is Jack's many times great-grandfather, so I imagine this photo was taken sometime in the 1930s.

I was also interested to see how sleek American Dobes had already become, especially compared with the much coarser examples seen in some of the earlier photos.
I'm really interested in any of those photos, if you know where I could find them. I love seeing how the breed developed, and since the 1899 German standard described the breed as being between 18.8-23.6" I'd really like to see what kind of substance those early dogs had.
 
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thanks for posting this, i had almost forgot to come back and look at this thread.

i have never had the chance to read this book.

had always wanted to buy it.

i find doberman review to be an excellent source of information on our breed. i love to use it to backtrack pedigrees.
 
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