10/10/2022
Dobermann is a breed of short-haired service dogs, bred in the city of Apolda (Thuringia, Germany) at the end of the 19th century by Carl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, named after its creator.
Dobermans were created as a purposefully formed breed and were shaped by careful selection. The beginning of this work was laid by Karl Doberman, and after his death, work on the breed was continued by his followers.
Karl Dobermann himself was a tax collector and a German police officer, and the breed he created was originally formed as a dog for the police service. In addition to working on the formation of his own breed, Doberman was also the owner of a dog shelter, in classes with which he honed his skills in training dogs and formed a system for their training, which he later used to train police dogs.
Work on the Doberman breed was started by him in 1870. As the ancestors of the breed, German Pinschers were chosen, which the creator of the breed took to work for their courageous and rather aggressive character. Subsequently, the blood of Rottweilers, Belgian and Thuringian Shepherd Dogs, as well as Weimar and other hounds were added to them.
For the first time, as an independent breed, the dogs of Karl Dobermann were presented at an exhibition in 1897. A year later, this breed received its first official recognition.
The original name of the breed - the Thuringian Pinscher - after the death of Dobermann in 1894 was replaced by the Dobermann Pinscher, under this name they were presented at the exhibition. During the next revision of the standard in 1949, the word "pinscher" was removed from the name of the breed, and it began to be called simply "Doberman".
The first stud book of dogs of this breed was compiled at about the same time when the dogs were first presented at the exhibition, but later it turned out to be lost. Its compiler was Otto Koller, who worked on the breed together with Karl Dobermann and continued his work after the death of the creator of the breed.
In the first decade of the twentieth century, work to improve the breed continued. Then, to lighten the backbone, the blood of Greyhounds was added to these dogs, and the blood of a number of hounds was added to them to improve their senses.
In Stanley Koren's book The Intelligence of Dogs, the Doberman is included in the group of breeds with the best training abilities.
This breed was officially recognized by the German Kennel Club in 1900. The next country to recognize this breed was the United States of America, where it was recognized by the American Kennel Club in 1908. Shortly thereafter, she was recognized by the Continental Kennel Club.
The International Cynological Federation FCI recognized the Doberman breed only in the middle of the twentieth century, in 1955.
