How the German Wirehaired Pointer Put Performance Over Pedigree

An exploration of the breeders, concepts, and historic forces that turned the German Wirehaired Pointer right into a benchmark for performance-based breeding.

On this episode of Searching Canine Confidential, host and canine historian Craig Koshyk explores the outstanding historical past of the Deutsch-Drahthaar, identified in English because the German Wirehaired Pointer. Tracing the breed’s origins to turn-of-the-century Germany, Craig explains how a small group of forward-thinking breeders broke with conference by opening the studbook and prioritizing efficiency over pedigree purity. Towards the backdrop of nationalism, conflict, and strict canine breed politics, he follows the rise of the Drahthaar from a controversial experiment to Germany’s most dominant versatile gundog. Alongside the best way, Craig examines the philosophy of “type follows operate,” the breed’s survival by means of two world wars, its unfold to North America, and the enduring debate over names, techniques, and identification that also surrounds the breed at this time.

Podcast Episode Transcript

Hey all people. We’re again, and that is the final in our sequence on the wire-haired pointing breeds from Germany. We’ll be taking a look at another breeds after this episode, however on this episode we’re trying on the massive canine, the highest canine, the primary pointing breed in Germany, the primary sporting breed in Germany, and the primary pointing breed in numerous hunters’ hearts outdoors of Germany.

Yeah. In the present day we’re gonna be trying on the Deutsche Drahthaar, or the German Wirehaired Pointer. However earlier than we do, let’s do not forget that we’ve already seen the Griffon and the Pudelpointer. These three breeds contributed an important deal to the Deutsche Drahthaar. And yet one more: the German Shorthaired Pointer. Yeah, there was a shorthaired pointing breed bred into the Deutsche, and that’s what actually separates it from the opposite three wire-haired pointing breeds in Germany.

They selected to stay inside the wire-haired camp, the Drahthaar folks. Effectively, they determined so as to add that additional oomph, that additional ingredient, generally known as the German Shorthaired Pointer. And what they got here up with was a recipe that ended up dominating and conquering the German looking canine world.

Now, one final notice earlier than we get onto this episode. I simply heard from some very type German folks, listeners to this podcast, and so they indicated that I used to be really announcing some issues not appropriately. Even I, I are likely to pronounce German phrases with a French accent, surprisingly sufficient. I imply, English is my first language, however I additionally converse French at dwelling. So for some motive, once I attempt to pronounce a German phrase, I give it a bit little bit of a French inflection.

So to make clear, they indicated that, primary, that S-T-I-C-H sound will not be a, as I used to be saying. It’s not “kohar.” It is sort of a “kh” sound, nearly like, um, there’s a breed referred to as a Korthals Griffon. It’s that sound.

So should you actually need to sound like a German announcing it, you need to get that proper. I can’t do it completely, but it surely’s higher than what I used to be saying. So thanks to all my German-speaking buddies who, you realize, kind of pointed that out to me. I respect that. I all the time wanna do my greatest to pronounce these fabulous names of those fabulous breeds as appropriately as potential.

And the opposite one is the “th.” Now, um, within the episode I’ll, you realize, be announcing the Drahthaar right here and there in numerous methods, once more with my kind of French accent. However in actuality, the “th” actually kind of throws numerous English audio system off, as a result of we are saying “th” as within the, or this, or that. For the “th” sound, and there’s a few Ts in haar, however the Germans don’t say it like a “th.” They are saying it like a “t.”

The opposite one, and that is what I are likely to do once more with my French accent, is I sort of pronounce the R on the finish. I say “haar,” however most Germans don’t. They sort of depart that R alone. So once you hear them talking and once they speak about their breed, they may say “Drahthaar,” with possibly a bit little bit of an R on the finish in sure areas of Germany, however typically talking, your common German hunter is gonna say “Drahtha.”

So there you go. We’re gonna check out the German Wirehaired Pointer, the Drahthaar, and it’s high canine. So let’s get into this episode.

Effectively, thus far we’ve had a have a look at some fairly cool breeds. We began off with Korthals Griffons developed in Germany, after which lastly discovering their dwelling in France and spreading world wide. Then we appeared on the Pudelpointer and the Stichelhaar.

So right here’s the query for you. What occurs should you begin breeding all of these breeds collectively? Pudelpointers with Griffons, Griffons with Stichelhaars, and also you add in a bit bit of additional stuff in there? You add a secret ingredient referred to as the German Shorthaired Pointer, the Deutsche Kurzhaar.

Effectively, what do you get from that stew? From that French and German and Pudelpointy, Griffy, Stichelhaar mixture of elements? Effectively, you get essentially the most profitable wire-haired breed on the earth, the dominant breed in Germany at this time, and it’s referred to as the Deutsche Drahthaar. In English, we name it the German Wirehaired Pointer.

And people two names carry with them a bit bit of luggage and/or controversy, which I’ll attempt to clarify in a while. However for now, let’s get into the Drahthaar, the primary wire-haired pointing breed on the earth.

However let’s begin with an anecdote, lets? Only a private recollection of my very own, as a result of I’ve been round Drahthaars for a very long time, and I’ve seen them nearly in all places we’ve traveled. This story begins with a pal of mine who was born and raised on the opposite facet of the world, in New Zealand.

He moved to Canada a few years in the past to pursue his life’s ardour, which is falconry. He breeds, raises, trains, and hunts with peregrine falcons. He used to fly different kinds of birds of prey in New Zealand over Springer Spaniels and German Shorthaired Pointers. However when he moved to Manitoba to focus primarily on peregrines, he needed a sturdy pointing canine.

And yeah, there have been numerous breeds that he might have chosen from, however he needed one particularly to deal with the robust cowl and the cruel local weather of central Canada. So after weighing the professionals and cons of a number of breeds, he lastly selected the German Wirehaired Pointer, or the Drahthaar. He acquired two males, and he hunted over them for a number of years.

They had been nice canines. I hunted over each of them, and so they had been each implausible. Then someday he determined so as to add a feminine to his kennel, and I used to be there on the day that she arrived by airplane from Germany. Now, regardless of having spent over 14 hours in a crate with numerous stopovers from Germany to Toronto to Winnipeg, effectively, the minute that pup acquired out of her journey crate, she jumped into her new proprietor’s arms, she licked his cheek, after which she noticed a pond behind him by which was a household of geese swimming round.

Effectively, then she leapt out of his arms and bolted in the direction of that pond. As soon as she was there, she dove in and he or she gave chase to that household of geese. That pup was 4 months previous, and that younger pup finally grew as much as be a fully very good gun canine.

I’ve some images of her in my first ebook, Pointing Canines, Quantity One. You could possibly test it out. Her identify was Liesel, and he or she was nice. And to me, that canine will all the time symbolize the very essence of the German Wirehaired Pointer. A rough-and-tumble, intensely loyal, hardworking gun canine.

And the truth that a falconer from New Zealand, residing in Canada, might get a pup from a breeder in Germany after which have it begin looking the minute its toes hit the bottom, effectively, that’s testomony to the unimaginable achievements of a small group of people that had the braveness to comply with a revolutionary concept practically a century in the past in Germany.

Now, with a view to actually perceive that group of individuals and what that revolution they sparked actually was, effectively, we’re gonna have to fireside up our trusty time machine as soon as once more, and we’re gonna must set the dial to Germany round, I don’t know, let’s say 1900, 1905.

Once we arrive and we open the door, effectively, what we’re gonna discover is a gun canine world that’s popping out of an experimental interval. It’s popping out of the interval from, let’s say, concerning the 1860s to about 1900, when all of the totally different German breeds had been created after which developed after which standardized.

By the point we arrive in Germany, effectively, all of them have breed requirements. They’ve acquired breed golf equipment. There’s numerous organizations, roughly, overseeing the breeding of those breeds. They usually’ve additionally give you a complete testing program, and that’s as a result of all the German breeders at the moment, they agreed on a few core rules.

One, the canines ought to seem like what they’re alleged to seem like. If you happen to’re gonna name a canine a Wirehaired Pointer, effectively, it higher have a wirehaired coat. And a Pudelpointer ought to seem like a Pudelpointer. A Weimaraner ought to seem like a Weimaraner with its distinctive grey coat, proper?

Additionally they agreed on the truth that with a view to guarantee that all of those canines that seem like they need to seem like, all of these canines must also hunt like they’re alleged to hunt. And the one means to do this, effectively, is identical means as you management the best way they appear.

You study it with the seems. It’s your eyeballs. You check out the canine. You may use a measuring stick. You may measure to verify they’re the proper dimension. However you examine the coat, you examine the attention colour, you examine all of these issues that go into the general look of the canine, and also you say, proper, it’s an X, no matter breed.

However they had been additionally sticklers for the concept that a canine, it doesn’t matter what it seems like, irrespective of how handsome it’s or how near their breed-standard perfect, effectively, it additionally has to show itself within the area. It has to go a sequence of complete checks earlier than it’s allowed to breed.

And that means, we will have a predictable, reproducible pool of canines to select from, after which our breed can be on stable floor. Tremendous. It labored then. It nonetheless works to at the present time.

However there was additionally one different actually vital concept that everyone held to again in that day, and that was the concept of purity. Not solely simply in Germany, however world wide at the moment, as it’s at this time, the concept of purity actually reigned.

As soon as your breed was fastened, as soon as your studbook was closed, when you had an ordinary and a membership and all the remaining that goes right into a breed, you stated, proper, that’s it. No extra overseas blood in our breed. Solely inside our breed lets combine our canines. We are going to maintain our breed pure.

Effectively, not all people agreed with that concept. Keep in mind I discussed that there was a time period when all the rough-haired breeds had been bred collectively? Effectively, that’s as a result of they had been regarded as being in the identical household, so it wasn’t thought of crossbreeding.

Effectively, a few of these folks in that individual group, they thought they’d go one step additional. What should you bred Pudelpointers to Stichelhaars, and Stichelhaars to Griffons, and the outcomes of all these again to one another, and then you definitely added a Shorthaired Pointer, the GSP? What would you get as an finish end result?

Just a few folks had really tried that in prior years, however they had been shortly kicked out of any membership they had been a member of. They had been seen as absolute heretics. However that was simply the occasional particular person doing that. There was no group of individuals getting collectively and placing down a program of really placing that in place.

Till, in fact, there have been a number of folks from the Pudelpointer camp, lots of people from the Stichelhaar camp, and even some folks from the Griffon camp that acquired collectively and agreed that they’d take that one ultimate step.

They might break that one major rule of all canine breeding at the moment, and they’d really work inside an open studbook, a revolutionary and heretical concept. At the moment, folks freaked. They had been outcasts from all their numerous golf equipment. They had been outcasts from the German looking neighborhood in numerous methods as a result of folks thought it was a fully loopy concept.

No, you could maintain your canines “pure.” You can’t combine and match as you would like, as a result of then you definitely received’t have pure canines, and that may defeat the entire function of this entire group.

Effectively, that small group finally shaped a membership as a result of what they had been capturing for was a canine they’d finally identify Drahthaar, that means wire-haired pointer. And they also merely shaped a membership referred to as the Drahthaar Membership, and so they went about their merry means of breeding no matter they wished to no matter they wished, as a result of their foremost objective was to provide a canine that did the job.

In spite of everything, one of many concepts that was central to the whole German canine breeding group at the moment was this concept of “type follows operate.” In different phrases, the best way a canine seems relies on what the canine does. And since a canine does X, Y, Z, effectively, that’s why it seems prefer it seems.

It’s an important phrase in German, and I’m gonna strive it. I’m gonna say it in German. It’s a tricky one, so please, my German listeners, forgive me for this, however I’m gonna attempt to say it. It’s superior. It actually means “from efficiency to kind,” or “by efficiency to kind.” We’d say in English, “type follows operate.”

In different phrases, the general look of the canine is set by the efficiency of the canine and never the opposite means round. You don’t construct a canine in a means that you simply suppose will carry out after which hope it performs that means. They tried that. It didn’t work.

Within the early years in Germany, that’s precisely what they did. Just by choosing for canines that appeared like these canines they noticed in previous work, or imagined that their granddad hunted with, or imagined in some kind of previous King Arthur–kind time folks used to make use of these canines. Effectively, if we might solely get canines that seem like that, effectively, they’re gonna carry out like that.

So, no. Perform doesn’t comply with type. It’s the opposite means round. Kind is created, or dictated, by the operate of the canine.

And in order that’s what the Drahthaar folks stated. They stated, look, if we’re actually searching for efficiency in our canines, then we shouldn’t be caring a lot about their total look. In fact, we would like it to be a selected dimension, and that wire-haired coat is nice. We need to get a wire-haired coat, however let’s primarily deal with getting good-performing canines, and let’s not obsess over pedigrees.

Let’s not return and comb by means of each pedigree to verify each one in all these canines is “pure.” No, we’re going to make use of canines that work. We’re merely going to open the studbook.

We’re gonna inform each breeder—and so they actually had this as a motto of their membership—they stated, “Use what you would like, however be sure you take a look at and show the outcomes,” which is an excellent technique.

It’s the technique that numerous totally different sports activities use. It’s the concept behind NASCAR, or it’s the concept behind the Iditarod. It’s the concept behind numerous totally different sports activities in that we don’t care what items you utilize to make a greater mousetrap. We’re going to decide your mousetrap on whether or not or not it’s a higher mousetrap, interval, finish of story.

And they also merely carried on with that concept.

And with a view to get a good deeper studying on this specific level in Drahthaar historical past, I reached out to a pal of mine in Germany, and he’s an actual fan of the historical past of the breed. He’s a Drahthaar proprietor and a breeder, and he actually dug deep into all the previous articles and all the previous writings in all the previous books in Germany for me, and he gave me some fascinating insights.

I’m gonna learn to you among the stuff that he despatched to me. All proper, right here we go. His identify is Wilhelm Heinrich, and that is what he wrote to me.

He stated, quote:

“When the VDD—that’s the identify of the membership that was based again within the day, the Verein Deutsch-Drahthaar, which simply means the Drahthaar Membership—when the VDD was based, many of the members had been renegades from the Pudelpointer Membership that was based in 1897.

An important of them was a man named Alexander Löns. He was the VDD president from its founding in 1902 to 1934. He was clearly a formidable persona, and he was very influential in lots of points, notably within the collection of his comrades-in-arms for this trigger.

One other vital founding member was Mr. Bürklin. He was additionally a Pudelpointer renegade. In 1927, when trying again on the wild days of breeding on the flip of the century and on the battles that Drahthaar folks fought, he wrote within the Drahthaar Membership publication in 1927 the next quote:

‘I used to be nonetheless satisfied that for breeding Pudelpointers, I would wish one pointer and one poodle. I lastly succeeded in buying a splendid pair of poodles. Even the famend cynologist Dr. Stephanitz agreed, upon presenting him my poodle Arapo within the looking area, that one would hardly discover a higher poodle for breeding.

So Arapo was bred to some lovely and proficient purebred pointer bitches. The offspring had been, in fact, not half unhealthy, however not fairly phenomenal. In response to Oberländer and others, this crossing ought to have been superior to all the pieces else bred at the moment.

So was the conclusion that for a great versatile canine, the combination of poodle and pointer alone was not sufficient, not a pure combine, and that some kind of third blood, particularly that of the Deutsche Kurzhaar, could be helpful, if not important, for that function.

I first spoke out about this opinion within the sporting journal Hund und Sport. I obtained numerous approvals. Eminent breeders, akin to Birk, Busch, and Löns’ uncle, agreed. And from this concept, the VDD was quickly based.’”

Now, I’ll return to quoting Wilhelm Heinrich and what he despatched to me.

“Within the early years, Drahthaar breeders used primarily Stichelhaars and Pudelpointers of their packages. Griffons had been additionally used, however much less often. Quickly, crosses to German Shorthaired Pointers had been undertaken as effectively, however this led to some difficulties in breeding a correct wire-haired coat. However speedy progress was made in area potential.

In 1904, maybe reflecting the patriotism of the membership members, the VDD, the Wirehaired Membership, was renamed Verein Deutsch-Drahthaar, which implies German Wirehair Membership. In spite of everything, Germany had developed its personal long-haired pointer, the Deutsche Langhaar, and its personal short-haired pointer.

So the VDD’s mission was to provide Germany its personal nationwide wire-haired pointer. However at first, the membership grew very slowly. On the outbreak of the First World Warfare in 1914, for instance, there have been only some dozen members and solely a complete of 56 entries within the membership’s studbook.”

However after the conflict, the membership noticed phenomenal development. In 1921, the VDD handed the 1,000-member mark, and by 1926, these canines had turn out to be so widespread that they made up practically half of all canines within the German Versatile Canine Registry. In 1928, the breed was lastly acknowledged by the Delegate Fee, and by the center of the Thirties, it had nearly achieved the standing of Germany’s nationwide canine.

Within the tough years that adopted, the German Wirehaired Pointer, like all the different German breeds, suffered tremendously. After the conflict, the breed inventory was strongly diminished. For instance, my mom gave our canine away in late 1945 as a result of we didn’t have sufficient meals. We might barely feed my three little brothers.

Nevertheless, the primary post-war assembly of the VDD passed off in 1947. In 1949, Germany was divided, however the VDD nonetheless remained as one membership as a result of the borders had been open. It’s stated that breeding in the course of the first years after World Warfare II was fairly chaotic, and that they used nearly all the pieces that had a tail.

In truth, Weimaraners had been used, in addition to German Longhaired Pointers and German Shorthaired Pointers. Breeders after World Warfare II had been additionally confronted with a tough downside. They had been allowed to breed canines, however they weren’t allowed to have weapons. These laws solely remained in place for just a few years within the West, however for over a decade within the East.

So in an East German looking journal from 1956, it was famous that the japanese canines had been fairly good, however they weren’t used to the sound of gunfire.

The primary Hegewald checks after the conflict passed off in 1949. Eighty-three canines had been entered. In 1954, simply 5 years later, 200 had been nominated for the Hegewald within the subsequent take a look at. The final Hegewald take a look at with mixed western and japanese teams was in 1959. After that, East German hunters weren’t allowed to attend.

In 1961, the wall was constructed, and due to the Chilly Warfare, all contact was lower, and that wasn’t reestablished till 1989. In 1992, the japanese and western golf equipment had been reunited. Unquote.

Previous to the Second World Warfare, only a few Drahthaars had been exported from Germany, and really, only a few made their option to North America. However within the Nineteen Fifties, first rate numbers of them began making their option to the U.S. and to different European nations.

In 1959, there have been sufficient of them within the U.S. that the German Wirehaired Pointer Membership of America was shaped, and the breed was shortly acknowledged by the AKC. Via the Nineteen Sixties and seventies, the breed’s recognition grew steadily in North America, and in 1971, Group North America, a chapter of the German membership, was shaped within the U.S.

Members of that membership take a look at and breed their canines based on the laws set out by the VDD, the guardian membership in Germany. In 1974, an analogous group in Canada was shaped, and in 1984, they grew to become a totally affiliated chapter of the VDD in Germany.

In the present day, it’s clear that the objectives of that small group of forward-thinking, revolutionary-type folks, effectively, their objectives have been achieved. And their method to breeding, which was hotly contested within the early years, effectively, it’s been utterly validated by the presence and the dominance of the Drahthaar, or the German Wirehaired Pointer, on the gun canine scene at this time.

The Drahthaar is among the many most profitable pointing breeds on the planet. Few can rival its versatility, and none of them come near its recognition in Germany. And it retains gaining supporters world wide yearly.

Now, I ought to in all probability take a minute or so simply to elucidate why I take advantage of the phrases Wirehaired Pointer and Drahthaar all through this episode nearly interchangeably. I figured I might achieve this as a result of they’re used sort of interchangeably in numerous instances, and a few folks could get upset that I take advantage of them interchangeably, as a result of there are some individuals who insist on calling their canines German Wirehaired Pointers, and others that decision their canines Deutsche Drahthaar.

Once I was writing my first ebook, I had to determine what identify to make use of all through the chapter. I had to determine what identify I used to be going to make use of for the title of the chapter. On the finish of the day, I selected German Wirehaired Pointer as a result of my ebook is written in English, and I selected German Shorthaired Pointer, German Longhaired Pointer, et cetera, all through these different breeds.

Different breeds, just like the Bracke, I selected Bracke. However let me simply say that there was a little bit of debate in my very own head and amongst my colleagues and editors by way of what we had been gonna standardize on all through the ebook.

Even the American membership for the German Wirehaired Pointer, means again within the day once they first acquired some canines in within the fifties and had been first forming the membership, they’d to determine what to name their canines. At first, there have been individuals who advocated calling the canines Deutsche Drahthaar, and I imagine within the very earliest days of the membership, that was the identify they bandied about.

Finally, nevertheless, they selected German Wirehaired Pointer for a similar motive as they selected the German Shorthaired Pointer and the German Longhaired Pointer. And others—they only translated the identify to English.

However curiously, for the German Wirehaired Pointer Membership of America, have a detailed have a look at the emblem of that membership. Even to at the present time, should you have a look at the emblem, it’s a circle with “German Wirehaired Pointer.” If you happen to look within the heart of it, you see the phrase “Drahthaar.” In order that’s a nod to the unique identify of the breed.

And once more, it simply goes again to a wrestle that they’d. That they had to determine what to name it.

These days, we have now to grasp that there are two teams of people who find themselves actually kind of representing the breed in North America. One group calls their canines German Wirehaired Pointers. Similar to the AKC membership, numerous them are literally related to the AKC. They could run their canines in AKC trials. They could present them in AKC reveals. They may be members of varied native AKC golf equipment, and so they do their factor with their canines that they name German Wirehaired Pointers.

There may be one other group of individuals, nevertheless, that aren’t related to the AKC, however are related to the VDD, the unique German membership for the Deutsche Drahthaar in Germany. There may be an affiliated chapter of the particular German membership proper right here in North America. In truth, there are two. There’s one within the U.S. and there’s one in Canada.

And people people produce canines primarily based on the German system. They take a look at them, they breed them, they do all the pieces that the German membership requires of them. They usually even generally take them to Germany and get nice scores, even in comparison with German-bred canines in Germany.

So they’re tightly related to the VDD group, and people folks want to make use of the identify Deutsche Drahthaar as a result of they wanna guarantee that when folks discuss to them about their canines, they perceive that they’re a part of the German system.

If you happen to ask anyone about their German Wirehaired Pointer and so they appropriate you and say, “Oh, effectively, I’ve a Deutsche Drahthaar,” what they’re saying is they’re members, and possibly lively, within the VDD system. That their canines come out of the VDD system, that they could even be a breeder within the VDD system and/or take a look at their canines inside that system.

If, alternatively, you have a look at any individual’s canine and go, “Wow, what a pleasant German Wirehaired Pointer,” and so they thanks for the praise, effectively, they’re in all probability related to the AKC or the non-German facet of that breed.

Now, the sticky half in all of that’s when folks ask, are they the identical breed? And even worse, is one higher than the opposite?

I’m not gonna go there on this specific episode. If you happen to wanna take heed to a deeper dive on that whole query, effectively, take heed to the episode that Jennifer Wapenski and I did again in 2022. It’s episode 32.

We check out that query. We check out how will we go about defining what’s a German Wirehaired Pointer. What’s a Deutsche Drahthaar, and the way do the 2 evaluate? What are the variations between them, and why do sure folks use one identify and different folks use the opposite identify, and a little bit of the bones of rivalry between the 2.

We take a deep dive. We take a impartial viewpoint, though Jennifer is on the Deutsche Langhaar facet. She calls her canines Deutsche Langhaars. She doesn’t name them German Longhaired Pointers, and he or she explains her the explanation why in that episode. So test it out, 2022, episode 32 of the Searching Canine Confidential Podcast.

Effectively, I actually hope you get pleasure from that episode, all people. It was a ton of enjoyable placing collectively, and I’ve by no means regretted any time I’ve ever spent within the area with a Drahthaar, or a Pudelpointer, or a Griffon, or any of the wire-haired breeds that we’ve coated thus far.

And that additionally goes for the breeds that we’re gonna have a look at subsequent, as a result of from Germany, we’re gonna go east. We’re going to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. Within the Czech Republic, we’ll check out an important breed referred to as the Cesky Fousek, after which to Slovakia to take a look at the Slovakian Roughhaired Pointer. After which we’re going to Hungary. We’re gonna take a look at the Hungarian Wirehaired Pointer.

So keep tuned. And if you’d like extra data on all these breeds, take a look at my ebook. And should you hit the like and subscribe button, effectively, apparently it does one thing to the YouTube algorithms that helps us attain a wider viewers. So go forward, ring that bell, hit the like button, do no matter all the youngsters are doing these days to get these algorithms all jazzed up.

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