Hege Haus & Pottmes Bloodlines
Our foundation female, Karpaten Irbis Wednesday, is a Hege Haus and Pottmes blood breeding. It is only fitting that we devote a special section to reference these two historical kennels and their lines which made a great impact on the Deutsch Kurzhaar we have today.
Hege Haus
Dr. Emil Hegemann, the originator of the Hege Haus affix. came to the GSP by way of the Drathaar and the Kleiner Munsterlander, and his interest in breeding animals included that of cattle and horses. His breeding and selection program for Shorthairs was based very largely on practical hunting performance, for he was, until his death at the age of 92, a dedicated and passionate hunter. Dr. Hegemann kept notes on his dogs, such as, 'too small; too boisterous; not sharp; killed too late; little enthusiasm to trail scent and conformation only just OK'. Gun shy dogs did not return from the hunt (excerpts from Frau Stramann's (a daughter of Dr. Emil Hegemann) booklet which detailed a short history of their kennel).
Dr. Hegemann, with his home-bred, trained and handled KS Bodo v. Hege Haus competed in the first Kleeman Trial which was held in 1939. Frau Stramann wrote, "Bodo was the basic dog of the Hege Haus kennel". In spite of the devestation to the breed wrought by World War II, the Hege Haus male line continued via Bodo sons and grandsons.
All information above is taken from Chapter Six (German Breed History) of the book Der Deutsch Kurzhaar, The German Shorthaired Pointer By Georgina Byrne.
For further reading about the Hege Haus kennel please visit: Deutsch Kurzaar Karpaten Irbis and Donau Wirbeln
Dr. Hegemann, with his home-bred, trained and handled KS Bodo v. Hege Haus competed in the first Kleeman Trial which was held in 1939. Frau Stramann wrote, "Bodo was the basic dog of the Hege Haus kennel". In spite of the devestation to the breed wrought by World War II, the Hege Haus male line continued via Bodo sons and grandsons.
All information above is taken from Chapter Six (German Breed History) of the book Der Deutsch Kurzhaar, The German Shorthaired Pointer By Georgina Byrne.
For further reading about the Hege Haus kennel please visit: Deutsch Kurzaar Karpaten Irbis and Donau Wirbeln
Photo: Catrinel Pauna with her mentor and male, CH Irbis vom Hege-Haus and his breeder, the wonderful Frau Karin Stramann and her husband Wilhelm in September 2001.
Photo from: Deutsch Kurzaar Karpaten Irbis and Donau Wirbeln
In memory of Karin Stramann, kennel of Hege-Haus who passed away on December 2004. No one has shaped the DK breeding like she did. I am very lucky to see many of the dogs from her kennel in Wednesday’s pedigree.
Photo from: Deutsch Kurzaar Karpaten Irbis and Donau Wirbeln
In memory of Karin Stramann, kennel of Hege-Haus who passed away on December 2004. No one has shaped the DK breeding like she did. I am very lucky to see many of the dogs from her kennel in Wednesday’s pedigree.
Pottmes
Apotheker (Pharmacist) Meyerheim began work as a young man, in a pharmacy in Pottmes, a little town in Oberbayern. In 1903, at the age of 24, he started training his first bitch. She was a daughter of Rino II Deutenkofen 623H and Hertha v. Stein 138K. Herr Meyerheim named his bitch Hertha Pottmes, and she became the foundation of a very successful kennel, which persists today under the direction of Frau Franzi Heinen, Herr Meyerheim's daughter (Saalback, 1979).
The Pottmess kennel practiced intensive inbreeding, a program similar to the Osterberg and Hege Haus kennels. In the 20 years up to that point, only four outcrosses had been make with only dogs whose pedigrees bore some type of relationship to the Pottmes "motherline" and usually on the dam's side. Following each outcross, intensive inbreeding was followed. According to Dr. Kleeman, this resulted in continued improvement in the quality of the Pottmes dogs.
The most famous and influential Pottmes dog was Quell Pottmes 735Q. He was bred by Dr. Heinen, Frau Heinen's husband who had taken over the kennel from Herr Meyerheim when he passed. Sadly, Dr. Heinen died in 1967, two years before he Quell Pottmes 735Q gained his Kleeman Sieger (KS) title. The handsome KS Quell, was the first black and white Kurzhaar Sieger, and in 1970 Kleeman Sieger.
All information above is taken from Chapter Six (German Breed History) of the book Der Deutsch Kurzhaar, The German Shorthaired Pointer By Georgina Byrne.
The Pottmess kennel practiced intensive inbreeding, a program similar to the Osterberg and Hege Haus kennels. In the 20 years up to that point, only four outcrosses had been make with only dogs whose pedigrees bore some type of relationship to the Pottmes "motherline" and usually on the dam's side. Following each outcross, intensive inbreeding was followed. According to Dr. Kleeman, this resulted in continued improvement in the quality of the Pottmes dogs.
The most famous and influential Pottmes dog was Quell Pottmes 735Q. He was bred by Dr. Heinen, Frau Heinen's husband who had taken over the kennel from Herr Meyerheim when he passed. Sadly, Dr. Heinen died in 1967, two years before he Quell Pottmes 735Q gained his Kleeman Sieger (KS) title. The handsome KS Quell, was the first black and white Kurzhaar Sieger, and in 1970 Kleeman Sieger.
All information above is taken from Chapter Six (German Breed History) of the book Der Deutsch Kurzhaar, The German Shorthaired Pointer By Georgina Byrne.
Sonja II Pottmes
"Our Sonja comes from the oldest active German kennel, the well-known Pöttmes kennel founded in 1903 by Mr. Meyerheim, a pharmacist from a little town in Oberbayern named Pöttmes." Wednesday's Great Grandmother. Photo from: Deutsch Kurzaar Karpaten Irbis and Donau Wirbeln |
KS Nadja Pottmes (dam of Sonja II Pottmes) at the IKP Test in Austria with Catrinel Pauna and her owner, Gerhard Boxan.
Wednesday's Great Great Grandmother. Photo from: Deutsch Kurzaar Karpaten Irbis and Donau Wirbeln |
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