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DEUTSCHE
Teckelklub
An almost 130-year-old success story
History
The foundation was laid almost 129 years ago when two Prussian o cers got together in Berlin to promote the breeding of Teckel and started looking for like-minded people necessary for the re- quired membership numbers to create the German Teckel Club – Deutsche Teckelklub 1888 e.V. (DTK).
The founding fathers were Emil Ilgner and Claus Graf Hahn. Even though literature about our Dachshunds showed pictures and reports as early as around the middle of the 13th century, the actual deliberate breeding of Dachshunds began in 1860 by doyen Wilhelm von Daake, a Prussian Chief Forester in Königshof.
At the turn of the 19th century the British were the first to steer the hunting breeds into de- fined breeding lines and, inevitably, it did not take long before this trend spread to Germany. So, on June 18 1888, the DTK was founded in Germany. After just 2 years the membership numbers had grown to 160 and in 1889 the first breed book was published. Emil Ilgner, the first Chairman of the DTK, has been followed in this position by well-known personalities to this day. In 1895, the breed characteristics were recorded for the first time. The positive development of puppy num- bers and members continued over the years and decades and reached its peak in 1990 with ca. 21.000 puppies per year and almost 30.000 members..
The DTK Today
The DTK is a member of the German Kennel Club (Verband für das Deutsche Hundewesen, VDH), of the Federation Cynologique Internationale (FCI), of the German Hunting Dog Breed Fe- deration (Jagdgebrauchshundeverband, JGHV) and of the World Union Teckel (Welt Union Teckel, WUT).The DTK keeps a breed book, which maintains all the Teckels bred by its members. Test re- sults are recorded in the breed book as well and serve breeders as a valuable reference. In accor- dance with its Bylaws the DTK promotes all e orts to breed the Teckel with a perfect body, to preserve its original temperament and to pre-
serve its hunting abilities, in order to accom- modate sportsmanlike hunt and, thereby, the conservation of game.
The DTK is divided into 17 Regional Districts with more than 300 groups and sections and has ca. 20.000 members. Every year ca. 6000 puppies are whelped in the 9 breeds the DTK maintains.
The DTK’s headquarters is located on the Prinzenstrasse in Duisburg, which centrally houses the management and breed book o ce.
The breed book o ce is, next to the group
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