FRIEDERUN AND PHILIP STOCKMANN
and the Vom Dom Boxers
The names Stockmann and Vom Dom are the most important ones in the history of American Boxers. Friederun Stockmann was from Riga in Germany. In Munich Friederun met and was owned by her first boxer, Pluto. And it was there she met and married Pluto's owner, Philip Stockmann.
Frau Stockmann was not in the Boxer scene at the very beginning of the breed, but she was a major force in the breed very soon after. Frau was around 5 when the first boxer show was held in Munich in 1895. She showed her first Boxer, Laska, a bitch in about 1910.
Stockmann's Rolf v. Vogelsberg was one of the major Boxer sires. According to records, Rolf began his career at two in 1910. Her first homebred champion and Rolf's son Dampf vom Dom, whelped Sept 28, .1912.
Rolf earned the German title of Seiger five times, the last being at the age of eleven after four years of service with Philip Stockmann during World War I in the front lines.
Rolf's decendants from 1910 to 1925 were some of the major sires of the German lines. In direct line of descents from Rolf they were: Ch. Rolf Walhall, Ch. Moritz v. Goldrain, Ch. Casar v Deutenkofen, Ch. Buko v. Biederstein, to Ivein v. Dom.
Ivein v. Dom, whelped in January, 1925, represented Frau Stockmann's renaissance in the breeding of Boxers after WWI. Ivein's dam was Zwibel, grandaughter of Rolf v. Vogelsberg and his sire was Buko v. Biederstein a great great grandson of Rolf. Iwein never earned a German championship, but Frau Stockmann says that her sixth sense told her to keep Ivein and to breed him. He became the sire of the great German sire, Sigurd v. Dom.
During the five years that he remained in Germany, Sigurd attained a rank as a show dog and sire equal to the great Rof V. Vogelsberg. At the age of 5 he was sold to American to become a part of the Barmere Kennels in Ca. John Wagner quotes: "To Sigurd, more than to any other individual dog we owe the tremendous advance in consistent perfected balance of Power and Elegance.
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