So they brought up a meeting where they wanted to test all the "Old" German gundogs, to set up the basis for the new standard. Prince Solms however had other iedeas. He proposed a meeting with all the available Gundogs, where they would be tested in their own way of working. The Winners of those tests should then be presented in a new test where the first priority was on Working, second was conformation and as last the colour of the dog. He wanted to use the best dogs for the basis of the new standard.

Where these "Old" German pointing dogs came from there, nobody knows for sure.  Possible the ancestors came originally out of the Mediterranean and England. Due to the fact that in countries like Italy, Greece and Spain the red-leg partridge have ideal biotopes And where favoured game like the woodcock and snipe would over winter .

The people needed for this type of game more a "bird" dog then in the north of Europe and also in Germany. The dogs in the Mediterranean and England were created to help the hunters to point birds so they could throw with nets or had to work with trained birds of prey. This pointing of the dogs were trained and by means of selective breeding.

When men learned to used fire arms, an new development came. Now they could shot a bird in flight which should be retrieved. Because of the high costs for fire arms and the dogs, this "game" was mainly for the nobles. In several noble families they started selective breeding to acquire the pointing dog they needed.

For a large part this happened not in Germany but mainly in Spain, Italy and France and later in England. One theory in German about the development of the German Pointing dog is that the ancestors were bloodhounds. However this is the biggest misunderstanding, caused by a misinterpretation of the term bloodhound. The thought was that the ancestors were the heavy build hounds with the known sad looking eyes, instead they meant with the term "bloodhound" dogs which were being bred high in blood (line breeding).

Probably there were in the beginning of the 19th century pointing dogs in Germany, which had ancestors of the Spanish Pointer. These were dogs of the Hektor I- Type. Which was a heavily version of the Spanish Pointer. The dogs of the Hektor I-type had a lack of stamina and will. They wanted to improve this by breeding in the English Pointer. The results were terrible, and mostly on retrieving, waterwork, bloodscent, sharpness en head carriage. This could be foreseen since the Pointer breeders wanted dogs which would not chase hares and hunted with a low head carriage.  While the breeders of the new standard wanted those properties, back then!.

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So they concentrated on the dogs who were in their reach and found the best results by way of selective breeding. However better results were being made by breeding in Foxhounds combined with the Pointer.

For the large part we could say that the ancestors were mostly Pointing dogs bred by the Spanish and French nobles. These dogs were lighter, more elegant versions.  Once in while there were heavily versions as well. The offspring of these dogs fell out in several shapes.

Up on today we can still see this in the GSP, only the differences are not that big anymore. This applies in particular to the different colour styles we see at today?s GSP?s. This development was reached under the influence from the Hegewald and Brauntigerklubs, wich later developed to a GSP Club.

Due to the fact that the GSP Club (Klub Kurzhaar) out of that time under control of the first presidents Sebastian Tillman, H. Hulsmann and  Dr. Paul Kleemann hold on, on their own breeding program and requirements for the allround GSP Gundog, the present GSP was created.

This can be said expressly by the words of Dr. Von Morald in 1927:"When we look at the development of the GSP, then we must say that in the time of 30 years this race was created by the soul-awereness of the breed and especially the GSP Club (Klub Kurzhaar)".