HISTORY...
Many researchers agree that the dog was the first domesticated animal and locate the beginning of the "man-dog community" some 10,000 years before Christ. From these ancient dogs, descendants of wolves or similar animals, all dogs descend. Bones about 4,000 years old have been found that do not differ greatly from the bone structure of the Schnauzer that, even today, retain a "normal" anatomy. They have skulls of normal width with enough room for the brain, they have well-proportioned jaws, a firm trunk and normal limbs; they are, in short and thank god, absolutely normal dogs.
We made a great leap in time until we found some documentation on the Schnauzer and Pinscher that gave rise to the Giant Schnauzer, around 1860 these dogs stood out among the enormous mass of mestizos that populated the farms of the peasants of Europe. It is stated that the dog that can be seen in an 1850 painting at the feet of Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, is a Giant Schnauzer but this is an exception since the Schnauzer were not dogs of the nobles, they were the dogs of the peasants and from the town and they had to earn that place by being useful and nice.
The Giant Schnauzer is the Schnauzer Standard (also called medium) enlarged by selection, crosses with Alano negro (German Bulldog), Bouvier de Flandes and other undeclared breeds are supposed to have intervened.
In 1907 the “Bayrische Schnauzer –Klub” was created in Bavaria, which dealt with the Münchner Schnauzer (Munich Schnauzer) and Bierschnauzer (Brewers Schnauzer) until, much later, they received the name Riesenschnauzer (Giant Schnauzer). The first records of Giants at the Pinscher-Schnauzer Club date from 1910.
The Giant Schnauzer has been, since those times, accompanying errands, taking care of beer transports, assisting disabled people, hunting rats, raising cattle, taking care of stables, helping police, gendarmerie, army, etc. In search of drugs, rescue, defense, attack and, above all, he has been an unbearable guardian of his masters and his property.
A peasant does not keep a dog if it is not useful to him, if he is not docile and sociable and if it is not safe for his children and the rest of the family. This natural selection gave us this dog of iron health, "off-road" skills and "family" character that the human being has changed in appearance without changing the essence.
