Jean sir

Jean Sir (* 1899 ; † unknown) was a German dog breeder and author.

Life

The vocational school teacher Jean Sir was involved in the Society for Dog Research as early as the Weimar Republic . The focus of his work was animal psychology. In the 1930s he became Reich Chairman for the entire dog industry. After the end of the Second World War, Jean Sir worked for several years in the Soviet occupation zone and in the GDR from 1949 in various professions, before he became the full-time editor of the specialist magazine Der Hund, which was published by the German farmers' publishing house and was run by the company's central board in 1952 for sport and technology . He also published a textbook on dog training, which became the basis for the work of the German People's Police. At the same time, he was a leading member of the Central Expert Commission of the German Society for Service and Working Dogs, until it was merged into the Society for Sport and Technology. Then Sir became chairman of the special breeding association German poodles in the dog section in the Association of Allotment Gardeners, Settlers and Small Animal Breeders (VKSK) of the GDR, of which he was also a board member. When his functions during the Nazi era became known in 1963, he was dismissed from these offices.

Publications (selection)

• How do I train my dog? Training as a guard, protection and tracking dog , Berlin: Landbau-Verlag 1952
• Jagd und Wild , Berlin: Deutscher Bauernverlag 1955 (with HJ Hempel, W. Noack and Herbert Zimpel)
• The functional dog house , in: Der Hund 6 (1956) 3, p. 12 f.

literature

• Henrik Bispinck: About folk musicians, dog breeders and rancid margarine. From the reports of the Information Department for 1956 . in: Helge Heidemeyer (ed.): File insights. Contributions to the historic site of the State Security, Berlin: Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records 2016, pp. 24–37 ( online at bstu.de, PDF document, 5.6 MB ).