Max Ketzel

Max Ketzel was born at Reichenbach in Saxony in 1897. After being discharged from the German Army at the end of WW I, he married and settled in Hanover.

The first reference to him in German dog records may be found in Munich Stud Book #17, for the year 1931, in which the granting to him of the kennel name "von Atlantic" was recorded. In that same year, Mr. Ketzel came to the United States, bringing with him from Hanover a local bitch, Bella vd Loewentrutz, a daughter of the German Sieger Drill v Gumbertusbrunnen.

We assume she arrived here in whelp, as she produced her first litter on the 10th of August that same year, which was registered in Munich in the 1932 Stud Book, volume 18. Failing in his efforts to have his German kennel name recognized by the AKC, Mr. Ketzel chose the very appropriate "Edelstamm" and was breeding Boxers uninterruptedly to the time of his death in 1960.

He was a founder of the American Boxer Club and a member of the Board of Governors as early as 1936. He made several trips to Germany to visit the Sieger show during the 1930s.