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The '''German Rex''' is a [[breed]] of [[domestic cat]].

== Description ==
The German Rex is a medium-sized breed with slender legs of a medium length. The head is round with well-developed cheeks and large, open ears. The eyes are of medium size in colours related to the coat colour. The coat is silky and short with a tendency to curl. The whiskers also curl, though less strongly than in the Cornish Rex. They may be nearly straight. All colours of coat, including white, are allowed. The body development is heavier than in the [[Cornish Rex]] - more like the [[European Shorthair]]s.

== Temperament ==
A German Rex cat is very friendly and quickly bonds with its human. It is lively, playful, and intelligent. Its temperament is much the same as a [[Cornish Rex]].

== History ==
An early Rex-type cat from Germany was ''Kater Munk'', a cat of the family of one Erna Schneider, that was born 1930 or 1931 in a village near then-[[Königsberg]], [[German Reich]] (today's Kaliningrad, [[Russia]]). ''Munk'' was the son of a mahogany<!-- original: "tabakfarbene" (tobacco-colored) --><ref name=":0">((Cite web|url=https://pawpeds.com/pawacademy/history/germanrex/|title=The revival of the German Rex|last=Batchelor|first=Tony|date=April 2006|website=Paw Peds))</ref><ref>((Cite web|url=https://german-rex.lima-city.de/Englisch/history/Story.htm|title=The Story of the German Rex|last=Mrs. dr. R. Scheuer-Karpin, Ilona Jaenicke and Andrea Edel|date=March 2014|website=german-rex.lima-city.de))</ref> [[Angora cat]] and a [[Russian Blue]]. There were one (some sources say two) other curly cat(s) in the litter which was castrated early. ''Munk'' spread his genes plentifully among the village's cat population till his death in 1944 or 1945. The Schneiders valued the strong tom with a penchant for catching fish from the family's garden pond for himself, not for his curly coat; he was, it seems, referred to colloquially as a ''Preußig Rex'' ("Prussian Rex", in local dialect).((Citation needed|date=August 2007)) German Rex researchers do not consider Kater Munk to be related to the German Rex breed<ref>((cite web|url=http://pawpeds.com/pawacademy/history/germanrex/ |title=PawPeds |publisher=PawPeds |access-date=2013-12-19))</ref> and state that he was never bred.

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In the summer of 1951, a doctor in [[Berlin-Buch]] ([[Pankow]] borough), Rose Scheuer-Karpin, noticed a black curly-coated cat in the ''Hufelandklinik'' hospital garden. The clinic's personnel told her that they had known the cat since 1947. The doctor named the cat ''Lämmchen'' ([[German (language)|German]] for "little lamb"). Her supposition that she must be the result of a mutation, was shown to be correct. Thus ''Lämmchen'' was the first breeder-owned Rex-type cat and the maternal ancestor of all the current German Rex.

The first two German Rex deliberately bred were two Rex kittens from a 1957 litter of four, offspring of ''Lämmchen'' and the straight-coated son ''Fridolin'' she had with a stray black tom ''Blackie'' adopted by Scheuer-Karpin. ''Lämmchen'' died on December 19, 1964, or in 1967, indicating she had been very young when first sighted in 1947. She left a number of Rex and [[crossbreed|crossbred]] descendants - the last one of her offspring was born in 1962 - most of which were used to improve other breeds such as the [[Cornish Rex]] which was suffering from skin problems due to being descended from genetically impoverished thoroughbred stock. In 1968, the lineage hinged on the efforts of the [[East Germany|GDR]] cattery ''vom Grund'' who acquired the last 3 Rex offspring of ''Lämmchen'' not sold abroad, and amplified the lineage with [[European Shorthair]] and mixed-breeds. A stock was established in the West through the efforts of the [[Federal Republic of Germany|FRG]] ''von Zeitz'' cattery in 1973 which in the previous year had acquired their sample of the allele with the white female [[crossbreed|crossbred]] ''Silke vom Grund''. After some years, the breed slowly became more plentiful.

Another Rex cat turned up in Berlin-Buch, apparently in the late 1950s. The tom named ''Schnurzel'' eventually contributed to German Rex breeding; it is not known how he related to ''Lämmchen'' but presumably he was a grandson of hers, as Scheuer-Karpin would let her cats roam free through the gardens and forests of Buch. Even in more recent times, the genetic legacy of ''Lämmchen'' if not ''Munk'' manifests itself on occasion in the Berlin area, such as ''Pumina'', found as a stray inage of ''Preuss from Siegburg'' which turned up in 1979 in the [[Rhineland]] town of [[Siegburg]] does not appear to be related to be a German Rex proper; it is almost certainly not related to ''Lämmchen''. Nonetheless, his descendants may have contributed to the German Rex lineage of today.
[[Image:German rex alana.JPG|thumb|right|200px|German Rex kitten ''Alana''.<br/>It is easy to see why Scheuer-Karpin would call her cat ''Lämmchen''.((Clarify|reason=No context given about the point of the sentence|date=May 2022))]]

== Genetics ==
It is not certainly known how ''Lämmchen'' relates to ''Munk'', only that the German Rex mutation - on the same [[gene]] as in the [[Cornish Rex]] - is [[recessive]], meaning it will only show when both [[allele]]s are "Rex", and that ''Munk'' is the first thoroughly documented Rex cat, though as stories of "children cuddling curly coated kittens"<ref name=":0" /><!-- the work (book?) describing Devoin and Cornish Rex for the first time --> attest, Rex alleles turn up every now and then. Presumably, ''Munk'' sired many offspring with local cats, none of which would have had curly fur as the allele of ''Munk'''s straight-haired mates would dominate. In the following years, any curly-haired cats in the Königsberg area went unnoticed or at least were not bred on purpose; the allele nonetheless would have stood good chances to remain in the local cat population, as recessive alleles have a very low probability to disappear entirely.

==References==
((Portal|Germany|Cats))
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== External links ==
* Batchelor, Anthony (2006): ''[http://www.pawpeds.com/pawacademy/history/germanrex/ The revival of the German Rex] ((Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127082954/http://www.pawpeds.com/pawacademy/history/germanrex/ |date=2012-01-27 ))''. PawAcademy article.
* Jaenicke, Ilona (2007): ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930165527/http://www.german-rex.de/Geschichte/geschichte.htm Die Geschichte der German Rex]'' [in German]. Version of

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