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Alison Kollenberg Resumé

Alison Kollenberg’s involvement with pedigreed dogs and their training began in 1972. Her first Dobermanns became Australian Champions in the conformation rings and won many Best-In-Group, Best-In-Show awards at Agricultural and Royal Shows as well as Dog of the Year awards. Meeting and marrying Jens Kollenberg in 1980, the pair moved to Germany where she handled many of the kennel’s internationally famous dogs to World, National Champion and Sieger titles in European countries.

Between the years 1985-2021 Alison has trained and titled 29 working dogs from four different breeds; namely Dobermanns, German Shepherd Dogs, Rottweiler and Malinois.  She has competed at World Championships (FMBB x 2), at State & club trials in DVG, DV, SV, ADRK clubs in Germany, as well as club and National trials in the Australian organizations AUSC (Australian United Schutzhund Clubs), WGSA (Working German Shepherds Australia), SA (Schutzhund Australia) & WMA (Working Malinois Australia).

Alison is arguably the most prolific winner of National SchH/IPO/IGP titles in Australia, currently with 40 National Championship titles to her name across a wide range of National awards. From 29 dogs Alison has titled, 24 were self trained and titled with the majority also being self-bred. Twenty-one of these were self-trained to their SchH/IPO/VPG/IGP and FH titles. From the sixteen Australian National Championship Trials she has competed in between the years 2002-2022, dogs she trained won 27 of these competition’s National titles in BH/Sch.H/IPO/IGP & Team Championships, together with a further 13 National titles awarded for High in Trial Tracking, Obedience and Protection. Other noteable  High-in-Trial awards were winning State Championships in Germany (Tracking) and in Australia (IPO), at “Pokalkämpft”(German inter-club trophy competitions), as well as numerous High-in-Trial wins at Club trials attended in two countries. More recently she gained Mondioring titles at Australian competitions.

Amongst the stand out self-bred, trained & titled Champions was multi-Siegerin and Champion, Mia vom Norden Stamm, SchH3, FH2.  In 1989 Mia won High-in-Trial at the largest Regional Schutzhund trial held in North Germany that year, with 22 entries over 3 days.  The team also won the highest scoring dog at the North German Regional State Tracking Championship trial (100 points).  In 2000 an American-bred Dobermann male that Alison trained and trialled for an American colleague scored High-in-Trial Obedience at an SV inter-club 50-Year Jubilee Team Championship Trial.  (NB: The club’s qualifying 3 man team also placed third in the competition overall. See photos and article in SV Zeitung 2/2000, page 101.) In 2010 Alison also won the trophy for High-in-Trial Track at the DVG Landesgruppe Westfalen Meisterschaft (the largest DVG State Championship in Germany held over 4 days) with another self-bred, self trained bitch, Nordenstamm Hannah IPO3, FH2, IPO-FH, Australian National FH Champion & Grand National IPO Champion. Hannah was the only dog in the 4 day competition to score a perfect 100 points in tracking!

Alison has trained eight dogs from 3 breeds (Dobermann, German Shepherd Dogs, Malinois) to their Master Tracking Levels in FH and IPO-FH, five dogs to AD (Endurance title), countless dogs to BH (FCI Companion Dog title), as well as earned countless individual titles for FPr. and UPr. (Tracking and Obedience titles.) While living in Germany she prepared numerous dogs from two breeds (German Shepherd Dogs and Dobermanns) for their German Zuchtauglichkeitprüfungen (ZTP) and Körungen, both being mandatory Breed Surveys in that country.

Alison qualified many times over for the Australian United Schutzhund Club’s Gold Medal award and was equally over-qualified as a Schutzhund 3 Club member of national organizations in both the USA & Australia.

Alison has also been a prolific author of breed articles since 1985.  Her articles have been published in international and national magazines in Britain, South Africa, Germany, Holland, Australia, the USA and Russia and she also contributed the bulk of the original photos and copy used in compiling  two Dutch breed books, ” In the Beginning…” and,”100 Dobermann Dogs and Bitches.”

Living in Australia in 1991, Alison and her husband Jens, then members of the Albert Districts Dog Training Club, started a new sportdog club  nearer to home on the Gold Coast, when the pair founded the Gold Coast Sportdog Club Inc. Under their watch the Gold Coast Sportdog Club  arguably became the strongest Schutzhund club in Australia for producing titled dogs!  During this time Alison served as the Gold Coast Sportdog Club’s Secretary, as Treasurer and as a Training Officer, over a period of 19 years. 

Alison was also National Secretary in the Australian United Schutzhund Clubs Inc., a founding member and a former National Secretary plus licensed Schutzhund Judge in both Working German Shepherds Australia Inc. and Schutzhund Australia Inc.  During this time she was also Editor of the hard copy sport dog magazine, Dogsport Australia.

In 2002, in her role as Gold Coast Club Secretary, Alison initiated Australia’s very first National Championship Schutzhund Trial on the Gold Coast,  inviting the Canadian (SV) Judge, Lance Collins, to officiate.  At this event she also won 2002 National IPO High-in-Trial and the National H.O.T. Champion titles with her self-trained German Shepherd import, Grazie v.d. Talka Marda SchH3, FH2 + 2 x National FH Champion.

To date Alison has served as the National Secretary in four different national sport dog organizations; namely the Australian United Schutzhund Clubs (AUSC)/1990, Working German Shepherds Australia (WGSA)/2006, Schutzhund Australia (SA)/2007 and Working Malinois Australia (WMA)/2015.  Alison has sat on the Executive Board of breed clubs as well as Sportdog clubs.  She was Treasurer in the Dobermann Club of Queensland (Australia), served as a Secretary, Treasurer and Editor in the Australian United Schutzhund Clubs Inc., Working German Shepherds Australia Inc. and Schutzhund Australia Inc., as well as being Training Officer in Australian and German sport dog clubs (DV.eV Kiel.) 

Alison is the current club Secretary of WMA Gold Coast and National Secretary and Judge in Working Malinois Australia Inc.

Together with her husband Jens, the pair initiated taking the first Australian-bred and trained teams to IPO World Championships events.  The pair trained and trialled the first Australian-bred IPO teams to compete at FMBB World Championships (x 2) and the Nordenstamm kennel also bred Nordenstamm Chiller IPO3, FH2, 2007 Australian National IPO High-in-Trial & national H.O.T. Champion, which became the first Australian-bred and trained German Shepherd Dog to compete on a WUSV World Championship! (Click About Us/Our German Shepherd Dogs.)

In 2015, the couple founded Working Malinois Australia Inc., where Alison serves as National Secretary as well as a licensed Working Malinois Australia IGP Judge and Training Officer in WMA’s Gold Coast chapter club. They formed the Organization to promote the Belgian Malinois in the FCI dog sports of IPO and Mondioring, where Alison was proud to have titled Nordenstamm Dixi, the first self-bred, self trained and titled Mondioring dog in Australia!

Alison is a licensed Judge with Arabian Horse Society Australia Ltd., in both conformation and Under-Saddle English and Western events as well as judging other breed and under saddle events. Since 1972 she’s bred and competed with her Arabian Horses in under saddle and conformation classes where the stud’s horses won many Championship awards, including State and National Championship titles and during this time their stud imported and exported purebred Arabian Horses between Germany, Australia and the USA.

Alison’s passion for sport with her dogs remains undiminished.

 

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3 National Champions: Nordenstamm Dixi, Nordenstamm Yes & Nordenstamm Crazee.