Hoi Per,
The former name was not German wolfdog buth
Alsatian wolfdog.
Alsatian = Alsace , a region in Germany.(Elzas)
at
http://www.grapevine.net/~wolf2dog/index.html
there is a very well documented article written by Ann Dresselhaus including
copy's of some pages of the originals studbook of the GS and more, also a
copy of a former Belgian magazine about the Alsatian wolfdog.
In Belgium, older people , still speak about "Elzasser" meaning a German
shephard and in older books (for instance Juliette de Bairacly Levy , a
vet.) they write about the alsatian wolfdog , meaning GS.
Greets
Roger
Belgium.