My GSD's sire was an eastern european import and hovered around a buck and a quarter, and he was not in the least bit fat. My Timber seasonally drifts between 105 - 110 and I consider him an exceptionally large Shepherd...he's substantially bigger and exhibits far mor musculature than the dog pictured in the article (see photos on my FR home page.)
Too many in both the AKC and the SV have bred gigantic (even as they disdain the Shiloh Shepherds); I'm not talking fat. Even those in SV that are overall good weight, are heavy-boned, built like Rotties. They should be lighter in build.
My sister's dog - wonderful - was 110. Too heavy. My 2 long-term dogs, 1st Shana years ago and now Tara the wimp, weighed from 60-70 lbs. Now that I think of it, the "backyard" farm GS we got 25 years ago was about that weight. I had a pup before Tara who clearly was not going to be big - at 6 mos she was just 40 lbs. A tad underweight (miraculous in this day)! Although by now she's probably just made the grade (sold her young due to excitement-urination problems).