After the factory was closed, most ex-employees were completely out of Mauser had been the most important employer in the region and for many families it had been their only source of income. They put the Mauser facility back into production through 1946, and even after that time, as they were shipping major machinery back to France, some arms-making activity may have continued.
That all weapons facilities in Germany were to be demolished, but the French were desperate for weapons for their new war in Indochina and their own infrastructure had been badly degraded, so Physical damage to the facility was considered light, but the attack did serve to cripple the firm’s power plant.” After the war, the Allied Powers agreed In 1897, the royal weapons factory, which had been manufacturing Mauser-designed rifles for some time, became Waffenfabrik Mauser AG, and later Mauser-Werke AG.Īccording to Weaver, Speed, and Schmid, in their book Mauser Pistolen: “Mauser-Werke AG, Oberndorf was targeted and bombed by the Allies on February 22, 1945. Oberndorf am Neckar, in the far south of Germany, has been a center for weapon-making since at least 1812, when Frederick I of Württemberg established the royal In 1934 the August Menz Company had released the “PB Spezial” which was issued with interchangeable barrels in 9mm short, 7.65mm Browning. The idea of interchangeable barrels was not new either. So it is not surprising that the HK4 is closely related to the Mauser HSc. One of the owners of the Heckler & Koch Company, Alex Seidel, had been the primary design engineer behind the Mauser HSc (the Hahn- Selbstladespannpistole, Ausführung c) before World War Was accepted as a service pistol for the German Customs Police (Zoll), though it was never quite able to compete with the Walther PPK which was reissued by the Walther Company in the 1950s. But the HK4 was somehow commercially successful, perhaps because it Rifle, 6.35 mm Browning, 7.65mm Browning and 9mm Browning Short.įrom today’s point of view none of the above calibers is particularly effective for self-defense. The name was chosen because the pistol was available with four interchangeable barrel and spring kits. Heckler & Koch Company and its first production pistol, the Model 4 (HK4) which was released in 1968. This article will take a look at the origins of the Today the name Heckler & Koch is synonymous with auto pistols and assault rifles for police and military use, but this was not always the case. First step to pistol production by Heckler & Koch
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