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Wilhelm Mauser (2 May 1834 – 13 January 1882) was a German weapon designer and manufacturer/industrialist. Biography. Mauser was born in Oberndorf am Neckar, in what was then the Kingdom of Württemberg. His father and his four brothers were gunsmiths.
Together with his brother Wilhelm Mauser, Peter Paul Mauser designed the Mauser Model 1871 rifle, the first of a successful line of Mauser rifles and pistols. The rifle was adopted as the Gewehr 71 or Infanterie-Gewehr 71 and was the first metal cartridge weapon of the German Empire.
It is the story of how two lowly German gunsmiths, Paul and Wilhelm Mauser, seized upon and perfected the elementary application of Dreyse and used it in conjunction with a newly developed metallic cartridge to produce the first truly successful German rifle.
Mauser, originally the Königlich Württembergische Gewehrfabrik, was a German arms manufacturer. Their line of bolt-action rifles and semi-automatic pistols was produced beginning in the 1870s for the German armed forces.
Jul 27, 2023 · Wilhelm died unexpectedly in 1872 at age 47, but not before the German Army adopted the Mauser Model 1871 rifle to replace the aging Dreyse Needle Gun. The Model 1871 was influenced by the Dreyse, whose earliest incarnation had been the first bolt action rifle back in 1841.
Jun 1, 2022 · It launched in 1812 when brothers Peter Paul Mauser and Wilhelm Mauser decided they could improve on rifle design. The first factory was a no-longer-used Augustinian monastery built in 1264.
Wilhelm Mauser is a German designer and organizer of the production of small arms.
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