Alex Seidel

Alexius Wilhelm Seidel (born July 4, 1909 ; † October 24, 1989 ) was a German engineer , entrepreneur, weapons manufacturer and co-founder of the Heckler & Koch company .

Life

Alex Seidel is the son of the chief master at the weapons manufacturer Mauser AG in Oberndorf am Neckar Paul Seidel and his wife Josephine, née Bantle. From 1927 to 1928 he completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at Mauser AG in Oberndorf am Neckar . Subsequently he studied until 1932 at the Württemberg State Higher School of Mechanical Engineering in Esslingen am Neckar engineering . After its successful completion, Mauser worked as an engineer until the end of the Second World War . Seidel was group leader for the pistol development sector within the development and construction department at Mauser . The HSc pistol was one of his most famous developments. From autumn 1944 until the end of the war he worked on the development of the “people's pistol” demanded by the army command, which was based on Adolf Hitler's “Volkssturm decree” of September 25, 1944. However, the weapon did not go into series production, of which only two samples were made.

On December 28, 1949, together with Edmund Heckler and Theodor Koch, he founded Heckler & Koch GmbH , which later became one of the most important German armaments groups of the post-war period. He ran this company until his retirement on December 19, 1980. On April 25, 1981, Seidel was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

literature

Manfred Kersten, Walter Schmid: Heckler & Koch: HK; the official history of the Oberndorf company Heckler & Koch; Insights into the history, description of the weapon models, presentation of the technology . Weispfennig, Wuppertal 1999, ISBN 3-00-005091-4 .

Web links

Homepage of the Heckler & Koch company; history

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Manfred Kersten, Walter Schmid: Heckler & Koch: HK; the official history of the Oberndorf company Heckler & Koch; Insights into the history, description of the weapon models, presentation of the technology . Weispfennig, Wuppertal 1999, p. 18.
^ Manfred Kersten, Walter Schmid: Heckler & Koch: HK; the official history of the Oberndorf company Heckler & Koch; Insights into the history, description of the weapon models, presentation of the technology . Weispfennig, Wuppertal 1999, p. 29.

personal data
SURNAME	Seidel, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Seidel, Alexius Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German engineer, entrepreneur, arms manufacturer and co-founder of the Heckler & Koch company
DATE OF BIRTH	4th July 1909
DATE OF DEATH	October 24, 1989

[Heckler_&_Koch_18-1] Manfred Kersten, Walter Schmid: Heckler & Koch: HK; the official history of the Oberndorf company Heckler & Koch; Insights into the history, description of the weapon models, presentation of the technology . Weispfennig, Wuppertal 1999, p. 18.

[2] Manfred Kersten, Walter Schmid: Heckler & Koch: HK; the official history of the Oberndorf company Heckler & Koch; Insights into the history, description of the weapon models, presentation of the technology . Weispfennig, Wuppertal 1999, p. 29.