CG Haenel

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CG Haenel GmbH

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legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1840, 2008
resolution 1945
Seat Suhl , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Olaf Sauer (Managing Director)
Number of employees 9 employees (2018)
sales 7.15 million euros (2018)
Branch Weapons manufacturer
Website www.cg-haenel.de

The CG Haenel GmbH is a German weapons manufacturer based in Suhl .

The historical company CG Haenel founded in 1840 (originally: CG Haenel Waffen- u. Fahrradfabrik Suhl ; where CG stands for Carl Gottlieb) dealt with bicycle and light machine construction as well as weapons production and was one of the oldest companies in the Suhl region Dedicated to the design and manufacture of military and civil weapons. The company attributed the under Hugo Schmeisser developed assault rifle 44 the category of weapons of assault rifles and in 1945 during the Soviet occupation dissolved as an independent company and in the state-owned enterprise VEB vehicle and hunting weapons factory "Ernst Thälmann" transferred.

In 2008, the company, equipped with Haenel license and trademark rights from the historical company, resumed operations and again manufactured hunting rifles in Suhl . Today Haenel heard about the Arab arms manufacturers Caracal International belonging Merkel group indirectly to the state concern EDGE Group from the United Arab Emirates .

history

Alte Schmiede, the first factory building in Suhler Bahnhofstrasse

The Prussian rifle factory commissioner Carl Gottlieb Haenel began producing bicycles and weapons in 1840 - a range combination that was not uncommon at that time because it required comparable means of production and skills. Also Simson (Suhl) presented both two-wheelers and weapons here. In 1887, the Suhl-based weapons designer CW Aydt joined the company in order to produce his Aydt target rifle and later the Aydt target pistol using the same system in a sports weapons department founded specifically for this purpose. When the German Army introduced the Reichsrevolver M1879 and later the M1883 in 1879 , Haenel joined forces with the sports weapons manufacturer V. Ch. Schilling as the "Suhl Consortium " and won a share in this contract production (marked: "VCS CGH Suhl") of the Reichsrevolvers. Haenel produced hunting weapons and bayonets for the German army. During the First World War , CG Haenel also manufactured large quantities of the Mauser Model 98 .

1920 to 1934

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With the arrival of the engineer Hugo Schmeisser in 1921, pocket pistols were initially manufactured according to Schmeisser patents. At the same time, the era of automatic weapons began at Haenel: Despite the prohibition by the Versailles Treaty , Schmeisser developed submachine guns. Hugo Schmeisser was the son of the famous gun designer Louis Schmeisser , who developed machine guns at Bergmann in Suhl . Hugo Schmeisser had learned from Bergmann and gained a lot of knowledge about automatic weapons - he was later also referred to as the "father of the automatic carbine". When Schmeisser's developments were licensed to foreign weapons manufacturers, he and the Bergmann family broke up in 1919. Together with his brother Hans Schmeisser , Hugo Schmeisser founded the company “Industriewerk Auhammer Koch und Co.” in Suhl in 1919. During this time the first contact with Haenel occurred, which marked the beginning of a 20-year collaboration. To secure his patent rights, Hugo Schmeisser founded a second company in the summer of 1922 under the name "Gebrüder Schmeisser" in Suhl. This was to prevent Schmeisser from losing all of its patents if Auhammer went bankrupt. Since Haenel was also in financial difficulties, the Schmeisser brothers joined in the spring of 1925 as authorized signatories. Haenel took over Auhammer with all assets and liabilities, which prevented the company from going bankrupt. The Schmeisser brothers remained authorized officers of Haenel, although they were shareholders and in fact managing partners of the company.

Despite the provisions of the Versailles Treaty, the development and testing of submachine guns continued at Haenel. In 1928, the MP28 , which was further developed from the MP18, was presented. The MP28 used a 32-round rod magazine . The MP28 was also a self-locking recoil loader with a ground lock. The weapon was used by the German police after 1928. Deliveries to South Africa , Spain , the Republic of China and Japan were made under a license agreement with the Belgian company Bayard . Almost ten years later, the MP28 was used in the Spanish Civil War. Despite Hugo Schmeisser's constructive success, Haenel ran into bankruptcy several times between 1929 and 1934.

1935 to 1944

In order to have a decisive share in the expected state armaments contracts after the Nazis came to power in 1933, the ten Suhl and Zella-Mehliss weapons companies merged in 1934 to form an association under the name " United Suhl-Zella-Mehlisser Waffenfabriken ". This association organized the direct relations with the departments of the army administration. The individual arms factories from Suhl also set up their own offices in Berlin. The Heereszeugamt marked Haenel products with the acceptance stamp (fxo).

After 1935 Haenel experienced an enormous boom in arms production. In contrast to many other designers, the Schmeisser brothers participated personally in the business through license fees and shares.

From 1938 a new automatic weapon with a new caliber was developed at Haenel. This new automatic weapon had a short cartridge, caliber 7.92 × 33 mm . The weapon was supposed to set itself apart from the MP38 / 40 due to its higher performance and to be produced in large numbers with economical use of material. It was created using the non-cutting sheet metal forming process, the so-called sheet metal stamping technique, and with its help the world's first machine carabiner. This weapon first came to be known as the Mkb42 and subsequently as the MP43 . 10,000 units were already produced for the front in 1943, but in the same year Hitler banned further development and production. It was not until 1944, when the new weapon had a resounding success in a troop trial , that Hitler approved the mass production of the rifle, which had since been renamed the MP44 . In April 1944, the new weapon was named " Sturmgewehr 44 ".

1945

On April 3, 1945, American troops occupied the city of Suhl and imposed a production ban on all arms factories. At the end of June 1945 the Americans evacuated Thuringia and the Red Army occupied the plant. In August 1945, 50 assault rifles 44 were assembled from existing parts and transferred by the Red Army to the Soviet Union for technical evaluation, as well as 10,785 sheets of technical drawings for the manufacture of military weapons.

Haenel in the time of the GDR

After the Second World War , the Haenel works were classified as an armaments factory by the Allies, the works were largely dismantled in 1946 and transported to the Soviet Union as reparations . With the VEB vehicle and hunting weapons factory "Ernst Thälmann" Suhl, weapons production began again in Suhl at the end of the 1940s. After the war, among other things, air rifles and hunting carbines were manufactured under the Haenel Suhl brand .

Haenel today

Repeating rifle Jaeger.10 (2010)

In 2008 the company was re-established under the old name. Today CG Haenel belongs to the Merkel Group , which in turn belongs to the Arab arms manufacturer Caracal International based in Abu Dhabi ( UAE ). The legal owner of the companies mentioned is the EDGE Group (United Arab Emirates). This means that two powerful barrel forging machines are available to CG Haenel as the core technology of handgun construction. The company's first product in 2008 was the RS8 precision rifle system, and in 2009 the larger RS9 version in .338 Lapua Magnum caliber . In 2009 a range of break-open hunting rifles from the Jaeger.8 series was presented. In 2010 Haenel presented the repeater Jaeger.10, the self-loading rifle SLB 2000+ originally developed by Heckler & Koch , the single shot rifle Jaeger.9 and the over-and-under shotgun Jaeger.11, making it a complete range of hunting rifles at the IWA International Arms Exhibition in Nuremberg . In February 2016, the "Haenel RS9" was selected as the new medium-range sniper rifle G29 for the Bundeswehr. In November 2016, Haenel delivered the CR 223 to the Hamburg police. The self-loading rifle had problems with the special ammunition used by the Hamburg police and is being reworked by Haenel. In 2018, according to the annual report, the company had nine employees and generated 7.15 million euros with a loss of 485,000 euros, which the parent company, Merkel Jagd- und Sportwaffen GmbH, took over.

It was not until January 2019 that it became known that Haenel, along with Heckler & Koch, was the remaining supplier in the tender for the successor to the G36 standard armed forces rifle . The Federal Ministry of Defense has been putting out tenders for the Bundeswehr's new assault rifle since April 2017. The G36 successor is about 120,000 assault rifles that should be delivered in 2020 in the original plan. Various arms manufacturers withdrew their participation in the bidding process beforehand. A procurement decision is to be made in the 2nd quarter of 2020. In September 2020 it was announced that Haenel was the winner of the tender for the successor to the G36 in the Bundeswehr with the MK 556 . The process of awarding the order, which is around 250 million euros, is not yet over; a final decision is not expected until the end of 2020 at the earliest.

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  2. ↑ Successor to the G36: Bundeswehr rifle from Thuringia in future. In: n-tv.de. September 14, 2020, accessed September 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Official website
  4. ↑ Bicycle and weapons factory CG HAENEL in Suhl. In: vestpockets.bauli.at. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Haenel Shmeisser (sic!) Mod I ( Memento from December 10, 2003 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Hugo Schmeisser ( Memento from February 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b c Norbert Moczarski : The era of the Schmeisser brothers in the arms factory CG Haenel Suhl 1921–1948. A largely unknown chapter of Suhl's industrial history. In: Yearbook of the Hennebergisch-Franconian History Association . Hildburghausen 1999, p. 237-268 .
  8. ↑ K98k Mauser Page. In: mausershooters.org. Retrieved February 4, 2016 .
  9. ^ Gerhard Hermann: exchange of blows in the fight for assault rifle order of the Bundeswehr. In: Welt Online. January 20, 2019, accessed March 28, 2019 .
  10. ↑ HAENEL wins Bundeswehr tender. In: all4shooters.com. February 3, 2016, accessed February 4, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Medium-range sniper rifle. (No longer available online.) In: Europäische Sicherheit und Technik. February 11, 2016, archived from the original on February 12, 2016 ; accessed on February 12, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Classification of a self-loading rifle model CR 223 from CGHaenel GmbH from 05.11.2013. (PDF) In: polizei.de. November 5, 2013. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Hamburg: Police have to return rifles due to jamming. In: Welt.de. Retrieved November 27, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Andre Zand-Vakili: Jamming - Police are returning new assault rifles. In: Abendblatt.de. August 8, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Haenel applies for an order for 120,000 assault rifles. In: inSuedthueringen.de / Suhler Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. January 24, 2019, accessed January 26, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Successor to G36 assault rifle. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. November 24, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2019 .
  17. ↑ System Assault Rifle Bundeswehr - Decision 2020 expected in European Security & Technology October 12, 2019
  18. ^ System assault rifle Bundeswehr - tender further delayed

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