Hämmerli (weapons manufacturer)
| Hämmerli & Co. AG | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1863 |
| Seat | Lenzburg until 2003, Neuhausen am Rheinfall from 2003 to 2006 |
| Branch | Weapons manufacturer |
| Website | www.haemmerli.info |
Hämmerli was a Swiss arms manufacturer based in Neuhausen am Rheinfall . Hämmerli has been a brand of the Umarex company in Arnsberg since 2006 . Production and customer service for Hämmerli weapons are at Walther in Ulm .
history
The company was founded in Lenzburg in 1863 by master locksmith Johann Ulrich Hämmerli (1824–1891) . From 1863 the Federal Military Administration was supplied. His son Jeanot took over the company as a gunsmith together with Johann Hausch in 1876. The company traded under the name of Hämmerli & Hausch and, from 1921, as Rudolf Hämmerli & Co. After the death of the owner Rudolf Hämmerli (1886–1946), the company became Hämmerli & Co. AG in 1946, and in 1971 it was taken over by the Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG ) adopted. In 2000, the weapons division of SIG was sold to Lüke- und Ortmeier-Holding and in the same year Hämmerli was re-established as an independent company. The new Hämmerli AG then moved from Zug to the production site in Lenzburg in 2001 and was relocated to Neuhausen am Rheinfall in 2003. The Lenzburg site was given up and the buildings on the traditional 25,000 m² site were transferred to another use. The Hämmerli company merged with SAN Swiss Arms AG in 2006 and Umarex took over the Hämmerli brand from the Lüke and Ortmeier Group in the same year.
Hämmerli became known for the construction of precise sporting weapons for the disciplines of free pistols and sport pistols, with which a large number of national and international competitions were won. Against this background, the produced sporting weapons were also included in a prohibited exception list for Olympic sporting weapons of the California Department of Justice. The best-known model series is the company's collaboration with Walther developed automatic pistol Hämmerli-Walther . Their development goes back to a license agreement from March 1950, according to which Walther passed on the know-how for the development of automatic weapons to Hämmerli. Until the 1960s, Hämmerli paid royalties to Walther on the basis of the agreement. In addition to firearms, Hämmerli also developed and built compressed air weapons in Tiengen , with which great successes were repeatedly achieved at championships in the 1960s
Products
Sporting weapons
Single-shot pistols:
- Hämmerli Free Pistol MP33
- Hämmerli Free Pistole 100 (USA: "Olympia Model 52 Match)
- Hämmerli Free Pistol 101/102/103
- Hämmerli Free Pistol 104/105
- Hämmerli Free Pistol 106/107
- Hämmerli sport pistol 120 long and short
- Hämmerli Free Pistol 150/151/152 Electronic
- Hämmerli Free Pistol 160/162 Electronic
- Hämmerli match pistol FP 10 / FP 60
Multi-shot pistols:
- Hämmerli-Walther Olympia pistol 200
- Hämmerli-Walther 201/202
- Hämmerli-Walther 203 / Americal Model 204/205
- Hämmerli Rapid Fire Pistol International 206/207
- Hämmerli standard gun 208 / 208s / 211
- Hämmerli rapid fire pistol 209/210
- Hämmerli hunting pistol 212
- Hämmerli standard and sport pistol 214/215 / 215s
- Hämmerli rapid fire pistol 230/232
- Hämmerli sports pistol 280
- Hämmerli rapid fire pistol SP20 / SP20 RRS
- Hämmerli sport pistol x-esse
- SIG Hämmerli self-loading pistol P220 KK
- SIG Hämmerli sports pistol P240
Air and Co2 guns:
- Hämmerli P1
- Hämmerli Sparkler
- Hämmerli single
- Hämmerli Master
- Hämmerli Rapid
- Hämmerli duel
- Hämmerli Prince
- Hämmerli 480 / 480K / 480K2 / 480 Junior
- Hämmerli AP40 Match / AP40 Junior
Revolver:
- Hämmerli Dakota
- Hämmerli Virginian
Military weapons
Hämmerli also provided components such as barrels and spare parts for the assault rifle 90 of the Swiss Army ago.
Police weapons
In 1956, "Hämmerli GmbH Tiengen" was founded as a branch in Tiengen in order to be able to operate in what was then the EEC and the EFTA area . From 1979 the production of closures and spare parts for the SIG-Sauer pistols P220 and P225 was started. These 9 mm Parabellum caliber weapons developed by SIG- Neuhausen were manufactured by the then subsidiary JP Sauer & Sohn with the assistance of Hämmerli GmbH Tiengen and are still used as service weapons by the German state police.
literature
- Diethard Klein (translator): Firearms . Text editing by Dr. Burkhard Busse and Alex Buchner, Moewig Verlag, 1991, ISBN 3-8118-8563-4 .
- NU Schweinfurth: HÄMMERLI pistols and revolvers. VS Medien Verlag, Bad Ems 2013, ISBN 978-3-944196-01-5 .
Web links
- Official website (German)
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Hämmerli company at www.muzzle.de
- ↑ Reference to customer service for Hämmerli weapons on the Walther help page
- ↑ Hämmerli, Germany / Switzerland at swords and more ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ A b Ian V. Hogg, John Weeks, John Walther: Hämmerli . In: Pistols of the World . David & Charles, 2004, ISBN 978-0-87349-460-1 , pp. 149-153 .
- ↑ Internet excerpt for SAN Swiss Arms AG in the commercial register of the Canton of Zug, year 2000
- ↑ Internet excerpt for Hämmerli AG in the commercial register of the canton of Zug, 2000-2001
- ↑ Internet excerpt for Hämmerli AG in the commercial register of the Canton of Aargau, year 2001-2003
- ↑ Internet excerpt for Hämmerli AG in the commercial register of the canton of Schaffhausen, year 2003-2006
- ↑ Photo documentation prepared on behalf of the city of Lenzburg and a. with pictures of the Hämmerli area
- ^ Photos from the Hämmerli area in Lenzburg on the MITAC website , accessed on April 6, 2013
- ↑ Ulrich Eichstädt: 150 years of Hämmerli: s'Tüpfli uf em i. In: Schiessen Schweiz (magazine of the Swiss Shooting Association), No. 12, December 2013, p.42f. (bilingual, German & French)
- ↑ roster of exempted olympic competition pistols. (PDF; 27 kB)
- ↑ a b Hoggs et al .: Pistols of the World . P. 151.
- ^ Hämmerli advertisement from 1965 for sporting arms.
- ↑ Hämmerli advertisement from 1965 for CO2 sport pistols.
