Peter-Paul Mauser

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Paul Mauser (ca.1908)

Peter Paul Mauser , since 1912 Paul von Mauser , (born June 27, 1838 in Oberndorf am Neckar ; † May 29, 1914 there ) was a German weapons designer , businessman in the arms industry and politician .

Life

The father was initially a shoemaker and later made leather saber sheaths for the royal rifle factory in Oberndorf . Paul Mauser and his brother Wilhelm became gunsmiths and initially lived in modest circumstances. Paul Mauser developed various firearms with his brother , and later he founded the Mauser Brothers company with him , which eventually took over the Royal Gun Factory.

The Prussian-German standard rifles M71 , M71 / 84 (the first Reich German military repeating rifle ) and the legendary Mauser System 98 as well as one of the first automatic pistols ( C96 ) were developed by Paul Mauser.

Mauser's designs were initially more successful abroad than in Germany, and the Prussian rifle testing commission in Spandau opted for the Gewehr 88, which it had developed itself . Paul Mauser designed an improved model of this rifle on an imperial order.

Mauser's name is inseparable from the designs of the 1893 infantry rifle for Spain , the 1894 Swedish carbine and 1896 infantry rifle , with the models of the rifles for Peru , Belgium , Argentina , Brazil (1894), Chile (1895), then Costa Rica , the Dominican Republic , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , Venezuela , Mexico (1902) and Turkey . Deliveries to these countries made the Mauser name a quality term for precise weapons known worldwide.

His design of the Gewehr 98 was personally given this designation by the German Kaiser Wilhelm II on April 5, 1898. In 1901, Mauser lost his left eye due to a cartridge detonation during a shooting test of his C98 self-loading gun.

His designs of the cartridges 7.65 × 53.5 , 7 × 57 and 8 × 57 IRS are still in use today as hunting cartridges.

Mauser was from 1898 to 1903 as a member of the German Reichstag for the National Liberal Party , which appeared as the German party in the Kingdom of Württemberg . In the Reichstag he represented the constituency of Württemberg 8 ( Freudenstadt , Horb , Oberndorf , Sulz ). He had been nominated as a compromise candidate by the Conservatives , the Federation of Farmers and the National Liberals, and after his election in the Reichstag he only joined the National Liberals as an intern.

Orders and decorations

In 1912 he was awarded the Grashof Memorial Medal from the Association of German Engineers .

literature

  • Paul Gehring (1941), Wilhelm (1834–1882) and Paul Mauser (1838–1914): inventors and manufacturers of rifles and other handguns. In: Hermann Haering and Otto Hohenstatt (eds.), Schwäbische Lebensbilder , Vol. 2. Stuttgart: W. Kohlhammer, pp. 314–339.
  • Wolfgang Seel:  Mauser, Paul von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , p. 448 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Paul Mauser  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Yearbooks for the German Army and Navy, Volume 19, Bath, 1876, page 5
  2. https://www.forgottenweapons.com/mauser-c98-the-system-that-cost-paul-mauser-an-eye/ Der Spiegel , issue 25, 1975: Book market: Ruf wie Donnerhall ( memento from January 16 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Pages 118–120
  3. ^ Carl-Wilhelm Reibel: Handbook of the Reichstag elections 1890-1918. Alliances, results, candidates. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties , volume 15.) Half volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-7700-5284-4 , pp. 1228-1232.