Siegfried F. Huebner
Siegfried F. Hübner (* 1923 near Bodenbach , Czechoslovakia ; † March 15, 2008 ) was a German firearms expert and author . He is considered to be the founder of combat shooting in Europe.
Life
Hübner first studied electrical engineering and became an acoustician and HF engineer in this field after the end of the war . During the Second World War he served as a corporal in the Air Force . After the war and almost four years in France , he returned to Germany and worked in VHF radio and low-frequency acoustics and later in television technology for a radio company. Through his professional activity in acoustics, he came into contact with firearms again. In 1966 he wrote his first article “The Muzzle Bang” for the German Arms Journal . This article was followed by well over 100 further articles in German and international journals, including in the Deutsches Waffen-Journal , Deutsche Polizei , Der Kriminalist , Waffen-Revue , Internationaler Waffen-Spiegel , IWS France and highly regarded articles in the renowned American magazine Guns & Ammo . His articles all dealt with weapons technology, soundproofing, holsters, ballistics, self-protection, self-defense, snipers, and shooting training.
Hübner was a member and expert of the American Pistol Institute (API), also a member and expert of the South West Combat Pistol League (SWCPL) founded by Colonel Jeff Cooper , a member of the International Police Association (IPA) and as a weapons technology advisor to the Police Union (GdP) ) in Baden-Württemberg constantly strives to ensure that the police receive the best possible weapons and training. In the USA he was known as one of the few “shooting writers” who not only write a lot, but who can actually shoot and hit. He was a permanent employee of the German Arms Journal and a consultant for other specialist journals.
Weapons technology
In the field of weapon technology , Hübner held six patents and two more in electroacoustics . In various arms factories and with manufacturers, Huebner has helped with the development of new weapons, holsters and ammunition ; Among other things, he was also involved in the development of the Glock pistols . The “Hübner special holsters” developed by him were manufactured by the Austrian Sickinger GmbH . In addition, Hübner has carried out extensive investigations at Mauser , Heckler & Koch and at the Bundeswehr test center .
His first book was published in 1967 under the title The first hit counts . It dealt with handguns , ammunition and shooting techniques. After numerous visits and stays in the USA , during which he received practical knowledge and further combat shooting training from Thell Reed , Chuck Taylor , Ray Chapman , Rex Applegate , Jack Weaver , Bill Jordan (USA) and Jim Cirillo , as well as his own Using practical experience in the German Air Force, he wrote the book Combat Shooting Technology , which became the basic manual for the then new shooting training for the German police .
Combat shooting
Hübner obtained his knowledge of shooting and weapon techniques, self-protection and self-defense directly from sources and hot spots at home and abroad. He trained with the FBI in Quantico and Washington , the Smith & Wesson Police Academy in Springfield , the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), the Police Academy and Sheriffs Department of Los Angeles , the SWAT teams in Atlanta , Miami , New Mexico and Denver , the New York Police Academy, the Texas Rangers in Austin , El Paso , Laredo , Lobock and San Antonio , with the Mexican Police at the Instituto Policia in Mexico City and in Puebla . He also learned new training methods and shooting techniques from the police in Pretoria and Salisbury in what was then Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe ).
In 1970 Huebner got to know the new combat shooting technique with the Weaver Stance from the American Colonel Jeff Cooper, one of the best shooting instructors in the USA, at his Gunsite Training Center near Paulden , and brought it to Europe after he had been trained in combat shooting by Cooper . On his long international travels and long stays abroad he learned from the best shooters in Mexico, u. a. with the Mexican FBI and the bodyguard in Mexico City, and in the countries of South America and South Africa, other shooting techniques unknown to us (e.g. the Yaqui hip shot and the Santiago Germanuss technique ). He has been to Mexico several times since 1972 to learn from the best shooting instructors, Commandante Luquin and Coronel Quinn Y Gonzales . In addition to the aforementioned Yaqui shooting technique, the Mexican Defense Parcours, Mexican combat shooting. In Argentina he attended the Academia de Policia in Buenos Aires and in Brazil the Police Academy in Rio de Janeiro . This was published in his next two books, Defense Shooting Technique and Survival Shooting . Later came the new Cirillo combat shooting technique from Jim Cirillo and the experience of Colonel Rex Applegate from the USA.
In Europe, for example, Hübner was in the police shooting school of Raymond Sasia, the director of the French Police National in Paris (who attended the FBI academy in Quantico, Virginia in 1962 and had brought FBI shooting technology to Europe), in the police school and the shooting center in Egedem in Belgium , at the canton police in Zurich and in Bern , the security office in Vienna and Scotland Yard in London , as well as at many police and border police training centers in Germany, e.g. B. at the GSG 9 in Sankt Augustin , the SEK Baden-Württemberg in Göppingen and the LKA in Stuttgart . While he was still being trained as a sniper by Colonel Conway and Colonel Joast in the Austrian Armed Forces and was training snipers for the army and police himself, he wrote the book Sniper Shooting Technique .
Through his many trips, Hübner gained extensive knowledge of international shooting training for police and armies in the western world, and was the first German expert with this international experience.
Activity as a trainer
Hübner passed on his knowledge in special courses in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to gun license holders and police officers in combat shooting courses . In his CCC combat shooting courses, Hübner imparted his knowledge as a combat shooting instructor to the police and special forces as well as to the armies in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Spain , France , Italy and other countries. He also held other CCC combat shooting courses in Peru , Mexico , South Africa and other southern countries. He wrote a total of over 20 books, of which the book Survival Shooting and others have also been translated into French, English, Italian and Spanish.
Publications
- The first hit counts
- Combat shooting technique
- Defense shooting technique
- Weapons technology
- The international police combat course
- Survival shooting
- Defenca
- Silencers For Hand Firearms
- Self-protection from crime
- Security program
- Radical Combat Shooting Techniques Yesterday and Today . 1998, ISBN 978-3-923995-14-1
- Sniper shooting techniques . 1999, ISBN 3-923995-16-4
- Self-protection technique . 2001, ISBN 3-923995-20-2
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huebner, Siegfried F. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German firearms expert and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Bodenbach , Czechoslovakia |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 15, 2008 |