Steyr Mannlicher
| Steyr Mannlicher GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | April 16, 1864 |
| Seat |
Kleinraming , St. Peter in der Au , Austria
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| management | Michael Engesser (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 150 |
| Branch | weapons |
| Website | www.steyr-arms.com/de |
The Steyr Mannlicher GmbH is an Austrian firearms manufacturer that has existed since the 1864th
history
The company goes back to the Österreichische Waffenfabriks-Gesellschaft (ÖWG); Predecessor company of Steyr-Werke , which was merged into Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in 1934 . The engineer Ferdinand von Mannlicher played a major role in the success of the Austrian Arms Factory, as he was involved in the development of a very successful repeating rifle ( Mannlicher system ). After the death of the ÖWG founder Josef Werndl , Mannlicher took over the company, which got his name after a while.
Shortly before the First World War , Steyr-Mannlicher expanded its capacities and operated some of the largest production and development facilities for handguns in the world. In 1914 the output was already 4,000 pieces per day; also were military bicycles and aircraft engines manufactured. The workforce had grown to over 15,000. After the First World War, weapons production came to a standstill for the time being, but was resumed a short time later in cooperation with the Swiss cartridge factory Solothurn AG .
After Austria's annexation in 1938, the factories were incorporated into the Hermann Göring Reichswerke and from then on produced weapons for the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS . In addition to around 30,000 regular employees, prisoners from the Steyr-Münichholz subcamp (a satellite camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp ) were also used in production. After the Second World War , weapons production had to be stopped again. In consultation with the US High Commissioner, however, the production of hunting weapons could be resumed from 1950. With the re-establishment of the Austrian Armed Forces in 1955, military weapons were also produced again.
Mannlicher is best known for his hunting rifles such as the Mannlicher-Schönauer . Even today, the Steyr-Mannlicher hunting weapons program and that for sporting weapons are known as high quality products. Naturally from the beginning the company produced large numbers of military weapons such as B. the M95 . Modern weapons include the Steyr AUG , the Steyr Elite or the M-A1 and S-A1 utility pistols .
The export of 800 sniper rifles of the type Steyr HS .50 in Iran prompted the United States , today again reversed arms embargo to be imposed on the company. In 2007, the US armed forces claimed to have found 100 sniper rifles of said type in insurgents in Iraq. The company denied the allegations and spoke of possible fakes. Research supports this version.
See also
literature
- Friedrich Aigner, Reisinger Reinolf; Steyr Mannlicher GmbH (ed.): The history of the weapons factory Steyr Mannlicher. Retz 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steyr-Münichholz concentration camp . In: Mauthausen-Komitee Steyr, accessed on March 17, 2012.
- ^ Perz Bertrand: Steyr-Münichholz. A concentration camp of Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG In: Yearbook of the Documentation Archive of Austrian Resistance 1989, pp. 52-61.
- ↑ Iraqi terrorists kill with Austrian weapons . In: 20 Minuten , February 13, 2007, accessed March 1, 2015.
- ↑ Alexander U. Mathé: But no Austro weapons in Iraq . In: Wiener Zeitung , March 29, 2007, accessed on November 6, 2013.