Udo Anschütz rifle factory

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The Udo Anschütz rifle factory (UAZ); also called Gewehrfabrik Udo Anschütz or Anschütz Gewehrfabrik , was a company founded around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries for the manufacture of rifles and other handguns such as target pistols . The factory was based in Zella-Mehlis at Bahnhofstrasse 56 .

history

In the library of the German Historical Museum there is now an "approx. 1900 "printed, 40-page illustrated sales catalog with products from the" Udo Anschütz rifle factory. "The company gained international renown. Among the outstanding pieces of this kind is one of a created in cooperation with other producers octagonal barrels of walnut solid wood, which also the artist's signature H. Scherping bears the brand of in Hannover -based court - gunsmith Henry Scherping .

A target pistol manufactured by Udo Anschütz in 1928 in Zella-Mehlis, district of Zella, based on the Luna system by Ernst Friedrich Büchel, also based in Zella-Mehlis, was personally referred to by Udo Anschütz as a “championship pistol”. One copy was donated to the Schützenmuseum at Callenberg Castle near Coburg on November 18, 2011 by Robert Sheren from St. Johns, MI, USA on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the founding of the German Shooting Federation .

Ida, daughter of Udo Anschütz, married Franz Merkel, the son of Albert Oskar Merkel from the family of the arms manufacturers Merkel brothers in Suhl .

Fonts

  • Udo Anschütz Gewehrfabrik , illustrated sales catalog, 40 pages, publisher [Zella St. Bl.], [Approx. 1900]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Compare the information on the illustrated sales catalog from around 1900 in the WorldCat bibliographic database
  2. ↑ . O V. : museums Zella-Mehlis / Zella-Mehlis and weapons. Weapons companies on the zella-mehlis.de page [ undated ], last accessed on August 9, 2019
  3. ↑ Compare the information in the catalog of the German National Library
  4. ↑ a b o. V .: News and information / 150 years of the Deutscher Schützenbund on the page jga.anschuetz-sport.com [ undated ], last accessed on August 9, 2019
  5. ↑ a b Hans-Jürgen Fritze : Merkel Brothers. The history of a Suhl weapons factory and its people , 1st edition, Suhl: Arfmann, 1999, ISBN 978-3-9804573-6-1 and ISBN 3-9804573-6-2 , p. 15; Preview over google books
  6. ↑ Guns of the World (in English), Random House Value Publishing, Dec. 12, 1988, p. 89; Preview over google books
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Glage: Gunsmith and Rustmeister in Hanover , in ders .: Die Büchsenmacherkunst in Hanover , accompanying document to the exhibition in the Historical Museum on the Hohen Ufer from December 10, 1978 to January 21, 1979 in Hanover, Langenhagen: Hartwig Popp KG, p. 25 -28; here: p. 27

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