Wilhelm Brenneke

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Wilhelm Brenneke

Wilhelm Brenneke (born March 30, 1865 in Hanover , † November 4, 1951 in West Berlin ) was a German inventor and designer of hunting rifles and ammunition . The name “Brenneke” is synonymous with shotgun barrel projectiles worldwide .

Live and act

When he was 14, Wilhelm Brenneke initially wanted to start training with the Hanoverian court gunsmith Heinrich Scherping , but he turned him away. Brenneke completed an apprenticeship as a locksmith and safe builder in his birthplace Hanover from 1879 . The following military service he did in the imperial navy and after attending a mechanical engineering school and serving in the military in Leipzig, he worked as a mail-order bookseller. Parallel to the successful mail order business, he developed the "Brenneke self-cocking safety rifle" (Brenneke safety triple) with a quadruple automatic safety device, patented in 1895, and in the same year acquired the Leipzig arms and rifle shop Richard, which he renamed the "Brenneke - rifle and bullet factory". Under the direction of Konrad Heym , he had the safety triple manufactured in a branch in Suhl until 1902 .

After acquiring a patent on alloy jacketed bullets in 1897, in 1898 he presented the Brenneke shotgun barrel, a self-developed ammunition which enabled the hunted hunted shell and big game from shotguns . Numerous new and very successful types of hunting ammunition followed at short intervals, such as the TIG (1917), the 7 × 64 Brenneke (1917) and the TUG (with patented sharp edge, 1935). He personally tested many of his developments in the leased Tornau hunting area in the Dübener Heide .

After the untimely death of his two sons Walter (1894–1917) and Wilhelm (1898–1921), the Brenneke company was run by their twin sisters Elsa and Rosa, and before Wilhelm Brenneke's death in 1951 it was completely relocated from Leipzig to West Berlin. In 1971, the heirs relocated the family company to its current location in Langenhagen near Hanover - the home of its founder.

Cartridges with Brenneke shotgun barrel FLG cal. 12/70

Hunting ammunition

Rifle ammunition

  • 8 × 72 R, 1898
  • 8 × 80 R, 1908
  • 8 × 64, 8 × 64 S, 8 × 64 RS, 1912
  • 8 × 65 R, 1914
  • 8 × 65 RS, 1914
  • 7 × 64 , 1917
  • 7 × 64 R , 1917
  • 8.1 × 66.5 R, 1920
  • 7 × 72 R, 1927
  • 9.3 × 64 , 1927
  • 7 × 64.5 Brenneke, 1937
  • 8 × 66 Brenneke, 1938
  • 9.3 × 65 R, 1938
  • 9.3 × 66 Brenneke, 1938
  • 7 × 66 Brenneke, 1938

Rifle bullets

Shotgun ammunition

  • Shotgun barrel bullet (1898)

literature

  • Olgierd Kujawski: The Phenomenon Wilhelm Brenneke. In: Wild and Dog. 1/1990, pp. 22-24.
  • Olgierd Kujawski: Wilhelm Brenneke,… types & characters. In: Hunter. 4/1990, pp. 72-74.
  • Ernst Schäfer: In memoriam Wilhelm Brenneke. In: Wild and Dog. 68th vol. (1965/66), pp. 8-11.
  • Peter Pernutz: The man who turned the shotgun into a double rifle. In memoriam Wilhelm Brenneke. In: Deutsche Jagd-Zeitung. 4/1990, pp. 116-117.
  • Wilhelm Brennecke. In: Deutsches Waffen Journal. 2/1965, pp. 6-12.
  • For the 125th birthday of Wilhelm Brenneke. In: Deutsches Waffen Journal. 4/1990, pp. 496-501.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst-Otto Pieper: Wilhelm Brenneke on his 150th birthday , article [ undated , 2015] on the page wildhueter-st-hubertus.de
  2. ↑ On the 125th birthday of Wilhelm Brenneke . In: Horst Schankliss (Ed.): German Arms Journal . tape 4/1990 . Journal-Verlag Schwend, 1990, ISSN  0341-8936 , p. 196-501 .
  3. ^ German hunting lexicon: Brenneke, Wilhelm. In: German Hunting Lexicon. German Hunting Lexicon, accessed on May 28, 2016 .
  4. ↑ 8x64 S - German Hunting Lexicon - knowledge about hunting, nature, nature conservation, dogs and the outdoors. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ 8x65 RS - German Hunting Lexicon - knowledge about hunting, nature, nature conservation, dogs and the outdoors. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Brenneke, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German inventor
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 4th 1951
Place of death West Berlin