Luger pistol producers

Produttori pistola Luger

Erfurt Lugers - Historic details

Markings found on the Erfurt Lugers

- Three types of crown

- A host of various control stamps

- The Crowned RC, standing for "Revisions Commission"

An Erfurt Luger back from East Germany

The Royal Spandau Arsenal

The Vickers Lugers

The Simson Lugers

- The firm SIMSON & Co, Waffenfabrik , Suhl, Thuringia

- Simson acquired the ERFURT arsenal machinery

- The rework of the pistols still available in remaining inventories

- Simson Lugers were very similar to ERFURT's

- The Simson markings

- A total Luger production estimated at around 25,000 pistols

- The "Simson & Co" marking replaced by a single "S"

- In 1934, the firm was dismantled by the Nazis

Krieghoff Lugers - Historic details

- In 1886, Ludwig Krieghoff founded a sporting guns factory

- Ludwig had two sons named Ludwig Jr. and Heinrich

- The "HEINRICH KRIEGHOFF WAFFENFABRIK"

- Among its military oriented projects was a semi-automatic rifle

- The H. Krieghoff company commercialized DWM Lugers

- The rear face of the frame struck "KRIEGHOFF SUHL"

- An order of 10,000 Luger pistols for the "Luftwaffe"

- Luger production means were tooled by the firm's engineers

- Only Krieghoff Lugers bear "Luftwaffe" acceptance markings

- A small quantity of Lugers sold on the commercial market

- Today the firm KRIEGHOFF is based at ULM

Krieghoff Lugers - Military production

- It only represents a total of some 13,825 pieces

- The "G" and "S" chamber codes

- Military production figures detailed by serial ranges

- The original contract of 10,000 pieces

- The 1940 production

- The complementary 1940 - 1944 production

- The last delivery of 1944 - 45

Krieghoff Lugers - Commercial production

- A capital "P" prefix letter along with the serial number

- Commercial production figures detailed by serial ranges

- Production figures detailed by serial ranges

- The first group, from P1 to P999

- The second group includes some fifty pistols

- The last group begins with serial number P1060 until P1280

- When the Krieghoff's plant was "liberated" by the US troops

- The Krieghoff made Lugers are easily identified

- A "fzs" code was given to Krieghoff

Krieghoff Military Production Markings

- The inspectors were accredited by the "Luftwaffe"

- The inspection process covered two stages

- The problem of incorrect headspace

- A four or five pointed star rejection mark

- Aside from the "Luftwaffe" acceptance markings

- The still mysterious "Kü" Lugers

- The LA or ZA or LZA marking

Mauser - Historic details

- The Mauser legacy began in the modest circumstances

- The brothers, Paul and Wilhelm Mauser

- Their rifle officially adopted as the "Infanteriegewehr Modell 1871"

- The Mauser brothers founded their first factory, in 1872

- Around 1875, the Mauser company began to develop a revolver

- The semi-automatic pistol had appeared on the scene

- The pistol was called the "C96"

- The 1907-1914 era : A growing interest for small caliber pistols

- On May 30, 1922, the company's name was changed

- In 1932, a new model, sometimes called the "712", was launched

- In 1937, a new model appeared : The Hsc

Mauser Lugers - Commercial production

- During the years 1930 through 1934

- The serial suffix letters : "s"," t" and "u"

- An order by the firm A. F. Stoeger, of New York

- Stoeger sole agent for DWM's after Hans Tauscher had left

- The Jewish firm "ELECTRIC COMPANY OF ISRAEL"

- The major part of the production delivered to German Police

- Dates codes like "K"(1934), "G" (1935)

- Commercial production figures by serial ranges and customers

Mauser Lugers - Commercial Foreign Contracts

- The Portuguese Lugers

- The Latvian Lugers

- The Dutch Lugers

- The Siamese Lugers

- The Swedish Lugers

- The Turkish Lugers

- The Persian Lugers

- Commercial Lugers 1934/06

Mauser Military Lugers

- Military production figures by serial ranges and markings

- The Lugers S/42 (K)

- The Lugers S/42 (G)

- The Lugers S/42 (1936 - 1939)

- The Lugers 42 (1939-1940)

- The last variations "byf" 41 and 42