But Fritz Walther started anew and began manufacturing in Ulm, West Germany in 1953. With his factory destroyed by World War II and Zella-Mehlis in Soviet-occupied East Germany, Walther was reduced to just a collection of designs and patents. In 1938 the German Reich awarded the contract for that replacement to Walther for the 9mm P38 with a weight of 960 g.Ī sick Polish survivor in the Hannover-Ahlem subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp receives medicine from the Red Cross, 11 April 1945įrom 1942 until 1945, the company used slave labour at the Neuengamme concentration camp, and operated its own factory at the camp. The PP models were the first mass-produced pistols with stamped parts, but the overall increase in dependability and high quality of production with lower relative manufacturing costs made them the best option to replace the P-08 Luger. This was followed in 1931 by the first of the PPKs ( Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell, or Police Pistol Detective Model). In 1929 they began to make the popular Polizeipistole (police pistols) or PP models. Its rarity has made it highly sought after on the collectors market. It used blowback rather than a locked breech and proved unsuccessful, with only around 1,000 made. The Model 6 was Walther's first attempt at a 9mm Luger pistol. Models 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 were in calibers 6.35 and 7.65. It was not until 1908 that, under the initiative of Fritz Walther, the oldest son of Carl Walther, they began to make pistols. The company originally manufactured hunting and target rifles. This small shop was established in 1886 in Zella-Mehlis, in what was then Hesse but is today Thuringia. It was the granddaughter of Gustave Wilhelm Pistor who married August Theodore Walther whose son Carl Wilhelm Freund established the factory that employed apprentice Carl Wather.
This plant was operating in 1780 and made pistols and other weapons. Pistor is the ancestor of the Walther family. The history of Walther started with the factory created by Matthias Conrad Pistor who was the chief armorer of the Kassel Armory. However, it is common for English speakers not familiar with German phonology to pronounce the name as / ˈ w ɔː l t ə r / or even / ˈ w ɔː l θ ə r /. In German, w sounds like /v/, th sounds like /t/, and a is an open front vowel similar to the u in ugly. The correct pronunciation of Walther is, similar to the English word vaulter.
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