[mrerick]

Both DWM and Mauser were owned by a parent "combination" company Ludwig Loewe and Co.

The decision was made by management to move the Luger manufacturing from Berlin Charlottenberg to Mauser's Oberndorf am Neckar facility in about 1929. The move, including August Weiss the manager of Luger manufacturing, was accomplished starting in 1930.

This involved moving supplies, parts in progress, finished parts, tooling, gauges and key staff to Oberndorf. An inventory of the train that everything shipped on was documented by Weiss at the time.

I suspect that it was an expedient move to where there was more available space and where the Allied commission had fewer prying eyes concerned with enforcing the treaties signed at the end of WW-I. Mauser had already been able to ship a number of otherwise prohibited C-96 handguns because of lax enforcement and ambiguous documentation.

In any case, after the demise of the Weimar government in 1933, Mauser began producing the first of the "K" dated Lugers.