Mr. Schmitt, an overview

[Vlim]

Hi,

During the 1920's and upto the 1950's a number of German police weapons manuals were published by Verlag Eisenschmidt in Berlin. The earliest one (first edition) I have seen was published in 1923 and is shown in Jan Still's Weimar Lugers on page 190.

I recently found a 1928 revision (nineth edition) and one of the forum members Roland/Pisto owns a copy (twentyfifth edition), published in 1951.
(see this thread: http://forum.lugerforum.com/showthre...threadid=11370 ).

All books share the same author, a Mr. Schmitt. As it seems (also from the cover of the first Edition), Mr. Schmitt was a German police officer (named as 'Polizeihauptman') and therefore the information he provided in these books should provide us with a very decent understanding of the weapons and material available to German police during the span of about 40 years, incuding the Weimar era, early nazi period and early post-war Western-German period.

I would like to advise people to keep an eye open for revisions of the book that haven't shown up yet.

This list of publications showed up on a 1947 DDR ban list. It also explains why Eisenschmidt, the publishing company moved to Frankfurt.

Schmitt, Gustav: Gewehr-Dienst. Karabiner-Dienst. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1934.
Schmitt, Gustav: Handgranaten-Dienst. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1934.
Schmitt, Gustav: Karte und Gel�¤nde. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1941.
Schmitt, Gustav: Der lMG.-Dienst. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1934.
Schmitt, Gustav: Das Maschinengewehr-Ger�¤t (MG. 08) mit allen Neuerungen. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1935.
Schmitt, Gustav: Maschinenpistole, Leuchtpistole. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1934.
Schmitt, Gustav: Pistolen-Dienst. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1934.
Schmitt, Gustav: Schie�?-Dienst. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1939.
Schmitt, Gustav: Die Schu�?waffen 98 (Kar. 98 k, b, a, Gew. 98). â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1942.
Schmitt, Gustav: Taschentafeln. â?? Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1940.

This publication showed up on an allied ban-list:
Schmitt, Gustav: Kleinkaliber-Dienst Sportmodell 1934. - Berlin: Eisenschmidt 1934.

Revisions of the "Waffentechnisches unterrichtsbuch" :
01-1923 1. edition.
02-1925 4. edition.
10-1925 5. edition.
03-1927 6. edition.
08-1927 7. edition (no revisions).
03-1928 9. edition.
1931 ?. edition.
1932 14. edition.
1940 ??. edition.
1944 ??. edition.
1951 25. edition (in reprint until 1960s, but no further revisions).

Verlag Eisenschmidt was founded in 1880 in Berlin and was wellknown for it's publication of maps. Starting in 1909 with the introduction of the large airships (the 'Zeppelins'), Eisenschmidt entered the aircraft navigation map business, something they still do. The company can be visited at www.eisenschmidt.de .

[Tundra]

I ran a Google search and came up with some interesting hits:
including this 1940 manual: http://usmbooks.com/98k_manual.html