Borchardt

[Vlim]

Hi,

As we all know, there is no authenticated image of Hugo Borchardt known. After reading Datig's Luger Story and studying a photo of Luger Jr. and Sr. at their Berlin shooting club 'Baerenzwinger', I recognized another person on the photo. This man, Gerhard Bock, wrote a manual on pistol use and shooting in 1911, followed by an update in 1920. He himself is pictured in his book, demonstrating some shooting poses.

Moreover, two other Berlin pistol shooters pose in the book and coincidentally they look very much like two other characters on the photo. This leaves one other, famous Baerenzwinger member on the photo unnamed. It's very tempting, especially since his age seems to be that of Luger sr., that this may well be our ilusive mr. Hugo Borchardt.

Tempting, at least....

From his own book "Moderne Faustfeuerwaffen", Gehard Bock:


W. Fitzkow:


E. Muncheberg: