People who worked there

Lonnie Zimmerman · 12-19-2001, 12:02 AM

There must be thousand of Germans still alive that worked for Mauser, Walther, Spreewerk, etc, that could answer a lot of the questions we have about the guns they made. Has anyone in Germany ever tried to track some of them down?

Seems like a easy task for someone there. My Stepdad worked in the shipyards during WW11 and he remembers a whole lot about it and can talk for hours!

Lonnie

12-19-2001, 12:52 AM

Jim Cate from NAPACA who recently published some excellent books on the Sauer & Sohn pistols, attempted to track down some of their workers without much success.

lugerholsterrepair · 12-19-2001, 12:50 PM

Lonnie, You have to remember that anyone who worked there in any capacity to know something would have had to be in their thirty's or so. Think about the German system of apprenticeship, in those days you did not become a working member untill years on the job doing menial tasks. So anyone likely to have been in a position to know enough to pass on intelligently would now be a minimum of say, 82 years old. Now realistically most of the people who ran German industry were in their fourty's or fifties at the time. Do the math. These people are long gone. Records may be the only salvation and many of those are in the same boat. Perhaps some records may come out of the former Soviet Union. They are the ones who Dynamited the Krieghoff factory. Knowing the Soviets from their history it is quite likely they took some of the technology sources back for their use. Jerry Burney

12-19-2001, 12:02 AM	#1
Lonnie Zimmerman User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 523 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	People who worked there There must be thousand of Germans still alive that worked for Mauser, Walther, Spreewerk, etc, that could answer a lot of the questions we have about the guns they made. Has anyone in Germany ever tried to track some of them down? Seems like a easy task for someone there. My Stepdad worked in the shipyards during WW11 and he remembers a whole lot about it and can talk for hours! Lonnie

12-19-2001, 12:52 AM	#2
tom h Guest Posts: n/a	Re: People who worked there Jim Cate from NAPACA who recently published some excellent books on the Sauer & Sohn pistols, attempted to track down some of their workers without much success.

12-19-2001, 12:50 PM	#3
lugerholsterrepair Moderator Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Arizona/Colorado Posts: 7,761 Thanks: 4,852 Thanked 3,101 Times in 1,427 Posts	Re: People who worked there Lonnie, You have to remember that anyone who worked there in any capacity to know something would have had to be in their thirty's or so. Think about the German system of apprenticeship, in those days you did not become a working member untill years on the job doing menial tasks. So anyone likely to have been in a position to know enough to pass on intelligently would now be a minimum of say, 82 years old. Now realistically most of the people who ran German industry were in their fourty's or fifties at the time. Do the math. These people are long gone. Records may be the only salvation and many of those are in the same boat. Perhaps some records may come out of the former Soviet Union. They are the ones who Dynamited the Krieghoff factory. Knowing the Soviets from their history it is quite likely they took some of the technology sources back for their use. Jerry Burney