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Gun engineer who worked for Mauser during World War 2. After the war he designed the CETME battle rifle for Spain, which was later modified for Germany as the Heckler & Koch G3. Mauser is the common name of German arms manufacturer Mauser-Werke Oberndorf Waffensysteme GmbH, as well as the line of bolt action rifles they built for the German armed forces. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atomic bomb. ... The name CETME is an acronym for Centro de Estudios Técnicos de Materiales Especiales, a Spanish government design and development establishment. ... The G3 is an automatic self-loading rifle manufactured by Heckler & Koch and adopted as the standard service rifle by the Bundeswehr in 1959. ...


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Ludwig, Otto - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Ludwig, Otto (124 words)
Ludwig, Otto - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Ludwig, Otto
Ludwig's best-remembered works, however, are two tales, Die Heiterthei (1853) and, especially, Zwischen Himmel und Erde (1856, tr.
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Heckler & Koch G3 (821 words)
Heckler and Koch G3 Heckler and Koch G3 Das Gewehr G3 blickt auf eine lange Entwicklungszeit zurück, denn in Grundzügen war bereits 1945 ein Vorgängermodell von den Mauserwerken entwickelt worden.
Der neuartige, beweglich abgestützte Rollenverschluss, den das G3 mit der MP5 und der HandK P9s teilt, wurde damals von dem Ingenieur Ludwig Vorgrimmler entwickelt.
Nachdem Deutschland besiegt war, konnte Vorgrimmler mit Duldung der französischen Behörden, in deren Besatzungszone damals Oberndorf lag, als Angestellter der Firma Manurhin tätig sein.
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