Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose (31 July 1867 – 1936) was a German (originally

Prussia Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an em ...

n) firearm designer who is best known for designing a blowback-operated machine gun.

Early life

Schwarzlose was born near

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, and served as an artilleryman and armorer in the Austro-Hungarian army. He graduated from the National Ordnance College and designed his first pistol in 1892, although it never saw production. In the 1890s, he lived and worked in

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and designed the machine gun, he later got famous for. The MG was produced - mainly for the Austrian air forces - by the

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. In 1897, he opened an arms factory in Berlin which he operated until 1919 when it was shut down by the Allied Disarmament Commission. After the closing of his factory he worked as a firearms consultant until his death in 1936.

Designs

* Schwarzlose MG M.07/12 machine gun (for Austria-Hungary) *

Schwarzlose Model 1898 The Schwarzlose Model 1898 was a full-size, locked-breech, rotary-bolt, semi-automatic pistol invented by Prussian firearm designer Andreas Wilhelm Schwarzlose. It was chambered for cartridges such as the 7.65×25mm Borchardt and 7.63×25mm Mause ...

semi-automatic pistol *

Schwarzlose Model 1908 The Schwarzlose Model 1908 was a semi-automatic pistol, designed by Andreas Schwarzlose, released in 1908 in the German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an ...

semi-automatic pistol

References

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