Waffenamt (redirect from Heereswaffenamt)
1919 as Reichwaffenamt (RWA), and 5 May 1922 the name was changed to Heereswaffenamt (HWA). The task of overseeing Germany's gigantic pre-World War II rearmament...
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submachine gun produced by Erma Werke in 1943. It was rejected by the Heereswaffenamt. The EMP 44 fires from an open bolt. The caliber is 9×19mm Parabellum...
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second effort under the administrative purview of the Wehrmacht's Heereswaffenamt began on September 1, 1939, the day of the invasion of Poland. The...
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co-developed with Gustav Genschow and Co. (GECO) starting in 1934, under a Heereswaffenamt contract. The M 35 was a gas-operated design, reminiscent of an earlier...
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JetTrain. The Third Reich Wehrmacht Heer's development division, the Heereswaffenamt (Army Ordnance Board), studied a number of gas turbine engine designs...
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1940, a prototype rifle from Haenel and Walther was tested by the Heereswaffenamt at Kummersdorf. It had multiple jams, several barrels bulged, and one...
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aircraft type numbers allocated by an institution under the direction of Heereswaffenamt (before May 1933) and the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) between 1933 and...
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Inspection (Inspektion für Waffen und Gerät), which later became the Heereswaffenamt (HWA, Army Ordnance Office). From 1919 to 1923, Becker studied chemistry...
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wooden body and a steel folding stock. In January 1938, the German Heereswaffenamt requested a lightweight, compact, rapid firing 9mm weapon for paratroopers...
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Germany's Panther tank. The German Army's development division, the Heereswaffenamt (Army Ordnance Board), studied a number of gas turbine engines for...
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five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office (Heereswaffenamt).: 85 Several German guided missiles and rockets of World War II were...
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Beschreibung, 28.1.1944. Berlin. D97/1+ Gerätliste, Oberkommando des Heeres Heereswaffenamt, s.45, Berlin 1.7.43 "Gerätliste s.45". Archived from the original...
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Beschreibung, 28.1.1944. Berlin. D97/1+ Gerätliste, Oberkommando des Heeres Heereswaffenamt, s.45, Berlin 1.7.43 YouTube video by Mark Felton Productions - https://www...
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were still being made. According to the personal notes of Horn, the Heereswaffenamt requirements for this gun were as follows: it had to use the blowback...
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taken out of storage during times of strife. In February 1934, the Heereswaffenamt (Army Weapons Agency) ordered the adoption of a new military rifle...
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Beschreibung, 28.1.1944. Berlin. D97/1+ Gerätliste, Oberkommando des Heeres Heereswaffenamt, s.45, Berlin 1.7.43 "Gerätliste s.45". Archived from the original...
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the university's physical chemistry department and advisor to the Heereswaffenamt (HWA, Army Ordnance Office) on explosives. Harteck and his teaching...
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diesel, 80 PS (79 hp) developed by MAN, Henschel, and Humboldt-Deutz * HeeresWaffenamt Alternative engine: Stoewer "R 180W" 4-cyl. petrol 42–43 PS (41–42 hp)...
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p. 143. Барятинский 2014, p. 125. "Panzer II Luchs". Panzerfabrik. Heereswaffenamt. Gerätliste. Berlin: Oberkommando des Heeres, 1943. 413 p. D 97/1+...
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36 and in 1938 submitted a prototype to answer a request from the Heereswaffenamt (Army Weapons Office) for a new submachine gun, which was adopted as...
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self-propelled anti-tank gun project. In 1937 the German Army Ordnance Office (Heereswaffenamt) had ordered the design of 30-tonne tanks from Henschel, MAN SE, and...
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major increase in cost. On 1 June 1927, the Army Ordnance Office (Heereswaffenamt) issued Secret Command Matter No. 59/27, calling for the development...
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(Tschechische Gewehr Fabrik - German for Czech Rifle Factory) by the German Heereswaffenamt.[citation needed] Because of wartime requirements for combat weapons...
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Schrader, chemist Otto Ambros, chemist Gerhard Ritter [de], and from Heereswaffenamt Hans-Jürgen von der Linde. In mid-1939, the formula for the agent was...
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formed on 1 September 1939, the day World War II began in Europe. The Heereswaffenamt (HWA, Army Ordnance Office) had squeezed the Reichsforschungsrat (RFR...
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submachine guns such as the MP 40. It has been suggested, however, that the Heereswaffenamt was responsible for the name Sturmgewehr, and Hitler had no input besides...
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Gerätebeschreibung der 7,5cm Panzerjägerkanone 97/38 (7,5cm Pak 97/38) - OKH / Heereswaffenamt, Berlin 1. Juli 1942 (antitank gun description) "Gerätliste s.44"....
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Panzerjägerkanone 40.- Heft 1: Beschreibung, Bedienung und Behandlung. — OKH / Heereswaffenamt, Berlin 1.Apr.1942. H.Dv. 119/324 – Schußtafel für die 7,5 cm Kampfwagenkanone...
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recognized that the motorised Flak was insufficiently armoured. The German Heereswaffenamt decided to combine light anti-aircraft guns with tank chassis. The...
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Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim (1896–1961) Karl Becker (1879–1940), Heereswaffenamt Hans Behlendorff (1889–1961) Wilhelm Berlin (1889–1987) Friedrich von...
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