Some information has been mined on Ludwig Schiwy, his contribution to WWII per a safety issue on the P08 and how his shop became a target for Allied Forces. We think of the mechanics as being purely a Firearms Merchants, or @ least I do, & they have this flock of mechanics that do the finishing work on platforms that were sourced from gunmaking centres like Suhl, where the mechanics there did all the >>Heavy Lifting<<. You know, like that Used Car Salesman, that hocked everything, & everybody, within his reach, mortgaged to the hilt & just short of the moon to get a bona fide Dealership. He walks around trying to get a bite chewing on a 50 cent a copy Fumas that is pretty much Prince Albert in a Can rolled in a Brown Paper Bag by some Kid in Ybor City, Florida. But in actuality many like Ludwig Schiwy were on the cutting edge of technology, always forward thinking, especially regarding Safety. They were superb shots, perfecting their craft whilst hob-knobbing with the Shooters Elite and selling their wares.

By the late 1920s, the Prussian Police discovered that their beloved P08 had some serious safety issues being that if a cartridge were inadvertently left in the chamber that during disassembly, an ignition was highly probable. The Prussian Police demanded that two additional safety devices be added for the maximum safety. The solution was a Magazine Safety by Carl Walther and the needed disassembly safety was the Brain Child of none other than Berlin's Ludwig Schiwy, under DRP 501267, June 19th, 1929 „Schiwy-Sicherung“. By a decree of 30th August, 1933, both P08 Safeties were introduced for the Police P08 Pistols. Now the addition of these new P08 safeties were not by manufactures but by the Police Armouries.

Bavaria Police thought they knew more about P08s than anyone, so the fought the addition saying the installation would compromise the integrity of the sideplate.

The novel safety advance of „Schiwy-Sicherung“ by Ludwig Schiwy was used on P08s up thru 1942 and even Mauser's production modell P08 had the slot for the „Schiwy-Sicherung“ Spring. Schiwy's Berlin Factory, »Gewehrfabrik Vandrey«, was more than likely bombed due to its contribution to the War Effort.

I realize this is a Pistol advancement, but it starts to paint a clearer picture of Ludwig Schiwy and the contributions by he & other Firearms Merchants to the Weapons World.


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