10 Facts About Paul Mauser

Paul Mauser's father was originally a shoemaker and then made leather scabbards for the Royal Rifle Factory in Oberndorf.

Paul Mauser developed various firearms with his brother, and later he founded the company Gebr Mauser with him, which finally took over from the royal manufacture.

Together with his brother Wilhelm Mauser, Peter Paul Mauser designed the Mauser Model 1871 rifle, the first of a successful line of Mauser rifles and pistols.

Besides rifles, Paul Mauser developed handguns, with the first Mauser designed handgun being the Mauser C78 revolver.

In 1896, Paul Mauser would develop the C96 pistol, which was one of the first semi-automatic pistols in history.

Paul Mauser designed an improved model of this rifle for the Imperial Order.

The name of Paul Mauser is inseparable from the construction of the 1893 infantry rifle for Spain, 1894 carbine and 1896 infantry rifle for Sweden, with model rifles for Peru, Belgium, Argentina, the Brazil, Chile, then Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Mexico, Uruguay and Turkey.

Paul Mauser lost his left eye in 1901 as a result of a cartridge explosion during a test firing of the self-loading C98.

Paul Mauser was a member of the German Reichstag for the National Liberal Party from 1898 to 1903, a party that appeared in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg as a German party.

Paul Mauser was nominated as a candidate thanks to an alliance of the Conservatives, the Farmers' Federation, and the National Liberals and after his election to the Reichstag he joined the Group of National Liberals as a guest.