Sovereignty, it wasn't until May 1955 that West Germany was recognized as an independent country and the While West Germany was formed in 1949 and the Bonn Convention in 1952 essentially granted West Germany national Merkel responded they have no records or knowledge of the work or history of ERMA Werke. The ERMA Werke nameĬeased to exist in 1998. As of 2007 Suhler und Sportwaffen is a division of Merkel. 1997.Įrma was taken over by Suhler und Sportwaffen of Suhl (a division of Steyr-Mannlicher) in 1998, well after the Was re-established in 1949 as ERMA-Werke, and moved to its new facility in Dachau outside Munich in 1952.ĮRMA became a subsidiary of Lear Siegler Inc.
In Thuringia relocated, without their equipment, to the American Occupation Zone. The owners of several of the manufacturing facilities The entire Thuringen region was within the Russian Occupation Zone. The facilities still intact were taken over by the military of the Allied Occupation Zone the company found itself in. With the end of WWII in May 1945 Allied Forces ordered the closure of all German weapon manufacturing facilities. was established in 1922 by Berthold Geipel.ĭuring WWII Erfurter Maschinenfabrik was best known for its production of the MP40 Machine Pistol, though they The cities of SuhlĪnd Zella-Mehlis have been home to manufacturers Merkel, Haenel, Walther, and Anschutz, to name a few. The Thuringen region of Germany has a long tradition in weapons manufacturing. RuthĬonfirms that ERMA manufactured replacement parts and fitted them to the carbines andĮventually manufactured entire M1 carbines. Repair the weapons used by the German army (Bundeswehr), including the M1 carbine. Indicates ERMA received a contract from the German government to service and In War Baby Comes Home (see Books) the author Larry Ruth Many different sources have indicated from first hand knowledge that ERMA Werke ofĭachau, Bavaria, Germany serviced, and built parts for, the M1 carbines used by During the same period MAP provided West Germany The records do not distinguish which weapons the parts were for. The records of the United States Military Assistance Program (MAP) indicate that between October 1950 and the end of 1963 West Germany received Office of Military Government ensured West German agencies received the parts they needed for their M1 carbines. Parts for the M1 carbines used by Germanyįrom March 1946 through May 1949 the U.S.
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