The Swiss Federal Parliament adopted the Borchardt -Luger as their ordnance weapon on April 30, 1900. Once again the Borchardt-Luger came in first.Īt the request of the “Revue Military Suisse” twenty additional Borchardt-Lugers with minor modifications were provided by DWM for testing by military schools and shooting clubs between 18 (1:64). Similar vigorous testing with George Luger personally firing the Borchardt-Luger pistol (1:57). First place won by a healthy margin was the Borchardt-Luger (1:51).įinal tests of the Borchardt-Luger and Mannlicher pistols were conducted on May 1-2, 1899. The competition was between Borchardt-Luger, Roth, Mannlicher, Bergmann and Mauser. Five automatic pistols were simultaneously tested. These were vigorous tests very comparable to modern US and British evaluations (1:48-49). George Luger represented DWM in the Swiss tests conducted on the Borchardt-Luger in 7.65 Luger caliber on November 23-26, 1898 (1:46-47). In 1897 the Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken (DWM) introduced Switzerland to the BorchardtLuger. This narrative is an introduction into more details of the Swiss Parabellum development. It seems like everyone familiar with the Luger knows that the Swiss were the first to adopt them. This period witnessed the development of many attempts to produce a reliable semi automatic pistol. More modern investigators have added and expanded to the story.Īt the end of the 19th century, world governments were modernizing their military units. Unfortunately there have been some early mistakes of timing and interpretations which have now been corrected.
These gentlemen have provided us all a basis to build our appreciation of these historic technical achievements. I specifically refer to Fred Datig, Harry Jones and John Walters. Given the times and methods of communication their results should be applauded. As collectors we should owe a sense of gratitude to the early investigators and authors that documented their findings relating the development of the Pistole Parabellum.
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