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destroyed the company's entire inventory of weapons, running them over with trucks, and dumped all its ammunition in Switzerland. (The ammunition was later recovered.) Banned from arms production, the company produced saw blades until 1952, when it was allowed to produce arms again. The company
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Alfred’s son, Fritz (born 1903), was likewise apprenticed to Schmidt & Habermann between 1917 and 1920, becoming a master gunsmith in 1933. Ten years earlier in 1923 Alfred Ziegenhahn broke his ties with Schmidt & Habermann and started up on his own, Fritz joining him.
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Ziegenhahn & Diem was renamed Ziegenhahn & Sohn oHG in 1993, then subsequently renamed Ziegenhahn & Sohn Jagdwaffen e.K. in 2012.
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started in 1911, at which time the combination 'Ziegenhahn-Diem' led to the name 'Zi-Di'.
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mountain range. In 1889 he was apprenticed to Messrs. Schmidt & Habermann in
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Alfred Ziegenhahn, founder of the firm, was born in 1875 in the town of
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One of their first large contracts was the conversion of 30,000
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from 7.65mm to 9mm for the German Reichswehr Army of the
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until 1981, when it resumed production of long arms.
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