Passion et Compassion

Private industry

Since the first months of the war, the ammunitions stocks are lowering at full speed. The trenches war that begins in the winter of 1914 and will last for 4 years, and the successive large scale offensives will increase the appetite of the armies for ordnance. The private industry in then enrolled in the war material production, and will stay so until november 1918.

Some famous companies (some of them being still alive nowadays such as AEG or Siemens) are side by side with small mechanics manufactures and the gun makers Krupp, Ehrardt and Rheinmetall.

The manufacturers markings list presented hereunder is probably not complete, only contains pictures where I have observed the markings on fuzes by myself or whose pictures have been sent by sympathetic contributors, and numerous ones are still not identified. I will gladly receive any information allowing me to complete or correct this database.

	AB :	August Bickel (Picture and identification courtesy 'Maximus')
	A.E.G. :	Allgemeine Electricitäts Gesellschaft
No picture available	A.T. :	Unidentified company
No picture available	A.W. :	Unidentified company
No picture available	B :	Bergmann Dynamos Berlin
	*B.S. :*	Unidentified company Note the mistaken mark marking : "Z.m.u.Sch.W.M." instead of "Z.s.u.m.W.M. (picture courtesy 'CK.B')
		Unidentified company
		Unidentified company (picture courtesy J-L Landréat)
	'C.H. & W.' :	Unidentified company
	C.L. :	Ludwig Loewe & Co, Berlin
		Ludwig Loewe & Co, Berlin (variant) (picture courtesy 'air339')
	*'Lion'*	Unidentified company or Ludwig Loewe & Co, Berlin (since 'loewe' means 'lion' in german) or (according to 'cmdr jf' hypothesis) MAN company, since their logo (on trucks) is still a lion nowadays
	*C.W.D. :*	Unidentified company (picture courtesy 'air339')
	*'DDr ?' :*	Unidentified company (or a variant of 'Dr', Dresden arsenal)
No picture available		Unidentified company
	Dr C. :	Unidentified company (or a variant of 'Dr', Dresden arsenal) (Picture courtesy 'air339')
	D.W.F. :	Unidentified company (or Deutsche Waffen und Munitions Fabrik variant ?)
No picture available	D.W.M. :	Deutsche Waffen und Munitions Fabrik
	E & Co :	Ehrardt & Co
	E.u.Co :	Ehrardt & Co
	Elster & Co :	Elster & Co
	E & G :	Ehrich u. Graetz, Berlin (credit Jan Vancoillie)
No picture available	E.E.C. :	Unidentified company
	E.L.:	Unidentified company (credit Jean-Luc Landréat)
	E.S. :	Unidentified company
	F.G. :	Unidentified company (picture courtesy 'Regie')
	F.M.A. :	Unidentified company (Picture courtesy 'air339')
No picture available	F.u.H. :	Unidentified company
		Gebrüder Bing, Nürnberg
	G.B.N. :	Gebrüder Bing, Nürnberg (variant)
	G.C. :	Unidentified Company
	G.G.W. :	Gelsenkirchner Gusstahl Werke Krzysztof Stecki "grenadier"
	G.M. :	Grüneberger Metallwarenfabrik (credit Jan Vancoillie) (picture courtesy J-L Landréat)
No picture available	G.& P. :	Unidentified company
No picture available		Unidentified company
No picture available	H.M.A.G. :	Hannoversche Maschinenbau Aktiongesellschaft
	H.P.	Unidentified company (picture courtesy Tim Madou)
	H.P. 6 lines variant	Unidentified company (credit Jean-Luc Landréat)
		H. Voigt
	H & W	Unidentified company
No picture available	I. :	Unidentified company
		Junghans company (still actrive as a watches factory in Scharmberg, Germany) Identification courtesy 'cmdr jf'
No picture available	Kp :	Krupp (the #1 gunmaker of the german reich)
	Kr :	Krupp (variant)
	K & S :	Unidentified company
	K S P :	Unidentified company
	L.J.W. :	Unidentified company (picture courtesy 'air339')
No picture available	M.A.N. :	Maschinen Fabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg Aktion Gesellschaft
No picture available		Maschinen Fabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg Aktion Gesellschaft (variante
No picture available	N. :	RWS, Werk Nürnberg und Stadeln (credit Jan Vancoillie)
	N.S.U. :	Neckar Sulmer Gesellschaft
	P. :	Polte (Magdeburg)
	Pl. :	Feuerwerkslaboratorium Plaue / Brandenburg /Havel (picture courtesy 'Regie' - identification by Rüdiger Adam)
No picture available	P.& S. :	Potz und Sandt (Mannheim)
	P.W. :	Unidentified company (Credit Jean-Luc Landréat)
	R. :	Unidentified company (picture courtesy 'Regie')
No picture available	R.F. :	Remscheid Fabrik
		Unidentified company
		Rheinische Metallwaren und Maschinen Fabrik the famous RheinMetall company, main competitor of Krupp as a gunmaker. The 'square in a circle' logo was the symbol of a forging process that had been invented by this company.
	Rh.M.F. :	Rheinische Metallwaren und Maschinen Fabrik (variant)
	Rh.M.M. :	Rheinische Metallwaren und Maschinen Fabrik (variant)
	R.M. :	Unidentified company (or a Rheinische Metallwaren und Maschinen Fabrik variant ?)
	R. Stock & Co :	R. Stock & Co m.b.H.
	R.W.F. :	Unidentified company
	S. & Co. :	Société inconnue (variant of R. Stock & Co ?) (picture courtesy 'Regie')
		Siemens Halske
		Siemens Martin (Picture courtesy Christophe Pacherie)
		Siemens Schuckert
	Simson :	Simson m.b.H.
No picture available	S.E. :	Unidentified company
No picture available	S.N. :	Steffens Nölle, Essen
	S.S.W.N. :	Siemens-Schuckert Werke Nürnberg (hypothesis from Jan Vancoillie)
	S.U.D. :	Unidentified company
No picture available	S.W. :	Unidentified company
No picture available	S.W.K. :	Unidentified company
	S.W.N. :	Sachsenwerk Niedersedlitz (SachsenWerk Niedersedlitz), a private company from near Dresden (credit Stefan Lugt)
	Sun symbol :	Unidentified company
	*T.B.B. :*	Unidentified company (picture courtesy 'air339')
	T.K.D. :	Unidentified company
		Unidentified company
	T.T.G. :	Unidentified company
	W.& W. :	Unidentified company (picture Jean-Luc Landréat)
	W.K. :	Unidentified company
	W.P. :	Unidentified company
	Unknown sign	Unidentified company (picture courtesy Vladimir)

No picture available	Dn :	Dantzig army arsenal (in former Great Prussia on the Baltic sea, now a Poland town named Gdansk)
	Dr :	Dresden army arsenal (Capital of the Saxony)
	J :	Ingolstadt army arsenal (in Bavaria on the Danube river, not far from Munich)
No picture available	L :	Lubenstadt army arsenal (in former Great Prussia, now a center Poland town named Lubien Kujawski)
	Sb :	Strassburg army arsenal (Alsace, that was German since 1870, and now in France)
No picture available	Sg :	Siegburg army arsenal (near Köln - Nordrhein-Westfalen)
	Sp :	Spandau army arsenal (Berlin surroundings)

WW1 GERMAN FUZES MANUFACTURING MARKINGS

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