The PP models were the first mass-produced pistols with stamped parts, but the overall increase in dependability and high quality of production with lower relative manufacturing costs made them the best option to replace the P-08 Luger. This was followed in 1931 by the first of the PPKs ( Polizeipistole Kriminalmodell, or Police Pistol Detective Model). In 1929 they began to make the popular Walther PP Polizeipistole (police pistol) models. Its rarity has made it highly sought after on the collectors market.
It used blowback rather than a locked breech and proved unsuccessful, with only around 1,000 made. The Model 6 was Walther's first attempt at a 9mm Luger pistol. Models 1 to 5 and 7 to 9 were in calibers. It was not until 1908 that, under the initiative of Fritz Walther, the oldest son of Carl Walther, they began to make pistols. Then in 1888, he married Minna Georgine Pickert, daughter of Christian Friedrich Pickert, from the well-established revolver manufacturer "Arminius Waffenwerk", in the same town. The company originally manufactured hunting and target rifles. This small shop was established in 1886 in Zella-Mehlis, in what is today Thuringia. It was the granddaughter of Gustave Wilhelm Pistor who married August Theodore Walther whose son Carl Wilhelm Freund established the factory that employed apprentice Carl Walther.
This plant was operating in 1780 and made pistols and other weapons. Pistor is the ancestor of the Walther family. The history of Walther started with the factory created by Matthias Conrad Pistor who was the chief armorer of the Kassel Armory.
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