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  • Berlin-Lübecker Maschinenfabrik
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  • Berlin-Lübecker Maschinenfabrik (BLM) was a manufacturer of handguns, infantry rifles, ammunition up to 2 cm, flareguns and precision military equipment in Germany from 1936 to 1945. The company, based in Lübeck, Germany, was one of a number of metal-related businesses owned by Bernhard Berghaus, a German industrialist and member of the Nazi party who played an important role in the rearmament of Germany during the Third Reich.
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Products
  • weapons, Rifle Scopes, Firearm Components
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location country
  • Germany
Footnotes
  • Invented the hammer forged barrel process
Name
  • Berlin-Lübecker Maschinenfabrik
Area served
location-city
  • Lübeck
Fate
  • Dissolved
Industry
Owner
  • Bernhard Berghaus
abstract
  • Berlin-Lübecker Maschinenfabrik (BLM) was a manufacturer of handguns, infantry rifles, ammunition up to 2 cm, flareguns and precision military equipment in Germany from 1936 to 1945. The company, based in Lübeck, Germany, was one of a number of metal-related businesses owned by Bernhard Berghaus, a German industrialist and member of the Nazi party who played an important role in the rearmament of Germany during the Third Reich. BLM had a reported labor force of 3,809 in August 1944, comprising 1931 German men, 539 German women, 467 foreign women, 752 foreign men, and 120 war prisoners. The foreign workers were housed in onsite barracks. After the war, Berghaus was sought by the Allies for his participation in using forced labor in his facilities. The plant, located on Curt-Helms-Str. (today: Glashüttenweg), sat along the eastern bank of the Trave River north of the old City of Lübeck, an island in the Trave River.