All factory records were destroyed on orders of the local French Army commander. The factory had been emptied by the French after World War II as provisional compensation for war damage they had suffered.With the fall of Germany at the end of World War II, Oberndorf came under French control, and the entire Waffenfabrik Mauser AG factory was dismantled by French occupying forces. The company was established in the old Mauser arms factory in Oberndorf. Heckler & Koch was founded in 1949 by Alex Seidel, Edmund Heckler and Theodor Koch.
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