Deutsche Werke guns are plainly marked and will bear the designation “Ortgies’ patent” and have a very art-deco looking couchant cat design on both the grips and the slide.īy 1924, some 435,000 of these handy little pistols had come off the assembly lines in 6.35mm, 7.65mm Browning, and 9x18mm Kurz. It was under this company that most were produced. In 1921, the company had transferred operations to Deutsche Werken AG. Henrich apparently knew the value of his product and when a large arms consortium offered to buy his company’s trade names, inventory, components, and tooling, he took it and retired. Ortgies set up a factory for his innovative little pistols in Erfurt, creatively named Ortgies & Co (and marked as such) in 1919. Proofmark showing ‘Ortgies Patent’ imprint.
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