INVENTOR

Hugo Schmeisser

1884 - 1953

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Hugo Schmeisser (24 September 1884 – 12 September 1953) was a German developer of 20th century infantry weapons. Schmeisser was born in Jena, Thuringia. His father, Louis Schmeisser (1848–1917), was one of the best-known weapons designers in Europe. The life and work of Hugo Schmeisser mostly took place in the weapons manufacturing city of Suhl, Thuringia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Schmeisser is the 136th most popular inventor (down from 126th in 2019), the 1,527th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,351st in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Inventor.

Hugo Schmeisser is most famous for inventing the first practical submachine gun, the MP-18.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Hugo Schmeisser ranks 136 out of 426. Before him are Robert Adler, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, W. O. Bentley, Percy Spencer, Elisha Gray, and Josef Ressel. After him are Zénobe Gramme, Elias Howe, Mary the Jewess, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Taiichi Ohno, and Louis Le Prince.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Hugo Schmeisser ranks 51. Before him are Maria Spiridonova, Zinaida Serebriakova, Louis B. Mayer, Johan Laidoner, Empress Teimei, and Béla Balázs. After him are Princess Helen of Serbia, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Wilhelm Backhaus, Félix Gouin, Mammad Amin Rasulzadeh, and Henri Cornet. Among people deceased in 1953, Hugo Schmeisser ranks 45. Before him are Richard von Mises, Johan Laidoner, Margaret Bondfield, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine, Bill Tilden, and Jean Epstein. After him are John Christie, Noe Zhordania, Moïse Kisling, Mary Anderson, Nobutake Kondō, and Hank Williams.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hugo Schmeisser ranks 1,527 out of 7,253. Before him are Herta Bothe (1921), George Müller (1805), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Otto V, Duke of Bavaria (1346), Philip Johan von Strahlenberg (1676), and Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin (1673). After him are Karl Albrecht (1920), Prince Ernst August of Hanover (1954), Tarkan (1972), Charles I, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (1654), Sebastian Kneipp (1821), and Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Hugo Schmeisser ranks 17. Before him are Emile Berliner (1851), Joseph Pilates (1883), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Theobald Boehm (1794), Hans von Ohain (1911), and Alfred Krupp (1812). After him are Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), Uziel Gal (1923), and Henrich Focke (1890).

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