MP35
Sign in to saveThe MP35 () was a submachine gun used by the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and German police both before and during World War II. It was developed in the early 1930s by Emil Bergmann (son of Theodor Bergmann) and manufactured at the Bergmann company in Suhl (that also built one of the first submachine guns, the MP 18).
Key facts
- Weapon.velocity
- ~
- Weapon.name
- Maschinenpistole 35 (MP35)
- Weapon.image
- Bergmann_Mp-35.jpg
- Weapon.caption
- Bergmann MP35 with a spare magazine and a pouch.
- Weapon.origin
- Nazi Germany
- Weapon.type
- Submachine gun
- Weapon.is_ranged
- yes
- Weapon.service
- 1935–1945
- Weapon.used_by
- See Users
- Weapon.wars
- Chaco WarSpanish Civil WarWorld War II
- Weapon.designer
- Emil Bergmann
- Weapon.number
- ~40,000
- Weapon.manufacturer
- Bergmann, Schultz & Larsen
- Weapon.design_date
- 1932
- Weapon.production_date
- 1935-1944
- Weapon.variants
- BMP32, Bergmann MP34
- Weapon.weight
- Unloaded
- Weapon.part_length
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- Image
- Bergmann Mp-35.jpg
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- service entry
- 1935-01-01
- service retirement
- 1945-01-01
- Commons category
- Bergmann MP35
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The MP35 () was a submachine gun used by the Wehrmacht, Waffen-SS and German police both before and during World War II. It was developed in the early 1930s by Emil Bergmann (son of Theodor Bergmann) and manufactured at the Bergmann company in Suhl (that also built one of the first submachine guns, the MP 18).
==History== The forerunner of the MP35 was the MP32 that Danish company Schultz & Larsen produced (under licence from the Bergmann company) and which was chambered for 9×23mm Bergmann ammunition. The BMP32 design was later updated by the Bergmann factory and in 1934, the Bergmann MP34 submachine gun appeared (not to be confused with different Steyr MP34). The limited manufacturing capabilities at the Bergmann plant required production to be shifted to Carl Walther's Zella-Mehlis plant. This German company produced some 2,000 BMP34s for export and domestic sales.