Raimey, Edgar Strempel became member of the Bhag in 1950, the same year as Edgar Hbner.
The Bhag, founded in 1949, was a cooperative of Suhler gunmakers. For them, it was the only chance to stay as a freelance gunmaker in the communist DDR (German Democratic Republic)! They kept on making their guns on their own, got their parts from the cooperative and later sold their guns through the Bhag. By the way, the Bhag provided Meffert systems only to their members. You will not find any Bhag stamped gun with another action! Meffert provided their actions always with four times locked action in contrary to Merkel, which made only their higher priced guns with that.
Cheers,
Wolfgang
