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>>Ernest August Vom Hofe was Hermann Gerlich's assistant in Danzig during the 1920s. He then moved to Leipzig with Wilhelm Brenneke. In the early 1930s, he founded the firm HOFMANN Waffen und Munition (formed by Hofe and Richard Schienmann) in Berlin to manufacture his own high-velocity cartridges and rifles based on Mauser actions. In 1935, Schienmann left the company, which was renamed "Vom Hofe Waffen und Munition."
Exported in significant quantities to the United States between the two world wars, they virtually disappeared with the death of their creator in 1945. However, the names and models are continued to this day by Walter Gehman of Karlsruhe and later Stuttgart.
Until 1939, the ammunition was physically manufactured by DWM. Later, it was manufactured by other German manufacturers, but always marked Vom Hofe.
The cartridge is based on the 6.5x55 Swedish and is the third in the family following the introduction of the 7x73 and the 5.6x61. Although officially introduced in 1937, some cartridges manufactured by DWM bear the NN marking, indicative of 1933. In 1956, Gehman returned to market it, manufactured by IWK. After the company's demise in 1972, Norma continued production. Its success has always been less than that of its "brother," the 5.6x61 Vom Hofe , and it appears to have disappeared from the market during the 1990s.<<
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