Ferdinand Mannlicher

Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher was an Austrian engineer and small arms designer. Along with James Paris Lee, Mannlicher was particularly noted for inventing the enbloc clip chargerloading magazine system. Later, while making improvements to other inventors prototype designs for rotaryfeed magazines, Mannlicher, together with his protg Otto Schnauer, patented a perfected rotary magazine design, the MannlicherSchnauer, which was a commercial and military success.

A scion of a longestablished bourgeois family descending from Most in Bohemia, Mannlicher was born in the German city of Mainz, where his father served as a k.k. official in the Austrian garrison at the Confederation Fortress. He returned to the Josefstadt district of Vienna with his parents in 1857, and after receiving his Matura highschool exam attended the Vienna University of Technology. He started his professional career in 1869 as an employee of the Austrian Southern Railway company and worked as an engineer at the Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway company until 1887.

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