Gewehr 1888

Gewehr 1888 in original configuration - 8×57mm Patronen 88.

Karabiner 1888 - 8×57mm Patronen 88

Gewehr 1888/05 - 7.92x57mm Mauser

Turkish Gew.88/05/35 - 7.92x57mm Mauser. This is a movie armory weapon.

The Model 1888 Commission Rifle, best known under the German name Gewehr 88, was the German Empire's response to the French adoption of the Lebel 1886. It was designed by the German Army's Rifle Testing Commission, and combined elements of Mauser and Mannlicher rifle design. It fed from a Mannlicher-type 5-round single-column magazine loaded with an en-bloc clip. The bolt featured two opposing lugs on the front of the bolt body, with the bolt handle forming a safety lug. The barrel was covered with a tubular steel jacket that threaded onto the receiver ring, with a ladder-type rear sight. The cartridge designed for the rifle was the Gewehrpatrone-1888 8×57mm, the predecessor to the 7.9x57mmIS Mauser. It featured a 225gr round-nose bullet .318" in diameter.

In 1905 the German Army adopted the Gewehrpatrone-1905 with a 154gr-spitzer bullet .323" in diameter. To supplement the Gewehr 98, many Gew.88 rifles were converted to safely fire the P.05 cartridge. The magazine was modified to feed from Mauser stripper clips. These rifles were referred to as Gew.88/05.

Turkey purchased large numbers of Gew.88 rifles during the First World War. These rifles remained in service with the Turkish Republic, and many were modified during the 1930's update program. The barrel jackets were removed, and a tangent-leaf sight and wooden handguard fitted. The straight-grip stock was replaced with a pistol-gripped stock, and an M93-type bayonet lug to mount the standard Turkish bayonet. These conversions are designated Gew.88/05/35, 1935 being the first year of conversion.

Specifications

(1888 – 1899)

• Type: Bolt-action rifle

• Caliber: 8×57mm M/88, 7.92×57mm Mauser from Gewehr 88/05 onwards

• Weight: 8.6 lb (3.9 kg)

• Length: 49.0 in (1,245 mm), 37 in (950 mm) (Karabiner 88)

• Barrel length: 29.1 in (740 mm), 19 in (490 mm) (Karabiner 88)

• Capacity: 5 round clip in a fixed internal magazine

• Variants: Gewehr 88, Karabiner 88, Gewehr 91, Gewehr 88/05, Gewehr 88/14

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The Gewehr 1888 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Captain from Köpenick		A German soldier		1931
The First Platoon (Pervyy vzvod)		German soldiers		1933
Deserter (Dezertir)		German mounted police	Karabiner 88	1933
La Bandera	Jean Gabin	Pierre Gilieth		1935
	Raymond Aimos	Marcel Mulot
		Legionnaires
La Grande Illusion		German Prison guards and spodiers	G88/05 with Seitengewehr SG 98 bayonet	1937
Forty Thousand Horsemen		German and Turkish soldiers	G88/05	1940
Ernst Thälmann - Son of his Class		German soldiers and Communists	G88/05 and Karabiner 88	1954
Ernst Thälmann - Leader of his Class		German soldiers	G88/05 and Karabiner 88	1955
Hud		A rancher	Sporter 88	1963
Blood Brothers (Blutsbrüder)		Cheyennes	Karabiner 88	1975
Severino	Constantin Fugasin	Blas	Karabiner 88	1978
	Emanoil Petrut	Domingo
		Manzeneros warriors and ranchers	Gewehr 88, Karabiner 88
Bavarian Outlaw		Bavarian policemen	Gew.88/05	2008
Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows	Jude Law	Dr. Watson		2011
	Robert Downey Jr.	Sherlock Holmes
	Paul Anderson	Colonel Sebastian Moran
	Alexandre Carril	Twin
	Victor Carril	Twin
	Noomi Rapace	Madam Simza Heron
		Meinhard guards
Day of the Falcon (Or noir)		A sultan's guard	Gewehr 88/05/35	2011
Emden Men	Michael Lott	Matrose Hilgert	Gew.88/05	2012
	Oliver Korittke	Maat Kluthe
		German sailors
Gallipoli: End of the Road		Turkish soldiers		2013

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Note / Episode	Air Date
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Robert Vaughn	Napoleon Solo		1964-1968
Fiery Roads (Ognennye dorogi)	Ulmas Alikhodzhayev	Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi	Ep.15	1985
The Caravan of Sailors		German sailors	Gew.88/05	2006
		Turkish soldiers
Clara Immerwahr		French and German soldiers	G88/05, Kar88, G88/05/35	2014
Hetaeras of Major Sokolov (Getery mayora Sokolova)	Darya Melnikova	Beshenaya	Kar.88 with sniper scope	2014
Deadline Gallipoli		Turkish civilian	Gew.88/05, Episode 2	2015
And Quiet Flows the Don (Tikhiy Don)		Austro-Hungarian soldiers		2015
Doctor Who (New Series) - Season 10		German soldiers	Gew.88/05/35, Episode "Twice Upon a Time"	2017
Babylon Berlin - Season 1	Volker Bruch	Gereon Rath	Gew.88/05, Ep. 07	2017
		German soldiers
Babylon Berlin - Season 2	Ivo Pietzcker	Moritz Rath	Gew.88/05	2017
	Peter Kurth	Bruno Wolter
	Volker Bruch	Gereon Rath
		German soldiers
Demon of the Revolution (Demon revolyutsii)		German soldiers		2017
1918: Uprising of the Sailors	Henriette Confurius	Helene Hartung	Gew.88/05	2018
	Martin Winkelmann	Herman Knüfken
		German sailors and soldiers
Alex the Fierce (Alex Lyutyj)		Hilfspolizei		2020

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Notation	Release Date
Battlefield: 1918		Carbine	2003
The Great War 1918		Carbine	2013
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918	"G88"		2014
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly	"Model 1888 commission rifle"		2014
Verdun	"Gewehr 88/05 Kommissionsgewehr"		2015
	"Karabiner 1888"
Tannenberg	"Gewehr 88/05 Kommissionsgewehr"		2019
	"Karabiner 1888"
Enlisted		Gewehr 1888/05	2021
Beyond The Wire	"Gewehr 1888/05"		2022
Isonzo	"Repetiergewehr M.13"		2022

Anime

Title	Character	Note	Date
Fullmetal Alchemist: Conqueror of Shamballa	Police officer Hughes		2005

Hanyang 88

Hanyang 88 - 7.92x57mm Mauser. This weapon saw service in the Sino-Japanese wars and the Chinese Civil War.

An unlicensed copy of the Gew.88 was adopted by the Qing Dynasty for their Newly Created Army in 1895. This rifle was produced at the Hanyang Arsenal as Type-88 rifle and would serve Imperial, Nationalist, and Communist forces all the way through to the end of the Chinese Civil War. In 1904 the design was modified, and the Gew.88's tubular barrel shroud and ladder-type rear sight were eliminated and a Mauser-style tangent-leaf sight and half-length handguard were substituted.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)	Xijuan Zhu	Wu Qionghua		1961
	Mei Xiang	Fu Honglian
	Shugui Shi	Dan Zhu
		The local militia, Chinese Red Army
Last Emperor		Kuomintang troops		1987
City of Life and Death		Nationalist Chinese soldiers		2009
Let the Bullets Fly	Wen Jiang	Pocky Zhang	Hanyang 88 carbine	2010
Back to 1942	Zhao Yi	Master Fan's son		2010
		Chinese soldiers and policemen
Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan)	Peter Ho	Mu Liangfeng		2011
	Song Jia	Liu Yan
1911		A resistance fighter		2011
Shaolin		Chinese soldiers		2011
The Eight Hundred		Chinese soldiers		2020