Gewehr 1888

Gewehr 1888 in original configuration - 7.9x57mmI Patronen-88.

Gewehr 1888/05 - 7.92x57mm Mauser

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

Karabiner 1888 - 7.92x57mm Mauser

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

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 7.9x57mmI, 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.

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 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
The Red Detachment of Women (Hong se niang zi jun)	Xijuan Zhu	Wu Qionghua	Hanyang 88	1961
	Mei Xiang	Fu Honglian
	Shugui Shi	Dan Zhu
		The local militia, Chinese Red Army
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
Last Emperor		Kuomintang troops	Hanyang 88	1987
Bavarian Outlaw		Bavarian policemen	Gew.88/05	2008
City of Life and Death		Nationalist Chinese soldiers	Hanyang 88	2009
Let the Bullets Fly	Wen Jiang	Pocky Zhang	Hanyang 88 carbine	2010
Back to 1942	Zhao Yi	Master Fan's son	Hanyang 88	2010
		Chinese soldiers and policemen
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
Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan)	Peter Ho	Mu Liangfeng	Hanyang 88	2011
	Song Jia	Liu Yan
Day of the Falcon (Or noir)		A sultan's guard	Gewehr 88/05/35	2011
1911		A resistance fighter	Hanyang 88	2011
Shaolin		Chinese soldiers	Hanyang 88	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

Show 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
		Turksih 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

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"

Anime

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