Facts: - death place: oberndorf am neckar , german empire - known for: designer of the mauser rifle - caption: wilhelm mauser - death date: 13 january 1882 - birth date: 02 may 1834 - name: wilhelm mauser - nationality: german - image: wilhelm mauser 1834-1882 . gif - birth place: oberndorf am neckar , kingdom of wurttemberg Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of wilhelm mauser .
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wilhelm mauser , -lrb- may 2 , 1834 - january 13 , 1882 -rrb- was a german weapon designer and manufacturer/industrialist .mauser was born in oberndorf am neckar , in what was then the kingdom of wurttemberg .his father and his four brothers were gunsmiths .together with his brother paul mauser -lrb- 1838 - 1914 -rrb- wilhelm mauser designed the mauser model 1871 rifle , the first of a successful line of mauser rifles and pistols .the rifle was adopted as the gewehr 71 or infanterie-gewehr 71 and was the first metal cartridge weapon of the german empire .while paul was the more technical of the two , wilhelm handled this business side of the factory .the mauser company later developed the gewehr 98 and karabiner 98k rifle series .the gewehr 98 itself was the latest in a line of mauser rifles that were introduced in 1898 .