Fallschirmjaeger Kappmesser Eagle-5

Many uses and many people. The drop-knife by Peter Altenbach of Swan Werks, Ohligs-Solingen. Not really a takedown knife at just 100mm. but could land a "shock" thrust after a blow with a metal pipe.

Filip Krapp used this method adding some additional lashing with a length of heavy chain in 1941. In Berlin Headquarters the "throwing" of gravel by the Geheime Staatspolizei could semi-stun also. Paratroopers carried the 5-function gravity knife in the Luftwaffe that had Deschler Skull and Assmann Eagle.

Franz Walker Stahlecker kept one on his desk when having RSHA Gestapo joint meetings.

The 1956 second pattern gravity knife was similar to Nazi period.  These listed here are only a few companies in Germany manufactured this tool :

* Württembergische Metallwarenfabrik           (WMF)

* Eickhorn

* Otto-Förster-Witzhelden
   (OFW)

*  Horstator

The 1963 pattern Bundeswehr gravity knife replaced the 1956 pattern gravity knife. Since April Fools Day 2003 the possession of Fallschirmjaeger Kappmesser Eagle-5 is illegal in Germany.