Yes - it certainly is the same company.

Simson was the only firm allowed (under the Versailles Treaty after WWI) to rework and manufacture Lugers for internal German use by the Police and the authorized 100,000 man army.

They used the tooling originally made for the Erfurt Royal Arsenal.

The tooling was sent to Krieghoff after the Nazi government seized and shut down Simson in the early 1930's. Simson was owned by a Jewish family.

There were approximately 12,000 Lugers made by Simson before they were shut down...

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