From the Guns.com Warehouse: The Hungarian Frommer Stop (PHOTOS)

By Chris Eger

The FEG-made Frommer Stop, in .32ACP. (Photo: Richard Taylor/Guns.com)
Delving into the Guns.com Warehouse, we bring you a vintage Hungarian-made handgun that is curiously over-designed. The story starts off with Rudolf Frommer, a bespectacled and balding banker who resembled the fictional Ernst Stavro Blofeld and, among other claims to fame, compiled the first Hungarian-German Stock Exchange dictionary of terms. Frommer was working for a Budapest bank in 1896, when the financial institution acquired Fegyver- és Gépgyártó Részvénytársaság (FEG, now one of the biggest water heater makers in Europe). However, at the time, FEG was primarily in the business of making small arms for the Honvédség, the Hungarian military.
Assigned by the bank to help reorganize FEG’s struggling finances, Frommer eventually went on to start contributing his own mechanical designs to the factory. Although he was not a trained engineer, he came up with some interesting early semi-auto pistols, filing his first of over 100 patents in 1899. Becoming the company’s Business Director, Frommer kept pushing forward with his own gun designs.
Throughout the first decade of the 20th Century, FEG released several of Frommer’s less commercially successful early semi-autos
By 1910, Frommer had crafted his early masterpiece, the Stop (with some arguing the name

Source: Guns.com