[3] Toolmaker Dieter Keppeler began working as a firearm designer at the Carl Walther factory in Ulm in 1958.
As early as in 1985 the German national team used rifles produced by Keppeler in the European Championships.
[4] Bernhard Fritz was a well-known manufacturer of exclusive firearms for hunting, and had received his training at Ferlach in Austria, the only technical university for gunsmiths in Western Europe.
After becoming a certified craftsman in Ulm in 1979, he settled in Fichtenberg in Swabia in 1980 where he worked as an independent gunsmith and produced exclusive handmade hunting rifles.
[4] In January 1992, Dieter Keppeler bought the company from Bernhard Fritz and moved his own company to Fichtenberg, where he went to produce hunting, competition and sniper rifles under the name Keppeler & Fritz GmbH.