Johann Gottfried Schmeisser (1767-1837), German chemist and naturalist, amongst others Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Linnean Society of London
tropicensis was first named by Rebecca Schmeisser McKean in 2011.
The MP28 was produced by Haenel under the supervision of Hugo Schmeisser, it was copied by the Second Spanish Republic under the codename Naranjero.
At the end of the war, Hugo Schmeisser claimed that 424,000 MP 43/MP 44/StG 44 rifles were built between June 1943 and April 1945 in four plants: 185,000 by C.G. Haenel in Suhl; 55,000 by J.P. Sauer & Sohn in Suhl; 104,000 in Erfurt; and 80,000 by Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG in Steyr, Austria.