“and that is not enough. I have had to buy a giant Mercedes for myself.”
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Ernst Heinkel
Dr. Ernst Heinkel was a German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführer in Nazi Germany, and member of the Nazi Party. His company Heinkel Flugzeugwerke produced the Heinkel He 178, the world's first turbojet-powered aircraft, and the Heinkel He 176, the first rocket aircraft.
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business · Aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888–1958) · military flight engineer · aerospace engineer · entrepreneur · mechanical engineer · physicist · engineer · also Ernst Heinkel, Heinkel, Ernst, Heinkel
Born 24 January 1888 · Died 30 January 1958 · Q77105
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1981· 1 entry
Heinkel was inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum
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1959· 1 entry
Heinkel's company was sued by Edmund Bartl for being enriched by slave labour during World War II; however, the German Supreme Court dismissed his claims for filing too late, and ordered Bartl to pay court costs and atto
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1958· 1 entry
Died 1958-01-30.
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1956· 2 entries
And translated into English as He1000 in its British edition and Stormy Life: Memoirs of a Pioneer of the Air Age in its US edition
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Introduced the Heinkel Kabine bubble car
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1953· 1 entry
Heinkel began production of the Tourist scooter, followed by the Perle moped in 1954
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1943· 1 entry
The armaments authority finally ordered him to transform the company into "Ernst Heinkel AG"
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1938· 1 entry
One of the rarest honors of the German government
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1922· 1 entry
Established the Heinkel-Flugzeugwerke company at Warnemünde
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1921· 1 entry
Heinkel was appointed head designer of the recently re-established Caspar-Werke, but soon left after a dispute over ownership of a design
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1909· 1 entry
Attended an international airshow in Frankfurt am Main
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1888· 1 entry
Born 1888-01-24.
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