“a new type of engine, half turbine, half reciprocating. It is my invention!”
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Felix Wankel
Felix Heinrich Wankel was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War I and was a prominent member of the Nazi Party.
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science · German mechanical engineer (1902–1988) · inventor · engineer · politician · also Felix Wankel, Felix Heinrich Wankel, Wankel
Born 13 August 1902 · Died 9 October 1988 · Q77097
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2026· 2 entries
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Felix Wankel
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1988· 2 entries
Died 1988-10-09.
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Wankel died in Heidelberg in October 1988, aged 86.
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1971· 2 entries
Won John Price Wetherill Medal (1971).
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Wankel sold his share in licensing royalties for 50 million Deutschmarks (adjusted for inflation, approximately €87m in 2021) to the English conglomerate Lonrho
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1970· 1 entry
The next model had a four-rotor Wankel engine and could reach top speed 290 km/h but never reached production
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1969· 2 entries
Wankel was granted an honorary Doctorate of Engineering from the Technical University of Munich
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With a three-rotor Wankel engine
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1945· 1 entry
And his laboratory was closed by French occupation troops
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1931· 1 entry
Wagner entrusted Wankel with the leadership of the Hitler Youth in Baden
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1927· 1 entry
Where Wankel worked from time to time until his arrest in 1933
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1921· 1 entry
Joined the Heidelberg branch of the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund and in 1922 he became a member of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), which was banned soon afterwards
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1902· 2 entries
Born 1902-08-13.
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In Lahr in what was then the Grand Duchy of Baden in the Upper Rhine Plain of present-day southwestern Germany
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