Hugo Junkers

Hugo Junkers is a German engineer, pioneer of the aeronautical engineering, born the February 3rd 1859 with Rheydt in the Rhineland and dead the February 3rd 1935 with Gauting, close to Munich).

After its studies at the universities of Berlin, Karlsruhe and Aachen, it founds with Wilhelm von Oechelhauser, the Continental-Gasgesellschaft director of the company of Dessau, an research institute for the gas engines. This enables him to finance thereafter its other research tasks.

The results of the tests carried out in its own blower push it to produce planes around metal structures, to replace any other material. It builds in the years 1914 - 1915 the first plane entirely metal in the world, the Junkers J 1. After the First World War, it manufactures the Junkers F 13, first entirely metal commercial transport aircraft. This plane can be regarded as the prototype of all those which followed until the Ju 52 which was an immense success as well in its civil uses as military. Many casualties last their safety with their fast evacuation by that which they affectionately called the Aunt Ju (to pronounce “you”) because, just like the English ships, the majority of the planes are female in German.

Since 1933 however, Hugo Junkers had been dispossessed of his factory by the capacity national-Socialist and had withdrawn himself with Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

See too

Internal bonds

List of the planes produced by Junkers

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