Hugo Junkers
Hugo Junkers was a German engineer and aircraft designer. As such he is generally credited with pioneering the design of allmetal airplanes and flying wings. As founder of the Junkers Flugzeug und Motorenwerke AG, he was one of the mainstays of the German aircraft industry in the years between World War I and World War II. In particular his multiengined allmetal passenger and freightplanes helped establish airlines in Germany as well as all over the world. Although his name is also linked to some of the most successful German warplanes of the Second World War, Hugo Junkers himself had nothing to do with their development. He was forced out of his own company by the Nazi government in 1934 and died on his 76th birthday, in 1935.
Junkers was born in Rheydt in the Prussian Rhine Province, the son of a welloff industrialist. After taking his Abitur exams in 1878 he attended the Royal Polytechnic University in Charlottenburg and the Royal Technical University in Aachen, where he completed his engineering studies in 1883.
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