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Ernst Heinkel

1888 - 1958

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Dr. Ernst Heinkel (24 January 1888 – 30 January 1958) was a German aircraft designer, manufacturer, Wehrwirtschaftsführer in Nazi Germany, and member of the Nazi party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernst Heinkel has received more than 227,239 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ernst Heinkel is the 44th most popular engineer (up from 54th in 2019), the 989th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,087th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Engineer.

Ernst Heinkel was a German engineer and aircraft designer who is most famous for designing the He 178, the world's first turbojet-powered aircraft.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ernst Heinkel ranks 44 out of 323Before him are Anthony Fokker, John Ambrose Fleming, Alexander Wienerberger, Ildefons Cerdà, Edward A. Murphy Jr., and Sergey Ilyushin. After him are Emil Škoda, Banū Mūsā, Henry Gantt, William John Macquorn Rankine, Charles George Gordon, and Bjarne Stroustrup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Ernst Heinkel ranks 44Before him are Ossip Zadkine, Richard E. Byrd, Ernst Kretschmer, Georges Bernanos, Oskar Schlemmer, and Katherine Mansfield. After him are Irving Berlin, Fritz Klein, Max Steiner, W. O. Bentley, John Foster Dulles, and Vladimir K. Zworykin. Among people deceased in 1958, Ernst Heinkel ranks 26Before him are Georges Rouault, Ole Kirk Christiansen, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Edna Purviance, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, and André Bazin. After him are Abul Kalam Azad, Kim Tu-bong, Pál Maléter, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alfred Weber, and Petru Groza.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Heinkel ranks 989 out of 6,142Before him are Christian Thomasius (1655), Berti Vogts (1946), Conrad Schumann (1942), Henry II, Duke of Austria (1107), Ernst Zermelo (1871), and August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818). After him are Ludwig Guttmann (1899), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine (1823), Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1854), Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792), and Alfred Naujocks (1911).

Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Ernst Heinkel ranks 9Before him are Fritz Todt (1891), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), August Horch (1868), Hugo Junkers (1859), and Felix Wankel (1902). After him are Kurt Gerstein (1905), Arthur Scherbius (1878), Walter Dornberger (1895), Claude Dornier (1884), Erich Topp (1914), and Christian Otto Mohr (1835).