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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 247,633 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Ernst Heinkel is the 39th most popular engineer (up from 43rd in 2019), the 886th most popular biography from Germany (up from 989th 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 39 out of 389Before him are Emil Škoda, Hugo Junkers, Villard de Honnecourt, Pavel Sukhoi, Felix Wankel, and Ildefons Cerdà. After him are Howard H. Aiken, Anthony Fokker, Sergey Ilyushin, Marcello Gandini, William John Macquorn Rankine, and Moshe Arens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Ernst Heinkel ranks 44Before him are Georges Bernanos, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Vladimir K. Zworykin, Ossip Zadkine, Frances Marion, and Josef Albers. After him are Ernst Kretschmer, Carin Göring, August Kubizek, Irving Berlin, Oskar Schlemmer, and Max Steiner. Among people deceased in 1958, Ernst Heinkel ranks 22Before him are Lion Feuchtwanger, Maurice Gamelin, G. E. Moore, Georges Rouault, Giacomo Balla, and Abul Kalam Azad. After him are Alfred Weber, Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, André Bazin, Kim Tu-bong, Tyrone Power, and Edna Purviance.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ernst Heinkel ranks 886 out of 7,253Before him are Andrew Wiles (1953), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752), Gotthard Kettler (1517), Eugen Dühring (1833), Johannes Trithemius (1462), and Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876). After him are Johann Ambrosius Bach (1645), Florian Geyer (1490), Saloninus (242), Fritz Haarmann (1879), Hans-Dietrich Genscher (1927), and Philip William, Elector Palatine (1615).

Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Ernst Heinkel ranks 9Before him are Fritz Todt (1891), August Horch (1868), Willy Messerschmitt (1898), Albert Göring (1895), Hugo Junkers (1859), and Felix Wankel (1902). After him are Arthur Scherbius (1878), Kurt Gerstein (1905), Walter Dornberger (1895), John A. Roebling (1806), Alexander Lippisch (1894), and Claude Dornier (1884).