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Johannes Winkler

1897 - 1947

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Johannes Winkler (29 May 1897 – 27 December 1947) was a German rocket pioneer who co-founded with Max Valier of Opel RAK the first German rocket society "Verein für Raumschiffahrt" and launched, after Friedrich Wilhelm Sander's successful Opel RAK liquid-rocket launches in 1929, one of the first successful liquid-fuelled rocket in Europe.In 1915 during World War I, he joined the German army and was wounded in action the following year, leading to a lengthy hospitalisation. After his recovery, he studied as a machinist at the Danzig technical college and found a job at Junkers. On 5 July 1927, he was one of the founders the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR – "Spaceflight Society"). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Winkler has received more than 22,947 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Winkler is the 237th most popular engineer (down from 228th in 2019), the 812th most popular biography from Poland (down from 734th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Polish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Johannes Winkler ranks 237 out of 323Before him are Walter Thiel, Eugène Flachat, Burt Rutan, Johann Georg Halske, Marcel Deprez, and Aron Ralston. After him are Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Verghese Kurien, Jean-Augustin Barral, Percy Hobart, Hendrik Wade Bode, and Antoine Nicolas Duchesne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Johannes Winkler ranks 190Before him are Fletcher Henderson, Harald Sæverud, Ardito Desio, George Murdock, Janaki Ammal, and Zhou Fohai. After him are Lya Mara, Edgard Colle, Nikolai Gikalo, Gene Tunney, Dorothy Arzner, and Géza von Bolváry. Among people deceased in 1947, Johannes Winkler ranks 134Before him are Fyodor Dan, Emil Racoviță, Gyula Károlyi, Martin Mutschmann, Eugène Lanti, and Manuel Machado. After him are Harry Carey, Anton Schall, Hendrik van Gent, Ian Hamilton, Petras Cvirka, and Rudolf Noack.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johannes Winkler ranks 812 out of 1,454Before him are Arkady Fiedler (1894), Wojciech Korfanty (1873), Max Gerson (1881), Jan Śniadecki (1756), Alfred Stock (1876), and Arno Holz (1863). After him are Gustav Radde (1831), Kornel Morawiecki (1941), Anna Langfus (1920), Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin (1922), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), and Edward Osóbka-Morawski (1909).

Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Johannes Winkler ranks 8Before him are Kurt Tank (1898), Hans Kammler (1901), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Henryk Dembiński (1791), and Walter Thiel (1910). After him are Boris Chertok (1912).