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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Winkler has received more than 25,244 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Johannes Winkler is the 253rd most popular engineer (down from 235th in 2019), the 885th most popular biography from Poland (down from 812th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Polish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Johannes Winkler ranks 253 out of 389. Before him are Hans Moravec, Paul Mauser, Wilhelm Nusselt, Walter Thiel, Waloddi Weibull, and Pierre Cérésole. After him are René Panhard, Oskar von Miller, Eugène Flachat, Louis Vicat, Jean-Augustin Barral, and William Froude.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Johannes Winkler ranks 213. Before him are Isaías Medina Angarita, Nikolai Gikalo, Camillo Berneri, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Conrad Nagel, and Moe Howard. After him are Jimmie Rodgers, Roman Vishniac, Max Newman, Jacob Bjerknes, Choʻlpon, and Neil Ritchie. Among people deceased in 1947, Johannes Winkler ranks 145. Before him are Rudolf Noack, Max Dessoir, Amadeo García, Wilhelm Heye, Ian Hamilton, and Martin Klein. After him are Tefta Tashko-Koço, Harry Carey, Eugène Lanti, Ture Rangström, Jean-Richard Bloch, and Manuel Machado.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johannes Winkler ranks 885 out of 1,694. Before him are Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński (1874), Mascha Kaléko (1907), Theodor Tolsdorff (1909), Władysław Ślewiński (1856), Jacob Talmon (1916), and Salomon Jadassohn (1831). After him are Szymon Czechowicz (1689), Ludwik Hirszfeld (1884), Wanda Jakubowska (1907), Johann Christian Günther (1695), Paweł Adamowicz (1965), and Zygmunt Gorazdowski (1845).

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Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Johannes Winkler ranks 9. Before him are Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Kurt Tank (1898), Henryk Dembiński (1791), Konstantin Kalinin (1887), and Walter Thiel (1910). After him are Boris Chertok (1912).

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