Hugo Junkers
Life
- 1878 Studies at technical high schools Charlottenburg, Karlsruhe and Aachen
- 1888-1893 work with Dessauer Continental-Gasgesellschaft
- 1892 Patents calorie meter
- 1895 Founds Junkers & Co in Dessau to build gas engines & heaters
- 1897-1912 Professor at the Technical High School in Aachen
- 1908 Hans Reissner with Junkers' help starts work on all-metal aircraft
- 1910 Patents Nurflügel concept
- 1913/14 uses wind tunnel
- 1915 J1 metal monoplane aircraft flies
- 1917-1919 Partnership Junkers-Fokkerwerke AG; mass production of 227 J4 aircraft
- 1919 Junkers and Fokker part ways, company renamed Junkers Flugzeugwerke AG
- 1919 First civilian all-metal aircraft F13 flies
- 1919 Starts work on "Giant" JG1, to seat passengers within thick wings
- 1921 Allied Aeronautical Commission of Control orders JG1 destroyed (exceeds post-war size limit)
- 1921 Founds "Abteilung Luftverkehr der Junkerswerke" (later part of Lufthansa)
- 1922 Starts military aircraft production near Moscow, financed by German government loans
- 1922 Proposes 100-passenger J-1000 aircraft - never built
- 1925 Russian project fails, German government demands repayments
- 1926 Legal battles end with Junkers losing several companies
- 1928 First East-west transatlantic flight by Köhl, Hünefeld and Fitzmaurice in Junkers W33
- 1931 Junkers G38 34-passenger airliner delivered - largest in world - only two built
- 1932 After great crash, saves Junkers Flugzeugbau and Motorenbau from bankruptcy, by selling virtually all his other assets
- 1933 Nazi Government demands control of Junkers patents and companies
- 1934 Junkers placed under house arrest
- 1935 Dies under house arrest
- 1995 Junkers Thermotechnik, sold to Robert Bosch in 1932, celebrates 100 years of business
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