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