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Focke-Wulf
Defunct German aircraft manufacturer
This article is about the German aircraft company. For the Dutch aircraft company, see Fokker.
Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG (German pronunciation:[ˌfɔkəˈvʊlf]) was a German manufacturer of civil and military aircraft before and during World War II.[1] Many of the company's successful fighter aircraft designs were slight modifications of the Focke-Wulf Fw 190. It is one of the predecessor companies of today's Airbus.
History
[edit]The company was founded in Bremen on 24 October 1923 as Bremer Flugzeugbau AG by Prof. Henrich Focke,[a]Georg Wulf[b] and Dr. rer. pol. Werner Naumann.[c] Almost immediately, they renamed the company Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau AG (later Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH).[2]
Focke-Wulf merged, under government pressure, with Albatros Flugzeugwerke of Berlin in 1931. The Albatros Flugzeugwerke engineer and test pilot Kurt Tank became head of the technical department and started work on the Fw 44Stieglitz (Goldfinch).
Dr Ludwig Roselius became Chairman in 1925 and handed over to his brother Friedrich in early 1933. In 1938 Roselius' HAG combine increased its shareholding to 46% and C. Lorenz AG secured 28%. The company was reconstituted as F
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By William Pearce
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Henrich Focke
INVENTOR
1890 - 1979
Henrich Focke
Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henrich Focke has received more than 115,224 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Henrich Focke is the 178th most popular inventor (up from 219th in 2019), the 2,156th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,634th in 2019) and the 24th most popular German Inventor.
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Among inventors, Henrich Focke ranks 178 out of 426. Before him are Reginald Fessenden, Charles Cros, Matthew Boulton, Friedrich Zander, Joseph Monier, and Philo Farnsworth. After him are James Dyson, Georges Claude, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Charles Martin Hall, Larry Sanger, and Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorf