Edmund Rumpler
'Edmund Rumpler, born 4 January 1872, in Vienna, Austria, deceased 7 September 1940, in Züsow, near Wismar, was an Austrian automobile and aircraft designer, working mainly in Germany. He was automotive engineer by training, and worked in that field until 1907.[1][2]
Influenced by the Wright Brothers, he began focusing on aviation, and, in 1910, copying the Etrich Taube, he became the first aircraft manufacturer in Germany.[3]
He continued working with automobiles, and after the First World War, he applied aircraft streamlining to a car, building the Tropfenwagen (German, "drop car"), a production model becoming a sensation at the 1921 Berlin Auto Show. Related efforts, in the automotive field continued, though his Tropfenwagen was not a commercial success, only 100 Tropfenwagen were built, and just two of which survive.[4]
He did return to aircraft.[5]
Because he was Jewish, Rumpler was imprisoned after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, his career being thereby ruined. Though he was soon released, he died in 1940, with the Nazis destroying his records.[6]
It is mainly in his manufacture of a variant on the Etrich Taube that he concerns us. More on his manufacturing can be found on Rumpler-Werke A.-G.. in Berlin-Johannisthal and Rumpler-Werke G.m.b.H. in Berlin-Johannisthal, and information regarding the Taube production in particular may be found at Luftfahrtzeugbau Gessellschaft Ing. Edmund Rumpler.
Sources
Edmund Rumpler on English Wikipedia, Edmund Rumpler on French Wikipedia, Edmund Rumpler on German Wikipedia
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Edmund Rumpler
- Patent DE-1918-416009 (English title: Airplane, Filing date: 1918-10-16)
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| Birth date | 4 January 1872 |
| Death date | 7 September 1940 |
| Countries | AT, DE |
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| Occupations | aircraft designer and manufacturer, automobile engineer, designer, and manufacturer |
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