Wilhelm Schmidding

Wilhelm Schmid thing from soil Bach presented in WWII ago rocket engines, which were used in several types of aircraft. The engines were made ​​in the branch Schmiedeberg, which was founded in the summer of 1943 in the village Busch Vorwerk in the Giant Mountains, Lower Silesia. After investigations by the Air Defense Intelligence, the intelligence service of the U.S. Air Force, were also used for testing new rocket fuels prisoners from the concentration camp at Laura Lehesten, a branch of the Buchenwald concentration camp, used.

The engineer Hans Kleiner (1907-1981) was co-owner of Wilhelm Schmid KG thing and headed under the Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions Fritz Todt the Main Committee of the aircraft equipment. Was in Schmiedeberg et al the co-development of the Heinkel Julia I (Project 1068 ).

Use of Schmidding drives

• Henschel Hs 293: two solid engines Schmidding 109-513
• Bachem Ba 349: four launch booster rockets ( releasable ) Schmidding 109-533 (1200 kp, 11.768 kN) with 10 seconds burning time
• Ruhrstahl X-4: Schmidding 109-603