Heinrich Hertel
Heinrich Hertel ( born November 13, 1901 in Dusseldorf, † December 5, 1982 in Berlin) was a doctor of engineering sciences, professor of aerospace and defense business leaders.
Biography
From 1921 to 1925 Hertel studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich and at the Technical University Berlin. After completing his studies, he worked at the German Research Institute for Aviation in Berlin- Adlershof. In 1930 he received his doctorate at the Technical University Berlin. From 1933 he worked in Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke Rostock in the research and development department. He stepped from 1 May 1937 the NSDAP (No. 5084115 ) a. From 1938 he was an honorary professor at the University of Rostock and from 1941 at the Technical University Braunschweig. 1939 he moved to the Junkers aircraft and engine works as director of development and later he became a board member.
For Junkers, he worked on the investigations that led to the discovery of the area rule. Even in the development of the swept wing, as well as instrumental in the development of aircraft types He 100 and Ju 287, he was involved. For the Ju 86, he developed the first full viewing height cabin, which allowed up to an altitude of 14 kilometers to fly, he also was involved in the development of the Ju 252 and Ju 86R, equipped with a pressurized cabin and fuselage cylinder, involved. During his time at the Junkers Ju 90 developed as a freight and transport versions, the Ju 290 as a four-engined Ju 390 and a six -engined version and go into production.
In addition, he was inititiativ in the development of the first jet engine aircraft ( He 178 ), on the first Flüssigkeitsraktenflugzeugs ( He 176 ) and the design of a 100-seat aircraft Atlantic Ocean and to the development of large-capacity jet aircraft.
After the war he worked in France in the development of jet aircraft and the vertical take-off technique. The TU Berlin called Hertel 1955 to the chair of aircraft. At the University he conducted research on to aircraft design and continued his work begun in France for Senkrechstarttechnik continued until the year 1970.
Hertel was the mastermind of bionics in aviation, because he examined the body shape of different fish species and developed a hull shape with low air resistance than the conventional hull forms. These results were not included in the aircraft. Hertel received from RWTH Aachen honorary doctorate, also he was made an honorary member of the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics and an honorary citizen of the Space Centre Huntsville.
He was married and had a daughter and three sons. After 1949, he turned away from the aircraft, when the construction of fighter planes came in France in the foreground and worked until 1955 in the mining for coal and ore 1960 he turned against the defense research at universities and spoke publicly on the occasion of his honorary doctorate ceremony in Aachen on 16 April. , 1970 with his work before 1945 apart.