Hellmuth Walter

Hellmuth Walter ( born August 26, 1900 in Wedel near Hamburg, † December 16 1980 in Upper Montclair (New Jersey) ) was a German inventor and submarine developers.

Life

After completing his studies in 1923 at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin, he initially worked as a designer for turbines in the Vulkan Werft in Hamburg. Later, he developed air defense equipment for the Army.

From 1930 he worked at the Germania shipyard in Kiel, where he began to apply his idea of the gas turbine as a drive for submarines into action (Walter drive). Walter also developed rocket engines ( for example, the Messerschmitt Me 163 and the Heinkel He 176 ), starting booster rockets and torpedo drives.

1935, Walter in Kiel the company engineering firm Hellmuth Walter, initially with a staff that already in 1936 with 300 employees. 1939/1940 we moved into new factory premises at Tannenberg in close proximity to the North Sea-Baltic Canal. 1945 were employed, including the forced laborers in the works 5,000 people.

After the Second World War, the factory was placed under British control and Walter brought in October 1946 with a portion of its employees to the UK to continue to work there at the Walter drive. In 1949 he returned to Germany, the work was again handed over his leadership. But a few months later he moved to the United States. There he worked at the factory Worthington in Harrison ( NJ ).

In 1956 he founded in Kiel, Hellmuth Walter GmbH, in a civilian submarine with Walter drive was designed with the label " STINT " 1967.