Klemm
The light Klemm GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Böblingen
History
Foundation
1926 Hanns Klemm became independent and founded in Böblingen the light Klemm GmbH. From 1927 presented clamping Daimler L20 forth under his own name as a Klemm L20. From L 20 was built under the direction of Robert Lussier, then the best-known aircraft of the company, the Klemm L 25, which was later renamed in Kl 25. She brought it already to more than 600 pieces, with no less than 14 different types of engines could be installed. Licenses were awarded to Great Britain and the United States. 1929 was a further development of the Klemm L 25, the terminal KL 26 There then followed the cabin jets Klemm Kl 31 and Klemm Kl 32
Lussers successor Friedrich Fecher was, who brought by the Technical Office of the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) preferred mixed construction and was responsible for the Klemm Kl 35. With this Hanns Klemm aircraft suffered a setback, because the V 1 in Rechlin crashed with wing fracture, which was indeed explained by material error, but in reality was probably due to overuse. Recalculations and strength tests showed that the rules were properly met. The production could thus begin. The aircraft was built then in large numbers both in the parent plant, as well as Fieseler and later with the Czech company Zlin for the Air Force. Also designed for the European Air Tour 1934 Klemm Kl 36 was Fechers work. In 1934 he went though as a senior design engineer in the furnished upon request of the RLM new terminal branch factory in Halle, where he took the design for the twin-engine passenger aircraft Klemm Kl 104. After renaming the work in aircraft workshop (later Siebel Flugzeugwerke ) was from the Fh 104
The successor Fechers in Böblingen went to Carl Bucher, who came from the Bavarian Aircraft Works in Augsburg. He was responsible for all yet arisen during the war clamping aircraft such as Klemm Kl 105, Klemm Kl 106 and Klemm Kl 107 and for the Klemm Kl 151 and Klemm Kl 152 In the period from 1936 terminal developed a new production method in wood, the clamp - partial shell construction.
In 1943 the company was placed under state supervision and on the production of aircraft in metal ( Arado Ar 96 and finally Messerschmitt Me 163 ) were used.
Post-war period
In the summer of 1952 his son Hannsjürgen and other former members of the company Leichtflugzeugbau Klemm was in a conversation between Hanns Klemm, addresses the question of whether there should be launched on the expected in the near future repeal of the general aviation ban, the clamping aircraft again. Clamping declared himself no longer prepared because of his poor overall state to an active participation. The plan was pursued, however, and so took the middle of 1954, the group led by Hanns Jürgen Klemm talks with Ludwig Bölkow and Wolf Hirth on. In October, a preliminary agreement was reached on the establishment of a joint venture. In 1955, the revision of the rescued about the collapse of plans Kl 107 at Bölkow by the re -added Carl Bucher. The built in nabern prototype of the K 107 A first flew in the summer of 1956 with Karl Voy at the wheel. For its distribution, the clamping planes GmbH was founded by the clamping GmbH and Bölkow KG on 18 October 1957. Two years later, on 30 April 1959, Bölkow took over the clamping portions, so that production and sales from then on only when Bölkow belonging Apparatus nabern GmbH was based. The terminal planes GmbH was subsequently dissolved. With the successor model of the Kl 107, type C, the derived Bölkow 207, the terminal name finally disappeared from the list of registrations.