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Gerhard Fieseler

1896 - 1987

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Gerhard Fieseler (15 April 1896 – 1 September 1987) was a German World War I flying ace, aerobatics champion, and aircraft designer and manufacturer. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gerhard Fieseler is the 264th most popular engineer (up from 276th in 2019), the 4,365th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,471st in 2019) and the 31st most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gerhard Fieseler ranks 264 out of 389Before him are Ransom E. Olds, Gioacchino Colombo, Sam Eyde, Nikolay Kamov, Pierre Cérésole, and Paul Mauser. After him are Frederick W. Lanchester, Konstantin Kalinin, Alexander Mikulin, Aron Ralston, Ernest Goüin, and Albert Auguste Perdonnet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Gerhard Fieseler ranks 195Before him are William Gopallawa, Ivan Merz, Sofya Yanovskaya, Arthur Tell Schwab, Kim Iryeop, and Art Langley. After him are Kim Myeong-sun, Heinz Prüfer, Marion Zinderstein, Walter Lang, Firaq Gorakhpuri, and Ruben Lagus. Among people deceased in 1987, Gerhard Fieseler ranks 163Before him are Jacob Taubes, J. Lawton Collins, Gerardo Diego, Yūjirō Ishihara, Gioacchino Colombo, and Petro Grigorenko. After him are Ethel Catherwood, František Šafránek, James Jesus Angleton, Leabua Jonathan, Solomana Kante, and Alf Landon.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gerhard Fieseler ranks 4,367 out of 7,253Before him are Josef Bradl (1918), Otto von Münchhausen (1716), Josef Gauchel (1916), Kito Lorenc (1938), Reinhold Begas (1831), and Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg (1584). After him are Käthe Krauss (1906), Elfriede Kaun (1914), Christian Gotthilf Salzmann (1744), Günter Bernard (1939), Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1570), and Heinrich von Sybel (1817).

Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Gerhard Fieseler ranks 31Before him are Gustave Whitehead (1874), Franz Grashof (1826), Johann Georg Halske (1814), Arthur Rudolph (1906), Ferdinand Mannlicher (1848), and Paul Mauser (1838). After him are Oskar von Miller (1855), Friedrich L. Bauer (1924), Christopher Cockerell (1910), Wilhelm Nusselt (1882), Peter Schreyer (1953), and Mario Theissen (1952).