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Hellmuth Walter

1900 - 1980

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Hellmuth Walter (26 August 1900 – 16 December 1980) was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines. His most noteworthy contributions were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163: 174  and Bachem Ba 349 interceptor aircraft, so-called Starthilfe jettisonable rocket propulsion units used for a variety of Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II, and a revolutionary new propulsion system for submarines known as air-independent propulsion (AIP). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hellmuth Walter is the 148th most popular engineer (up from 173rd in 2019), the 2,861st most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,008th in 2019) and the 19th most popular German Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hellmuth Walter ranks 148 out of 389. Before him are Pierre-Émile Martin, J. Walter Christie, Georges Leclanché, Vitaly Abalakov, Franz Reuleaux, and John Scott Russell. After him are Marc Seguin, Sherif Ismail, Mikhail Yangel, Walter Hohmann, Gabriel Voisin, and Giuseppe Colombo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Hellmuth Walter ranks 141. Before him are Leo Löwenthal, Xavier Cugat, Aristidis Konstantinidis, Carola Neher, Mary Cartwright, and Victor Kugler. After him are Antun Augustinčić, Johanna Wolf, Victor Young, Manuel Fleitas Solich, Isaak Dunayevsky, and Richard Hughes. Among people deceased in 1980, Hellmuth Walter ranks 117. Before him are Toyen, Mohammed Rafi, Pietro Nenni, Erich Hückel, Hiroshi Inagaki, and Leopold Kielholz. After him are Ahmad Shukeiri, Dixie Dean, Gerhard Hanappi, Boun Oum, Justas Paleckis, and Gastone Nencini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hellmuth Walter ranks 2,863 out of 7,253. Before him are Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (1659), William, Prince of Wied (1845), Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875), Eric Braeden (1941), Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1679), and Helene Mayer (1910). After him are Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884), Paul Freiherr von Eltz-Rübenach (1875), İlkay Gündoğan (1990), Karin Balzer (1938), Willi Graf (1918), and Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg (1735).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Hellmuth Walter ranks 19. Before him are John A. Roebling (1806), Erich Topp (1914), Alexander Lippisch (1894), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), Claude Dornier (1884), and Franz Reuleaux (1829). After him are Walter Hohmann (1880), Anton Flettner (1885), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), Hugo Eckener (1868), Peter Hirsch (1925), and Gustave Whitehead (1874).

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