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Henrich Focke

1890 - 1979

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Henrich Focke (8 October 1890 – 25 February 1979) was a German aviation pioneer from Bremen and also a co-founder of the Focke-Wulf company. He is best known as the inventor of the Fw 61, the first successful, practical, and fully controllable helicopter, first flown in 1936. He has been called "father of the helicopter". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henrich Focke is the 177th most popular inventor (up from 178th in 2019), the 2,187th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,156th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular German Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, Henrich Focke ranks 177 out of 426. Before him are John Ericsson, Sandford Fleming, Heinrich Göbel, Charles Cros, Uziel Gal, and Gaston Glock. After him are Émile Baudot, Artur Fischer, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Matthew Boulton, Lagâri Hasan Çelebi, and Gunther von Hagens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Henrich Focke ranks 83. Before him are Robert Stroud, Grigory Mikhaylovich Semyonov, Victoria Ocampo, Jacobus Oud, László Bárdossy, and Yoshio Nishina. After him are He Yingqin, Solomon Mikhoels, Louis Delluc, Alois Eliáš, Elizabeth Bolden, and Harry Babcock. Among people deceased in 1979, Henrich Focke ranks 75. Before him are Dhyan Chand, Charles Mingus, Stein Rokkan, Elizabeth Bishop, Darryl F. Zanuck, and Victoria Ocampo. After him are Carlo Abarth, Joseph Kessel, Dirk Stikker, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Jan de Klerk, and Santos Urdinarán.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henrich Focke ranks 2,188 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann David Heinichen (1683), William, Duke of Brunswick (1806), Adolphus Frederick III, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1686), Heinrich von Brentano (1904), Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918), and Heinrich von Plauen (1370). After him are Joachim Neander (1650), Albert Bierstadt (1830), Hermann Burmeister (1807), Hans Loritz (1895), Petra Kelly (1947), and Conradin Kreutzer (1780).

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Among INVENTORS In Germany

Among inventors born in Germany, Henrich Focke ranks 23. Before him are Hugo Schmeisser (1884), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Johann Nepomuk Maelzel (1772), Peter Henlein (1479), Heinrich Göbel (1818), and Uziel Gal (1923). After him are Artur Fischer (1919), Johann Nicolaus von Dreyse (1787), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), Johann Jacob Schweppe (1740), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), and Max Skladanowsky (1863).

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