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Johannes Winkler

1897 - 1947

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Johannes Winkler (29 May 1897 – 27 December 1947) was a German rocket pioneer who co-founded with Max Valier of Opel RAK the first German rocket society "Verein für Raumschiffahrt" and launched, after Friedrich Wilhelm Sander's successful Opel RAK liquid-rocket launches in 1929, one of the first successful liquid-fuelled rocket in Europe. In 1915 during World War I, he joined the German army and was wounded in action the following year, leading to a lengthy hospitalisation. After his recovery, he studied as a machinist at the Danzig technical college and found a job at Junkers. On 5 July 1927, he was one of the founders the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR – "Spaceflight Society"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Winkler is the 229th most popular engineer (up from 253rd in 2019), the 822nd most popular biography from Poland (up from 885th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Polish Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Johannes Winkler ranks 229 out of 389. Before him are Robert Mallet, James B. Francis, Johann Georg Halske, Eugène Belgrand, Anousheh Ansari, and Seymour Cray. After him are Georgy Beriev, Benoît Fourneyron, Enrico Forlanini, Béla Barényi, Jon Postel, and Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Johannes Winkler ranks 191. Before him are Maximilian von Edelsheim, Ilya Ilf, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Lya De Putti. After him are Héctor Méndez, Evsei Liberman, Werner Voss, Douglas Hartree, Zenta Mauriņa, and Lya Mara. Among people deceased in 1947, Johannes Winkler ranks 144. Before him are Elias Katz, Emil Racoviță, Felix Timmermans, Émile Auguste Joseph De Wildeman, Richard Heidrich, and Fyodor Dan. After him are Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Urban Gad, Maxwell Perkins, Max Berg, José Pardo y Barreda, and Eugène Lanti.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Johannes Winkler ranks 822 out of 1,694. Before him are Konrad Krajewski (1963), Józef Oleksy (1946), Frederick II of Legnica (1480), Ryszard Kukliński (1930), Anna Maria Jopek (1970), and Max Fleischer (1883). After him are Rudolph Maté (1898), Ida Siekmann (1902), Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920), Werner Olk (1938), Alfred Stock (1876), and Zbigniew Oleśnicki (1389).

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Among ENGINEERS In Poland

Among engineers born in Poland, Johannes Winkler ranks 7. Before him are Wernher von Braun (1912), Hans Kammler (1901), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Józef Bem (1794), Kurt Tank (1898), and Henryk Dembiński (1791). After him are Walter Thiel (1910), Konstantin Kalinin (1887), and Boris Chertok (1912).

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