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Entwicklungsring Süd GmbH (EWR)
legal form Company with limited liability
founding 1959
resolution 1969
Reason for dissolution Merger to form Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm GmbH (MBB)
Seat Munich , Germany
Branch Aircraft manufacturer

The Entwicklungsring Süd GmbH (EWR) was a joint venture between Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugbau GmbH , Messerschmitt AG and Bölkow GmbH . The company was founded in Munich in 1959 .

Purpose of the company was the development and construction of the jet-propelled VTOL aircraft VJ 101 C .

Heinkel left the company again in 1965; the VJ 101 project was discontinued in 1968. Finally, in 1969, the EEA was merged into Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Kirchner: History of the West German airliner construction: the long way to the Airbus . Campus Verlag, 1998, ISBN 978-3-593-36140-6 ( google.de [accessed on August 10, 2017]).
  2. Hans-Michael Körner: Large Bavarian Biographical Encyclopedia . Walter de Gruyter, 2005, ISBN 978-3-11-097344-0 ( google.de [accessed on August 10, 2017]).