Ernst Zindel

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Ernst Zindel, between 1940 and 1942, with the NSDAP party badge on his lapel
The Ju 52 designed by Zindel

Ernst Zindel (born January 23, 1897 in Mistelbach , Upper Franconia ; † October 10, 1978 in Bad Homburg in front of the height ) was a German engineer and designer of the Ju 52 ("Tante Ju") in single and three-engine versions.

Life

Zindel joined the Bavarian 3rd Foot Artillery Regiment in Ingolstadt as a war volunteer in 1914 and was seriously wounded on the Western Front in 1915 . After leaving the army, Zindel started studying shipbuilding at the Technical University in Berlin . There he worked as an assistant at the chair for shipbuilding until 1920 and in 1920 passed his diploma examination in shipbuilding. Zindel was a member of the ATV Cheruscia Charlottenburg Berlin in the Academic Gymnastics Association .

On October 1, 1920, Zindel began working as a designer at Hugo Junkers' research institute . In 1925 he became head of the new design department in the design office of Junkers Flugzeugwerk AG (JFA). From 1928 Zindel led the development of the militarily sophisticated J52 aircraft, which later went down in aviation history as the Ju 52 . In 1932 Zindel became general manager of the JFA, in 1933 an authorized signatory and construction director and in 1942 a military manager . Under his leadership as chief designer, there were many new developments that gave German aircraft construction decisive impulses. The Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke dominated the development of German aviation in the following years, both in terms of flight performance and technical development.

Publications

  • Ernst Zindel: The history and development of Junkers aircraft construction from 1910 to 1945. German Society for Aviation and Space Travel, Cologne 1979.
  • Ernst Zindel et al .: Aviation pioneers: Hugo Junkers, Ferdinand Ferber, Adolf Rohrbach. German Aerospace Society, Cologne 1974.

literature

  • Old gentlemen's association of the ATB (ed.): 100 years of the Academic Gymnastics Association 1883–1983. Melsungen 1983, pp. 191-192.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bavarian Main State Archives IV ; War Tribe Roll 14987, image 123 at ancestry.com, accessed December 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Zindel, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and designer of JU 52 ("Tante JU")
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Mistelbach ( Upper Franconia )
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1978
Place of death Bad Homburg vor der Höhe