Fritz Gosslau

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Fritz Gosslau (born March 25, 1898 in Berlin ; † December 1, 1965 in Grünwald ) was a test engineer at the Gerhard Fieseler Works in the 1930s and was particularly known for his work in connection with the Fieseler Fi 103 (V1).

Life

Gosslau finished his engineering studies at the Technical University Berlin in 1923 with a diploma. In 1926 he received his doctorate on the subject of "Computational and experimental investigations into heat control and increased performance in air-cooled aircraft engine cylinders". At Siemens Gosslau worked on the development of aircraft engines until the 1930s and then switched to Argus Motoren Gesellschaft when Siemens stopped producing aircraft engines. At Argus, Gosslau was involved in building the Argus As 410 and As 411 aircraft engines in large-scale production and in the construction of an air-cooled engine with 24 cylinders and 3500 hp .

In early 1937, Gosslau developed proposals for remote-controlled, unmanned missiles for "special military tasks". Such a remote-controlled target aircraft completed its first flight on July 14, 1939. On November 9, 1939, Gosslau proposed the development of a motorized remote wing missile. This should have a range of several hundred kilometers and, thanks to radio navigation, a high level of accuracy. For this purpose, Gosslau took up the idea of ​​the pulsation thrust tube and, in systematic tests, brought it to series production with high reliability. From 1942 Gosslau was involved in the development of the Fieseler Fi 103 , an unmanned, explosives-laden aircraft, also known under the name V1 . The V1 was used towards the end of the Second World War against the cities of London and Antwerp, among others, and claimed victims among the civilian population there.

After the end of the war, Gosslau devoted himself to the construction of motorcycles from 1948 as chief designer at the Dürkopp company . In 1954 he moved to Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke , where he took over the development of new engines. In 1958, the engine development of the Heinkel and Messerschmitt companies was combined at Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke . From then on, Gosslau was managing director of Junkers, and after the conversion to a stock corporation, then until 1963 the technical director of the Munich company.

literature

  • Anonymous: A life for progress. Dr.-Ing. Fritz Gosslau died. In: Flugwelt International. 18 (1966), p. 197.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US patent 2382707: Device for regulating internalcombustion engines (English)
personal data
SURNAME Gosslau, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1965
Place of death Grünwald