Hans Wocke (aircraft designer)

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Hans Wocke (born August 2, 1908 in Danzig , † after 1967) was a German aircraft designer. He was involved in the construction of the first German jet airliner 152 and the first series-built West German jet airliner HFB 320 Hansa Jet .

life and career

Wocke studied shipbuilding in Breslau and graduated with a degree in engineering .

In 1934 he joined the Junkers factory , where he worked in the design office. Together with August-Wilhelm Quick, he designed different versions of the Ju 88 . From 1938 Wocke took over the design work on the Ju 288 until the project was discontinued in 1943.

After the end of the Second World War he was chief project engineer at Brunolf Baade . Together with numerous other Junkers employees, he was taken to Podberesje near Moscow as part of the Ossawakim campaign , where he worked on the EF 131, which had been developed from the Ju 287 , with negative swept wings and around 20 other aircraft.

After returning to the GDR , Wocke became head of the design office and the accounting department at the Elbe Flugzeugwerke in Dresden . In this role he played a leading role in the design of the 152, 153 , 154 and 160 aircraft .

Even before the 152's maiden flight, Wocke left the GDR in 1957. As chief engineer at Hamburger Flugzeugbau , he developed the unrealized HFB 314 and the HFB 320 Hansa Jet. The HFB 320 had negative swept wings, which is largely due to Wocke's experience with the Ju 287 and its derivatives. In 1967 he was the first technical director of what was then Deutsche Airbus GmbH.

literature

  • Holger Lorenz: Das Turbinenflugzeug Dresden-153A from 1959. Self-published, Marienberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816919-6-2 , p. 20

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.welt.de: A flight of fancy after a missed great moment, April 10, 2001, accessed on April 29, 2016
  2. ↑ www.spiegel.de: Ju von der Elbe, November 27, 1963, accessed on April 29, 2016
  3. ↑ HFB 320 on hansa-jet.de, accessed on April 29, 2016 ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Projects of the Hamburger Flugzeugwerke on the HAW Hamburg website , accessed on May 1, 2017
  5. ↑ https://mercedes-benz-publicarchive.com/marsClassic/de/instance/ko/Gruendung-der-Deutschen-Airbus-GmbH-in-Hamburg.xhtml?oid=4912474
personal data
SURNAME Wocke, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aircraft designer
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Danzig
DATE OF DEATH after 1967