Heinrich Luebbe

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heinrich Lübbe, 1912

Heinrich Friedrich August Lübbe (born January 12, 1884 in Nienburg ad Weser , † March 14, 1940 in Berlin ) was a German mechanical engineer and inventor .

biography

Heinrich Lübbe joined the German merchant navy after completing his apprenticeship as a watchmaker . There he began training in mechanical engineering, but an accident ended his military career.

In the Dutch city of Utrecht, Lübbe and Ernst Wulff had been running the “Flora” cinema since December 1909 and engaged in precision mechanical and optical experiments.

In 1911 Lübbe returned to Germany and began training as a pilot at the Rumpler Werke in Johannisthal . He passed his flight test on November 6th on an Etrich-Rumpler monoplane and acquired the German FAI patent No. 134 - he is thus considered an old eagle . In January 1913, he broke the world speed record for the 250-kilometer route between Montevideo and Buenos Aires with a Rumpler-Werke aircraft .

Due to a lung disease, Lübbe ended his aviation career in 1913 and started working for the Dutch aircraft manufacturer Fokker in Schwerin. During the First World War , Lübbe and Kurt Heber developed the interrupter gearbox for the Fokkerwerke , with which one could shoot through the propeller circle with a machine gun . Lübbe became Fokker's weapons specialist and was operations manager in his Reinickendorfer aircraft weapons factory from 1916.

After the First World War, Lübbe ran a "research institute for weapons and mechanical engineering" in Berlin. There, between 1919 and 1925, he developed patents for lifting devices, propellers, but also optical sights and weapons.

In November 1925 Heinrich Lübbe and Felix Wagenführ took over the Arado aircraft works in Warnemünde . With the financing of front men and orders for the secret air armament, the “Arado Flugzeugwerke” has been economically dependent on the Reich Ministry of Transport since its foundation. While Lübbe was promoting the secret development of new weapon systems for the Reichswehr in his private estate in Grunewald and working again with engineer Kurt Heber, he began to withdraw capital from the Arado company during the economic crisis. This and his refusal to join the NSDAP caused differences with the management and the ministry. In 1935 Lübbe was arrested and placed under house arrest after his release. His company shares were bought on April 25, 1936 by Luftfahrtkontor GmbH .

tomb

After the expropriation, Lübbe worked as a weapons expert for various companies. On the morning of March 14, 1940, at the age of 56, he died of pneumonia that he contracted while on a business trip. Heinrich Lübbe was buried in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

literature

  • Jörg Armin Kranzhoff: Fokker DR I. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01514-5 .
  • Jörg Armin Kranzhoff: Arado - history of an aircraft factory. Aviatic Verlag, Oberhaching 1995, ISBN 3-925505-27-X .
  • Jörg Armin Kranzhoff: Edmund Rumpler - pioneer of industrial aviation. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 2004, ISBN 3-7637-6127-6
  • Volker Koos: Arado Flugzeugwerke 1925–1945. Heel Verlag, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-728-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Bähr: The aviation loans and the relations to the Junkers group. In: Klaus-Dietmar Henke (Hrsg.): The Dresdner Bank in the economy of the Third Reich . Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57780-8 , p. 391.
personal data
SURNAME Luebbe, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lübbe, Heinrich Friedrich August (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mechanical engineer and inventor
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg ad Weser
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1940
Place of death Berlin