Hirth engines
The Hirth Motoren GmbH was a 1927 by Hellmuth Hirth in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen based company that deals with the production of piston engines for aircraft employed.
history
For his first design, the Hirth HM 60 , Hirth decided on an air-cooled design with a multi-part crankshaft , the parts of which were joined together with Hirth gears . This engine and its successor, the HM 60R, were economically successful.
The administration building was located on Schwieberdingerstraße at the corner of Lorenzstraße.
From 1934 a number of aircraft engines with four to twelve cylinders, the Hirth HM 504 , HM 506 , HM 508 and HM 512, were produced . After Hellmuth Hirth's death, the company was taken over by Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke in 1938 . From 1938 a new series was created with the Hirth HM 500 , the HM 501 and the HM 515 . Around 10,000 engines had been produced by the end of World War II . At this time Heinkel used forced laborers under the bad, often fatal conditions that were common at the time.
After the end of the war, the company became independent again and relocated to Benningen am Neckar . The plant manufactured small engines there until it was liquidated in 1974.
The production rights were taken over by Hans Göbler in 1974; the company was renamed Göbler-Hirth Motoren .
swell
- Hans Giger: piston aircraft engines. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-613-01089-5 , pp. 95f.
- ↑ "Reminiscences of the Swabian Edison" , Stuttgarter Zeitung, 2018
- ↑ "Remembrance of Murdered Forced Laborers" , Stuttgarter Zeitung, 2016
