Karl Evers (engineer)
Karl Evers (March 1904 , † 1969 ) was the chief pilot engineer in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and Government Director in the Federal Ministry of Defense .
Life
Evers graduated from a technical college and became an engineer . Evers was a consultant for navigation instruments in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and supervised the development of gyro instruments . These are used in aircraft and unmanned missiles such as the "V2" . The Askania -Werke AG was licensee of the Sperry Corporation for centrifugal instruments. The Askania was looked after by Evers in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and later in the Ministry of Defense.
After 1945 Evers worked at Siemens preparing offers. In 1956 Evers became an official of the Federal Ministry of Defense. Evers was part of the Starfighter team and was in the US eight times in the late 1950s to prepare for the Starfighter purchase agreements . In the summer of 1964, orders from the Bundeswehr Air Force were placed with Sperry . The consulting engineer Peter Ehrhardt from Munich had been a Sperry lobbyist since 1961. In the summer of 1965 Ehrhardt moved to his winery on Lake Garda and his deputy Colin Richardson to London . The Sperry gyro technology had its headquarters in Munich. Rudolf Höfling managed Apparatebau Gauting , which was a subsidiary of Askania until 1955 . This company owned 50 percent of Gauting aviation equipment sales , the other half of which was held by Bendix Air Equipement , a Sperry licensee . Apparatebau Gauting received a third of the order for the Sperry SP-40 autopilot , a subcontract for the "SYP-820" gyro platform for the Fiat G.91 Y, which replaced the Sperry "CL-11" directional gyro . Apparatebau Gauting later manufactured the "C2-G" course gyro from Sperry for the Lockheed F-104 -G and the Bell 206 . The apparatus Gauting belonged to ten percent its director Rudolf courtier to 90 percent Josef "Ochsensepp" Miller and his daughter Christine Marianne.
On March 29, 1966, Evers moved from Bonn to Grafenau (Lower Bavaria) . On April 6, 1966, Evers took a telegram appointment in Bonn . It was revealed to him that it was an arrest warrant and he was accused of granting advantages .
In May 1967 Evers was sentenced to two and a half years in prison .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bribery Affair: Gladiators on the Net . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 1966 ( online ).
- ↑ Corruption: Forgot names . In: Der Spiegel . No. 23 , 1966 ( online ).
- ↑ Used to gifts . In: Die Zeit , No. 18/1967
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Evers, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aviation engineer and civil servant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1904 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1969 |