Nakajima Chikuhei

Nakajima Chikuhei

Nakajima Chikuhei ( Japanese 中 島 知 久 平 ; born January 1, 1884 in Ojima (尾 島村), Nitta County (新 田 郡), Gunma Prefecture ; died October 29, 1949 ) was a Japanese naval officer, aircraft manufacturer, and politician.

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Nakajima Chikuhei, who comes from a rural family, graduated from marine engineering school. He served in the Navy until 1917, then built a "research facility for aircraft" (飛行 機 研究所, Hikōki Kenkyūjo). This later became the “Nakajima Aircraft AG” (中 島 飛行 機 株式会社, Nakajima Hikōki KK), which built military aircraft and the engines for the fighter “Zero-sen” .

1930 Nakajima was elected in the five-seat constituency Gunma 1 for the Rikken Seiyūkai in the House of Representatives, the lower house of parliament , and then re-elected four times. When the Seiyūkai split up in 1939, he led the "progressive / reformist faction" ( 革新 派 kakushin-ha ), the more state-capitalist-militarist current in contrast to the more market-liberal-constitutionalist "orthodox / traditional faction" ( 正統 派 seitō-ha ) the Seiyūkai around Kuhara Fusanosuke and Hatoyama Ichirō . He worked from 1937 to 1939 as Minister of Railways in the Konoe I cabinet and in the short-lived Higashikuni cabinet as the last Minister of Munitions, then as Minister of Industry and Trade.

After Nakajima's death in 1950, the aircraft company was transformed into 12 independent companies, of which 5 later merged to form Fuji Heavy Industries , to which the automobile company Subaru belongs.

Remarks

1. ↑ Today the district of Ōta (Gunma) .

literature

• S. Noma (Ed.): Nakajima Chikuhei . In: Japan. An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha, 1993, ISBN 4-06-205938-X , p. 1038.

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Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Nakajima is the family name, Chikuhei the first name.