Richard Bauer (engineer)

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Richard Bauer (* 1898 ; † 1962 ) was a German engineer who was head of the design office at the aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt in the 1930s and 1940s and who worked closely with Ludwig Bölkow after the Second World War , among other things in the development of wind turbines .

Life

His career as an engineer in aircraft construction began at Arado Flugzeugwerke . From 1929 on Richard Bauer was employed by Willy Messerschmitt as a designer, from 1933 on as head of the Augsburg-based design office for all important types up to the beginning of World War II , including the “ideal aircraft” Messerschmitt Bf 108 . Bauer then became the type manager of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft . Willy Messerschmitt retained the planning authority down to the technical details. Bauer also taught aircraft construction at the Aviation Technology School in Munich-Feldmoching from 1938.

Shortly after the Second World War, Bauer founded his own office in Augsburg and from then on worked closely with Ludwig Bölkow . In addition to a business partnership, they jointly developed technical applications, including a transducer for a mobile conveyor belt . Bauer had already started to develop a wind turbine with a single-blade rotor (diameter: 3 m) in 1945 , which came onto the market in May 1950. The interest was so great that Bauer had a small series produced; At the end of 1953, 60 of these wind turbines were in operation, including abroad. Bauer was supported by Bölkow, so that both of them formed a community for technical developments . From autumn 1954 they had a system with a 12 m single-blade rotor built at Böhler and Weber in Augsburg, which was installed in Büsum (Schleswig-Holstein) alongside other systems for regenerative energy generation for test purposes. Bauer's single-blade rotor design principle was adopted for the Bölkow Bo 102 helicopter training device and the Bölkow Bo 103 one- man helicopter . Bauer's ideas for building small wind turbines with single-bladed rotors became the model for production at MBB in the 1980s .

Richard Bauer filed a patent on rotary wing aircraft in the United States in 1955 . He died in 1962.

literature

  • Kyrill von Gersdorff: Ludwig Bölkow and his work - Ottobrunn innovations. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7637-6124-1 , see register p. 328.
  • Hans J. Ebert, Johann B. Kaiser, Klaus Peters: Willy Messerschmitt - pioneer of aviation and lightweight construction. A biography. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7637-6103-9 , short vita p. 391 and more.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans J. Ebert, Johann B. Kaiser, Klaus Peters: Willy Messerschmitt - pioneer of aviation and lightweight construction. A biography. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7637-6103-9 , p. 391.
  2. ↑ Hans J. Ebert, Johann B. Kaiser, Klaus Peters: Willy Messerschmitt - pioneer of aviation and lightweight construction. A biography. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7637-6103-9 , p. 82.
  3. ↑ Hans J. Ebert, Johann B. Kaiser, Klaus Peters: Willy Messerschmitt - pioneer of aviation and lightweight construction. A biography. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1992, ISBN 3-7637-6103-9 , p. 205.
  4. ↑ Kyrill von Gersdorff: Ludwig Bölkow and his work - Ottobrunner innovations. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7637-6124-1 , p. 29.
  5. ↑ Kyrill von Gersdorff: Ludwig Bölkow and his work - Ottobrunner innovations. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7637-6124-1 , p. 32.
  6. ↑ Kyrill von Gersdorff: Ludwig Bölkow and his work - Ottobrunner innovations. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7637-6124-1 , pp. 34, 132, 135, 137.
  7. ↑ Kyrill von Gersdorff: Ludwig Bölkow and his work - Ottobrunner innovations. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7637-6124-1 , p. 255.
  8. ↑ Kyrill von Gersdorff: Ludwig Bölkow and his work - Ottobrunner innovations. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1987, ISBN 3-7637-6124-1 , p. 133.
personal data
SURNAME Bauer, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer and aircraft designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1898
DATE OF DEATH 1962