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Widely known for his frequent collaborations with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, a creative partnership which lasted 10 years and produced over 20 films, Ulli Lommel is one of the most consistently creative filmmakers to come from the New German Cinema movement.
The son of German comic performer Ludwig Manfred Lommel, Ulli Lommel began his career in show business as a child. His second feature film as a director Tenderness of the Wolves (1973) brought Lommel to New York, where he began working with Andy Warhol at The Factory. The Warhol / Lommel years spawned several features, including Cocaine Cowboys (1979) and Blank Generation (1980), both of which were directed by Lommel and feature Warhol in an acting role.
In the summer of 2013 Lommel went for nine months to Brazil, where he wrote a book and also made a film about Campo Bahia, the official camp for the German National Soccer Team. His autobiography, entitled Tenderness of the Wolves, is due out in late 2015.- Writer
- Actor
- Music Department
Born 1929 in Germany as son of a surrealist painter who was banned by the Nazis in 1936. Went to Waldorf-school and deserted when he was called to the army at age of 16 in 1945. After the war he became an actor, critic and finally writer. His first big success was the children's book "Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivfuehrer" (Jim Knopf and Lukas the Engine-driver). Although he got much praise and many awards he remained modest, almost shy, preferring his fantasy world but still keeping an eye on the real world in his stories.- Watson Davis, born William Davis, was an actor, television horror host and an entertainer.
From "Find a Grave" memorial "Davis was an advertising director for the Memphis, Tennessee, based Malco Theatre chain in 1963 where he first came up with the character of "Sivad" (Davis spelled backwards). He donned a cape, cane, top hat and false vampire teeth to become the local "Monster of Ceremonies" for the WHBQ-TV weekly horror program "Fantastic Features." The Saturday evening show debuted September 1962 and showed old horror and science fiction movies.
The show began with "Sivad" driving a horse-drawn hearse (in a foggy Overton Park near the Brooks Art Gallery in Memphis, Tennessee), pulling a coffin from the back of the hearse and then opening it all to the strains of Leigh Stevens' score from the 1950 science fiction film "Destination Moon."
Savid made many personal appearances around the Mid-South in the 1960s and 1970s drawing an estimated 30,000 fans at an appearance at the Mid-South Fairgrounds in 1963. At these appearances he would play several musical instruments including the "ghoulaphone" and the "coffinola," both instruments Davis concocted. He made several novelty records including "Sivad buries Rock & Roll" which features "Dickey Drakeller" on it's flip side".
He was married to Kathryn Irene Crabtree who passed away in 1970. - Actor
- Director
Theodor Loos was born on 18 May 1883 in Zwingenberg, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor and director, known for M (1931), Metropolis (1927) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). He died on 27 June 1954 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Erich Ponto was born on 14 December 1884 in Lübeck [now Schleswig-Holstein], Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for The Third Man (1949), Sky Without Stars (1955) and Schneider Wibbel (1939). He was married to Tony Kresse. He died on 4 February 1957 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Dieter Eppler was born on 11 February 1927 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for Face of the Frog (1959), Tatort (1970) and Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried (1966). He was married to Magdalene Schnaitmann. He died on 12 April 2008 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Friedrich Feher was born on 16 March 1889 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and actor, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Robber Symphony (1936) and William Tell (1913). He was married to Magda Sonja. He died on 30 September 1950 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Additional Crew
Lucie Marie Rommel was born on 6 May 1894 in Germany. She is known for The Longest Day (1962). She was married to Erwin Rommel. She died on 26 September 1971 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Hermine Sterler was born on 20 March 1894 in Bad Cannstatt [now Stuttgart], Germany. She was an actress, known for Te quiero con locura (1935), Little Mother (1935) and Rasputin, Demon with Women (1932). She died on 25 May 1982 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Adelheid Seeck was born on 3 November 1912 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Teufel in Seide (1956), The Rest Is Silence (1959) and Der letzte Zeuge (1960). She died on 17 February 1973 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Alfred Neubauer, born in Neutitschein in 1891, was the only son of a furniture-maker and as he grew up he developed a deep fondness for motors and racing cars, becoming with the years the manager of the Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix racing team from 1926 to 1955 with its famed Silver Arrow cars. While serving in the Austrian Army he started repairing military vehicles, and after WWI joined the Austro-Daimler, where Ferdinand Porsche named him chief tester. He drove in races until in 1926 he changed to racing team manager. This new job consisted in giving information to his pilots during the race using hand signs, flags and boards. Soon the Mercedes-Benz team got advantage over their rivals, specially after Mercedes launched the Silberpfeil (Silver Arrow) design. During the 30s the Silver Arrows were often driven by Rudolf Caracciola, Hermann Lang, Manfred von Brauchitsch and Richard Seaman (as a curiosity, the first three briefly appear together in The Stars Shine (1938) ). Each season Neubauer used to contract some foreign pilot, thus Fagioli, Chiron and Seaman enlarged the successful Mercedes-Benz mainly German team. In 1954 the design of the 300 model was adapted into a new racing car, the Mercedes-Benz 300SL, a model which would bring many victories in Grand Prix races, improving by far the pre-war model. Juan Manuel Fangio was under Neubauer's guidance World Champion in 1954 and 1955. Then in 1955 one of the team pilots, Pierre Levegh, had a terrible accident going over the fences onto the crowd and killing more than 80 people, Mercedes withdrew from racing and Neubauer retired from them too. He would remain in charge of Mercedes private drivers' section, training young drivers. He died in Stuttgart in August 1980.
- She grew up in Tuttlingen as the fourth of seven children in a Protestant pastor's family. Her father, Helmut Ensslin, had studied in Tübingen and was in the "Normannia" fraternity there the fraternity brother of Kurt Rebmann, who later became Federal Prosecutor General, who in this position became Gudrun Ensslin's executive "opponent". In 1960 she graduated from a Catholic school. She then studied English, German and pedagogy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 1960 to 1964 and later at the Free University of Berlin. Meanwhile, in 1963, together with the political writer Bernward Vesper, she founded the small publishing house "Studio for New Literature", which, however, only published publications.
In 1967, their son Felix Robert Ensslin was born from her relationship with Vesper. Like Ulrike Meinhof, Ensslin was a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. Involved in the student unrest of the late 1960s, Ensslin became increasingly involved in the extra-parliamentary opposition and wrote left-wing agitational writings. After the student Benno Ohnesorg was shot by a police officer during the Shah of Persia's visit to Berlin on June 2, 1967, she called for "violence against a violent state" in the office of the Socialist German Student Association. Meanwhile, it is believed that she made the acquaintance of Andreas Baader, who had gone underground.
The ideas of both should escalate into militant actions. Their willingness to use violence was directed, on the one hand, against the conservative Axel Springer publishing house, which sharply criticized the student activities, and, on the other hand, against the affluent society. After arsons in department stores on April 2, 1968, Ensslin was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison along with Andreas Baader, Thorwald Proll and Horst Söhnlein. The verdict became final in November 1969, whereupon Ensslin escaped arrest and fled to France with Andreas Baader. In 1970 he returned to the Federal Republic.
This was where she first came into contact with the Hamburg journalist Ulrike Meinhof, who in turn spoke out vehemently against the omnipotence of the state with the left-wing publication "konkret". Further contacts with like-minded people such as Holger Meins and Jan-Carl Raspe arose in the early 1970s. On May 14, 1970, Gudrun Ensslin, together with Ulrike Meinhof, organized the liberation of Andreas Baader, who had now been re-imprisoned, from prison. The Baader liberation is considered the birth of the "Baader-Meinhof Group". After bank robberies, they traveled to Jordan together with Holger Meins, Baader and Meinhof to join Palestinian guerrillas with other sympathizers, who trained them with weapons for their further actions.
In 1972 they returned to Germany again and, as the "Red Army Faction", took responsibility for terrorist attacks in May, which they carried out in Augsburg, Hamburg as well as in Karlsruhe and at the US Army headquarters in Heidelberg, in which four people were killed came. Gudrun Ensslin was arrested in Hamburg on June 7, 1972. Gudrun Ensslin was imprisoned in the high-security wing of the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. The following years of negotiations were conducted in a purpose-built armored building, which was specially built for twelve million DM, right next to the grounds of the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. On April 28, 1977, after almost two years of trial, the RAF prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment.
On September 5, 1977, the RAF responded to the verdict by kidnapping Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations. The RAF now demanded that the Federal Republic release Baader and eleven other members who were in custody. The demand was that each of them should receive 100,000 DM and be flown out of Germany. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to the demand and made it clear: "The Federal Republic of Germany cannot be blackmailed." On October 13, 1977, four Arab terrorists hijacked the Lufthansa plane "Landshut" on the flight from Mallorca to Frankfurt with a new destination of Mogadishu. There were 82 passengers and 5 crew members on board the "Landshut".
The Arab kidnappers thus joined the RAF and demanded the release of the RAF members imprisoned in Germany. On October 18, 1977, a special unit of the Federal Border Guard succeeded in a spectacular operation to free the hostages on the tarmac of Mogadishu Airport (Somalia). Just a few hours later, Gudrun Ensslin, Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe committed suicide after years of solitary confinement in the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. All efforts of the police's attempts to find and free Hanns-Martin Schleyer were unsuccessful. On October 19, 1977, Hanns-Martin Schleyer was found dead in the trunk of a car.
Gudrun Ensslin was buried together with his two fellow prisoners Baader and Raspe in the Dornhaldenfriedhof in Stuttgart. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Marcel Wittrisch was born on 1 October 1901 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium. He was an actor, known for Once There Was a Waltz (1932), Liebeskommando (1931) and Handsome Gigolo, Poor Gigolo (1930). He died on 2 June 1955 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Dietz Werner was born in Waiblingen in Baden-Wuerttemberg. His grandfather Caspar Alberti was an actor in Nuremberg. This animated Dietz Werner at an early age to imitate his fellow human beings especially the local pharmacist which made it difficult for the family to get medicine at the only pharmacy. He went to Rudolf Steiner School where his artistic gifts were encouraged and his desire to become an actor grew. After his three-year training in Stuttgart his first engagement led him to Lueneburg. Engagements at the Wuerttemberg national theatre Stuttgart followed where he remained for more than 30 years. He played the whole spectrum from classical to modern, large and small roles. There Swabian author Felix Huby saw him on stage and had found the personification of his famed Stuttgart superintendent Bientzle. Since 1990 Dietz Werner does two episodes of "Tatort - Superindendent Bientzle" a year. Now also different television offers came pouring in. However, Steck remained faithful to the theatre and played the "Goetz of Berlichingen" at the original setting in Jagsthausen. In Stuttgart he performed in Moliere's "The Miser" as "Entaklemmer" (Swabian title) in his best Swabian dialect. In best Saxonian dialect he played composer Richard Wagner at the premiere of the musical "Ludwig II" in Fuessen/Bavaria. Presently he performs on stage in Stuttgart at the "Komoedie im Marquardt" with Walter Schultheiss in Felix Huby's play "Gruess Gott Herr Minischter" until March 2005. He lives with his wife Hannah in Stuttgart.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hans Helmut Dickow was born on 14 April 1927 in Dresden, Germany. He was an actor, known for Fraggle Rock (1983), Ein Sommer - ein Herbst (1964) and Der Arzt wider Willen (1964). He died on 18 December 1989 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Mario Masini was born on 28 January 1938 in Savona, Liguria, Italy. He was a cinematographer and director, known for O Herói (2004), The 10th Victim (1965) and Virgin Margarida (2012). He died on 13 March 2023 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Ortrud Beginnen was born on 5 February 1938 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for One or the Other (1974), The Castle (1997) and Geierwally (1986). She died on 19 January 1999 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Ilse Künkele was born on 25 April 1925 in Stuttgart, Germany. She was an actress, known for Sherlock Holmes (1967), Abschied vier Uhr früh (1967) and Die Sache mit dem Ring (1961). She died on 24 April 1992 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Kurt Buecheler was born on 7 July 1915 in Frankfurt, Main, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Fall Rohrbach (1963), Amerika oder der Verschollene (1969) and Die Zoogeschichte (1963). He died on 21 June 2004 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Wolfgang Windgassen was born on 26 June 1914 in Annemasse, Haute Savoie, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Army of Thieves (2021), Parole de flic (1985) and Die Fledermaus (1972). He was married to Lore Wissmann. He died on 8 September 1974 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Andreas Baader was born on 6 May 1943 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. He died on 18 October 1977 in Stammheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Art Director
- Director
- Animation Department
Heinz Edelmann was born on 20 June 1934 in Ústí nad Labem, Czechoslovakia. He was an art director and director, known for Yellow Submarine (1968), Schaumagazin (1966) and Der phantastische Film (1970). He was married to Anna. He died on 21 July 2009 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Grete Wurm was born on 8 June 1919 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany. She was an actress, known for Diese Drombuschs (1983), Celestina (1967) and Die Reisegesellschaft (1968). She died on 28 March 2002 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Wilhelm Hauff was born on 29 November 1802 in Stuttgart, Duchy of Württemberg, Holy Roman Empire [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]. He was a writer, known for Othello (1918), Das Wirtshaus im Spessart (1958) and Das kalte Herz (1930). He was married to Luise. He died on 18 November 1827 in Stuttgart, Kingdom of Württemberg [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany].- Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
Gil Alkabetz was born on 2 December 1957 in Kibbutz Mash'abey Sade, Israel. Gil was a director and writer, known for Morir de amor (2005), Ein sonniger Tag (2007) and Rubicon (1997). Gil was married to Nurit Israeli. Gil died on 15 September 2022 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Fritz Hartnagel was born on 4 February 1917 in Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was married to Elisabeth Hartnagel. He died on 29 April 2001 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Friederike Sailer was born on 20 February 1920 in Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany. He was an actor, known for Mommy (2014), Die Schelminnen (1961) and Ende gut, alles gut (1959). He was married to Gerd Albrecht. He died in June 1994 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- Albert Bozenhard was born on 14 February 1860 in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg [now Germany]. He was an actor and writer, known for Eine tolle Wette auf dem Imperator (1913), Downfall (1923) and Temperamental Artist (1920). He was married to Karli Bozenhard-Hücker. He died on 13 January 1939 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Oscar Mueller was born in Stuttgart. Before he became an actor he had trained as a banker. From 1940 - 1945 he was in the army. After WW II he took acting lessons with Rudolf Ferchau. In 1946 first acting appearances in the "Stuttgart Wilhelma Theatre" and the "Komoedie im Marquardt". In 1948 Oscar Mueller's career with the South German broadcast began which lasted for more than 50 years. Apart from his television and broadcasting activities he started a career as a successful singer of songs in the Swabian dialect although he always said he could not sing.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Erwin Lehn was born on 8 June 1919 in Grünstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He was an actor, known for My Best Friend's Girl (2008), The Three Stooges (2012) and Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011). He was married to Lydia. He died on 20 March 2010 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Albrecht Goes was born on 22 March 1908 in Langenbeutingen, Württemberg, Germany. He was a writer, known for The Restless Night (1958), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Unruhige Nacht (1955). He was married to Elisabeth Schneider. He died on 23 February 2000 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Hans Mahnke was born on 22 April 1905 in Stralsund, Germany. He was an actor, known for Der Besuch der alten Dame (1959), Es kommt ein Tag (1950) and Der eingebildete Kranke (1960). He died on 29 May 1978 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Martha Mödl was born on 22 March 1912 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950), Omnibus (1952) and Arabella (1977). She died on 17 December 2001 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Ferdinand Porsche was born on 3 September 1875 in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Vratislavice nad Nisou, Liberec, Czech Republic]. He was married to Aloisia Johanna Kaes. He died on 30 January 1951 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Hans-Werner Kirchner was born in 1908 in Oberhausen, Germany. He was an actor, known for In den Schluchten des Balkan (1960), Der Ölprinz (1961) and Hadschi Halef Omar (1959). He died in 1965 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- After having passed his final secondary school exams at the Karlsgymnasium in Stuttgart, Oscar Heiler began a training in book trade. In 1928 he started his career as an actor at the Stuttgarter Schauspielhaus. Together with his famous Swabian colleague Willy Reichert he started performing their play "Häberle and Pfleiderer" about two Swabians gossipping in 1930. This made him well-known even outside Swabia and brought him several appearances on German TV.
He is buried in Bad Cannstantt on the "Uff-Cemetery - Manfred Rommel was born on 24 December 1928 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for Kirche zu verkaufen (1979), Dalli Dalli (1971) and Day of Days: June 6, 1944 (2014). He was married to Liselotte Daiber. He died on 7 November 2013 in Stuttgart, Germany.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Fred Engelen was born on 20 December 1912 in Antwerpen, Flanders, Belgium. He was a director and actor, known for A Nice Case (1941), Goeie morgen, Bill (1961) and Sterfgeval in de familie (1960). He was married to Tine Balder. He died on 3 December 1967 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Animation Department
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Albrecht Roser was born on 21 May 1922 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. He was an actor, known for Robbi, Tobbi und das Fliewatüüt (1972), Schaukelstuhl (1972) and Flimmer-Telebox (1962). He was married to Wiltrud Gebhardt. He died on 17 April 2011 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Ulrike Meinhof was born on 7 October 1934 in Oldenburg in Oldenburg, Germany. She was a writer, known for Sofronismos (2012), Bambule (1970) and Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (1967). She was married to Klaus Rainer Röhl. She died on 8 May 1976 in Stammheim, Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Käthe Lindenberg was born on 16 July 1906 in Breslau, Silesia, Germany. She was an actress, known for Das Duell (1964), Feuerwerk (1955) and Die spanische Fliege (1966). She died on 15 December 1980 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Bruno Hoffman was born on 17 September 1913 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was an actor, known for Interlude (1968), Hors-la-loi (1985) and Attention, les enfants regardent (1978). He died on 11 April 1991 in Stuttgart, Germany.- Nobert Beilharz was born on 27 August 1939 in Haifa, Palestine. He was a director and writer, known for Lux aeterna - Claudio Abbado bei den Proben von Verdis Missa da Requiem (1986), Bratkartoffeln inbegriffen (1967) and Hosenrollen bei Händel, Mozart und Strauss (2006). He died on 21 April 2019 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Walter Hallstein was born on 17 November 1901 in Mainz, Germany. He died on 29 March 1982 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Jan-Carl Raspe grew up as the son of a factory owner in East Berlin. The father died the year he was born. From 1961 he lived with relatives in West Berlin. In 1963 he graduated from school with a high school diploma. He then studied chemistry and later sociology at the Free University. He completed his studies with a diploma. In 1971 Raspe joined the Red Army Faction. In 1972, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin returned to Germany from their exile and, as the "Red Army Faction", assumed responsibility for terrorist attacks in May, which they carried out in Augsburg, Hamburg, Karlsruhe and at the US Army headquarters in Heidelberg.
Raspe, who had taken part in the preparations and implementation, was arrested on June 1, 1972 together with Andreas Baader and Holger Meins in Frankfurt am Main and sentenced to life imprisonment on April 28, 1977, after almost two years of trial and 192 days of trial . The trial took place in a purpose-built armored building that was specially built for twelve million DM, right next to the grounds of the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. Raspe was then imprisoned in Cologne-Ossendorf and later in Stuttgart-Stammheim.
On September 5, 1977, the RAF responded to the verdict by kidnapping Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations. The RAF now demanded that the Federal Republic release Baader and eleven other members who were in custody. The demand was that each of them should receive 100,000 DM and be flown out of Germany. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt refused to give in to the demand and made it clear: "The Federal Republic of Germany cannot be blackmailed." On October 13, 1977, four Arab terrorists hijacked the Lufthansa plane "Landshut" on the flight from Mallorca to Frankfurt with a new destination of Mogadishu. There were 82 passengers and 5 crew members on board the "Landshut".
The Arab kidnappers thus joined the RAF and demanded the release of the RAF members imprisoned in Germany. On October 18, 1977, a special unit of the Federal Border Guard succeeded in a spectacular operation to free the hostages on the tarmac of Mogadishu Airport (Somalia). Just a few hours later, Jan-Carl Raspe, Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin committed suicide after years of solitary confinement in the Stuttgart-Stammheim prison. All police efforts to find and free Hanns-Martin Schleyer were unsuccessful. On October 19, 1977, Hanns-Martin Schleyer was found dead in the trunk of a car.
Jan-Carl Raspe was buried together with his two fellow prisoners Baader and Ensslin in the Dornhaldenfriedhof in Stuttgart. - Achim Glück was an actor, known for The Founder (2012) and Kanal Telemedial (2007). He died on 15 November 2018 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Willi Hoss was born on 27 April 1929 in Vaals, Limburg, Netherlands. He was married to Heidemarie Rohwedder. He died on 20 February 2003 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- After training as a mechanical engineer, Ernst Heinrich Henkel began building his own aircraft in Frankfurt am Main. In 1911 he survived a crash with the first self-built airplane. In 1912 he was hired by the airline "LVG" as an engineer. As chief designer of the "Albatros Works", he earned great recognition in 1914 with the development of the "B II", which was used in the First World War. In the same year he moved to the "Hansa Brandenburg Works", for which he designed numerous seaplanes. In 1922 he founded the "Ernst Heinkel Flugzeugwerke" in Warnemünde. Together with the Imperial Japanese Navy, Heinkel developed a light reconnaissance aircraft that could be launched from ships using a catapult. He also designed a variety of new types of aircraft, such as the first European high-speed airliner in 1932, the "He 70", which became known as the "Heinkel-Blitz".
After Aldolf Hitler came to power, Heinkel, as a member of the NSDAP, concentrated again on building military aircraft. The "He 111", which was initially designed for civilian purposes, began its service early on as a transporter for the Reich Air Force. In 1937 he was appointed military economic leader by Adolf Hitler. In the same year, 1937, Heinkel broke the international aircraft speed record with the "He 119". Heinkel, along with Fritz Todt, Ferdinand Porsche and Willy Messerschmitt, was awarded the National Prize for Art and Science by Adolf Hitler. In 1939, at the suggestion of Wernher von Braun, Heinkel built the first aircraft with a turbine airjet engine, the "He 178", as well as the first rocket aircraft, the "He 176". Shortly after Willy Messerschmitt, Heinkel built the "He 178" in 1939, the world's second jet aircraft that went into series production.
In 1943, the Luftwaffe became Heinkel's main customer, which resulted in the founding of "Ernst Heinkel AG". Heinkel retained the majority shares, but moved to the supervisory board. The workforce of around 50,000 employees consisted primarily of forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners. After the end of the Second World War, most of the factory halls were destroyed. Remaining machines and production facilities were dismantled by the Allies. Heinkel was taken prisoner of war and accused of complicity. It was only at the end of 1948 that Heinkel was classified as a minor and released due to a contact he had with the resistance member Wilhelm Canaris. In 1950, Heinkel dared to make a new entrepreneurial start in Stuttgart, initially with the construction of engines and later with the development of motor scooters.
From 1955 onwards, the "Heinkel Works" built a two-seater cabin scooter, which, due to its aircraft-like design, shaped the streetscape of the post-war period and the economic miracle years. From 1958 onwards, Heinkel built aircraft again in Speyer. However, he was unable to build on previous successes.
Ernst Heinkel died on January 30, 1958 in Stuttgart. - Irene Marhold was born on 25 July 1932 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (1966), Der Hexer (1956) and Mit der Liebe spielt man nicht... (1973). She died on 25 November 2017 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Yan Frid was born on 31 May 1908 in Krasnoyarsk, Russian Empire [now Russia]. Yan was a director and writer, known for Dvenadtsataya noch (1955), Vesenniye khlopoty (1964) and Letuchaya mysh (1979). Yan died on 21 December 2003 in Stuttgart, Germany.