Messerschmitt Willy Biography

Re: Wilhelm Emil Messerschmitt I will add a dream of building aircraft was born at Messerschmitt at the age of five, when the son of a Bavarian wine merchant first saw Zeppelin, who was floating in the sky.

At the age of 15, he began to play glider sports, and a year later he created and himself experienced his first aircraft. After graduation, he became an assistant to the famous pioneer of the planning Friedrich Hart, and he, in turn, during the First World War, helped the boy to enter a military flight school. Together they built the Hart-Messerschmitt S8 glider, at which Hart set a world record in the year, holding in the air for 21 minutes.

In the same year, Messerschmitt founded his company in Bamberg Messerschmitt Flugzeugbau. In the year, Messerschmitt for the first time in his life himself climbed into the air - and accepted the "Battle Baptism" that all the famous models of Messerschmitt with letters VF on the fuselage were born there only at the end of the Second World War were replaced by me. The government was unprofitable to separately finance both airlines, and it pressed on Messerschmitt to merge with BFW.

Messerschmitt did not agree at first, trying to maintain his independence. In the end, they agreed that Messerschmitt was engaged in designing aircraft, preserving patents and copyrights, and serial production was transferred to the BFV, which bloated its design bureaus and switched exclusively to the production of Messerschmitt aircraft. Thus, two companies retained their legal entity, although they actually worked as a whole.

In the elections of the year, national socialists led by Hitler came to power. The worst enemy of Messerschmitt - Erhard Milh, the former managing director of Lufthansa and the convinced Nazi, shortly before the election, appointed Minister of Civil Aviation, was in their government. They did not get along with personal grounds. Milh did not forgive the designer of the death of a close friend who died in the accident of one of the Messerschmitt models, and vowed that it was impossible to see government orders.

Therefore, the designer had to urgently acquire his own high patrons in new power structures. One of them was the deputy Hitler for the party Rudolf Hess - the passionate aviator himself. The second is a former pilot, a veteran of the First World War, Croine, who worked under the leadership of the future commander in chief of the Goering Luftwaffe. But even, despite such ties, the reputation of a reliable businessman-manager, but a worthless designer, whose models never keep up with the deadline and constantly fight, was entrenched in the Messerschmitt.

But the stubborn German showed character - unfortunately for the whole of Europe, which soon happened to get acquainted with the new "product" of Messerschmitt. The war was nearing completion, and with it it was tending to sunset and career Willy Messerschmitt. The designer himself, unlike many of his colleagues, did not want to cooperate with the Americans. Having served two years in prison on charges of using prisoners of concentration camps at his factories, Willy Messerschmitt went to Spain, to Franco, who did not forget the services rendered to him in M.

Willy Messerschmitt himself, having developed several educational and super -sound aircraft for Spain and Egypt. However, none of them could even remotely approach the importance that the Messerschmitta Messerschmitta had ended, and in post -war Germany his talent remained unclaimed. The creator of the German aviation miracle returned to his homeland only in the year and restored his company, which later became part of the MBB aircraft.

He was the honorary chairman of the concern "Messerschmitt - BEELOV - Blue"; The holder of a significant number of shares of this concern. By the end of his life, Willy Messerschmitt’s assets were several hundred patents, and his aircraft of various types were released by a solid circulation of 45 thousand.