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Woldemar Voigt (10 February 1907 – June 1980) was a German aerospace engineer, who was responsible for some of the advanced swept wing German jet-powered aircraft at the end of World War II.

Woldemar Voigt
Born	(1907-02-07)February 7, 1907 Göttingen, Germany
Died	June 1980 (aged 73)
Nationality	German
Spouse(s)	Clara Hollerung
Engineering career
Discipline	Aerospace engineering

Early life

His grandfather was the German physicist Woldemar Voigt (1850-1919), known for Voigt notation, Voigt profile and the Voigt effect, and who introduced the term tensor in 1898. He was born in February 1907 in Göttingen; he was the oldest of four brothers. His father was Karl Voigt (1879–1965).

He studied at technical high school in Darmstadt, in the south of Hesse.

Career

Klemm

He worked for Klemm, designing the Klemm Kl 35.

Messerschmitt

He joined Messerschmitt, in Bavaria, in 1933.

He was the project leader for the designs of the Messerschmitt Me 264 (four-engined bomber), Messerschmitt Me 328, and the infamous rocket-engined Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet. He oversaw the design of the swept-wing Messerschmitt P.1101 jet fighter, which was never built (by the Germans), but provided a valued contribution to early American swept-wing jet fighters. From October 1938, Messerschmitt had been looking at designs for jet fighter aircraft. He was head of the Projects Department from 1939.[2] At Messerschmitt, other designers included Wolfgang Degel.

In October 1943, the Messerschmitt design department moved to Oberammergau in southern Bavaria, on the Austrian border. The NATO School has been on the site since 1953.

Vought

He went to work for the American aircraft company Vought, with one of his first designs being the Vought F7U Cutlass, which was developed from German scientists' data on swept-wing jet aircraft.

Personal life

He married Clara Hollerung (born 12 September 1911) in 1935. He died in June 1980 in America, aged 73. He had lived in Annapolis, Maryland.

See also

• List of German aircraft projects, 1939–45
• List of German inventors and discoverers
• Richard Vogt (aircraft designer), later worked for Boeing

References

External links

• Family tree

Business positions
Preceded by Robert Lusser	Head of New Projects at Messerschmitt 1939 - 1945	Succeeded by

На других языках

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[de] Woldemar Voigt (Ingenieur)

Woldemar Voigt (* 10. Februar 1907 in Münster; † 22. Juni 1980 in Towson 4, MD, USA) war ein deutscher Flugzeugbau-Ingenieur, der maßgeblich an der Entwicklung der ersten strahlgetriebenen Flugzeuge in der Zeit des Dritten Reiches beteiligt war. Sein Großvater väterlicherseits war der Physiker Woldemar Voigt.

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- [en] Woldemar Voigt (engineer)

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[ru] Фойгт, Вольдемар (инженер)

Вольдемар Фойгт (нем. Woldemar Voigt) (10 февраля 1907 — 22 июня 1980) — немецкий авиаконструктор, с 1939 года начальник проектного отдела Messerschmitt AG, главный конструктор самолётов Ме-262, Ме-163, Ме-264 и Ме-328. После Второй мировой войны был интернирован в США, где, получив американское гражданство, работал в американском авиастроении. Внук известного физика Вольдемара Фойгта.

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