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Arado Flugzeugwerke was a German aircraft manufacturer, originally established as the Warnemünde factory of the Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen firm, that produced land-based military aircraft and seaplanes during the First and Second World Wars.


History


With its parent company, it ceased operations following the First World War, when restrictions on German aviation were created by the Treaty of Versailles. In 1921, the factory was purchased by Heinrich Lübbe, who is said to have assisted Anthony Fokker in the creation of the pioneering Stangensteuerung synchronization gear system during 1914-15, and re-commenced aircraft construction for export, opening a subsidiary, Ikarus, in Yugoslavia. Walter Rethel, previously of Kondor and Fokker, was appointed head designer.[1] In 1925, the company joined the Arado Handelsgesellschaft ("Arado trading firm") that was founded by the industrialist Hugo Stinnes Junior for covering up illegal trade with military equipment. When the Nazi government came to power in Germany in 1933, Lübbe took control of the company. Just prior to that, Walter Blume, formerly of Albatros, replaced Rethel.

Arado achieved early prominence as a supplier to the Luftwaffe with the Arado Ar 66, which became one of the standard Luftwaffe trainers right into World War II. The firm also produced some of the Luftwaffe's first fighter aircraft, the Ar 65 and Ar 68. In 1936, the RLM (Reichsluftfahrtministerium – "Reich Aviation Ministry") insisted that, as a show of loyalty, Lübbe should join the Nazi party. When he refused, he was arrested and forced to sell the company to the state. It was renamed to the more specific (and accurate) Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH, and was placed under the direction of Erich Serno, and Felix Wagenführ, himself a former IdFlieg officer in World War I.

When Germany invaded Poland, instigating World War II, two more Arado products rose to prominence, the Ar 96, which became the Luftwaffe's most used trainer, and the Ar 196 a reconnaissance seaplane that became standard equipment on all larger German warships. Unfortunately for Arado, most of their other designs were passed over in favour of stronger products from their competitors, such as Germany's only heavy bomber fielded during the war, the Heinkel He 177, for which Arado was the primary subcontractor. Perhaps Arado's most celebrated aircraft of the war was the Ar 234, the first jet-powered bomber. Too late to have any real effect on the outcome of the conflict, it was nevertheless a sign of things to come.

Until their liberation in April 1945 by the Soviet army, 1,012 slave laborers from Freiberg, a sub-camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, worked at the Arado factory, beginning with the first trainload of 249 prisoners arriving in August 1944. The prisoners were mostly Polish Jewish women and girls sent to Freiberg from Auschwitz.

Arado also licence-built various versions of, and components for the Focke-Wulf Fw 190.

In 1945, the company was liquidated and broken up.

The Ar 96 continued to be produced in Czechoslovakia by Zlin for many years after the war as the C.2B.


Aircraft


Arado aircraft include:

Major internal World War II projects under the RLM:


See also



References


  1. "Arado Flugzeugwerke GMbH. Globalsecurity.org".
  2. Gunston, William ‘Bill’, ed. (1989) [Jane’s All the World's Aircraft: 1945, Jane’s]. Jane’s Fighting Aircraft of World War II. Random House. p. 157. ISBN 1-85170-493-0.


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На других языках

[de] Arado Flugzeugwerke

Die Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH war ein deutscher Flugzeughersteller aus Rostock-Warnemünde. Die Flugzeugwerft entstand 1921 auf dem Gelände und in den Hallen der früheren Außenstelle der Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH. Ab 1924 wurden Motorflugzeuge für die unterschiedlichen Anwendungsfälle von Schulflugzeugen bis zu (späteren) Bombern produziert. Zwischen 1936 und 1942 existierten zahlreiche Zweigwerke in Deutschland. Die Flugzeugherstellung endete im Mai 1945, die Firma wurde 1961 liquidiert.
- [en] Arado Flugzeugwerke

[fr] Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH

Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH est un constructeur aéronautique allemand créé en 1921 et disparu en 1961.

[it] Arado Flugzeugwerke

Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH era un'azienda aeronautica tedesca attiva nella produzione di velivoli destinati al mercato sia civile che militare.

[ru] Arado

«Ара́до»[2] (нем. Arado Flugzeugwerke GmbH) — немецкая авиастроительная компания, изначально созданная как завод в Варнемюнде, подразделение «Флюгцойгбау Фридрихсгафен», фирмы, производившей во время Первой мировой войны военные самолёты сухопутного базирования и гидросамолёты. Окончательно ликвидирована в 1945 году.


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