Woldemar Voigt (engineer)

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; one of his designs for a jet bomber ended up being built in the 1950s as a British V bomber.

Woldemar Voigt
Born(1907-02-07)February 7, 1907
Göttingen, Germany
DiedJune 1980
NationalityGerman
Spouse(s)Clara Hollerung
Engineering career
DisciplineAerospace engineering

Early life

His grandfather was the famous German physicicist 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
Messerschmitt Me-262 in January 1976 at the RAF Museum in north London; Woldemar Voigt was head of the aircraft's design team[1]

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

References
  1. Sharks of the Air: Willy Messerschmitt and How He Built the World’s First Operational Jet Fighter
  2. Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerika Bomber
Business positions
Preceded by
Robert Lusser		 Head of New Projects at Messerschmitt
1939 - 1945		 Succeeded by
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