About August Coenders
Lived 1890 – 1974 (aged 83–84). August Coenders was an engineer.
August Coenders (1890—1974) was a German engineer working for Stahlwerke Becker AG during World War I, where he built a 20 mm antiaircraft gun. In the 1930s, he worked for several years in the UK, and in Puteaux, France Very little is known of his life after the V-3 project.
He was involved in the development of several firearm designs: submachine gun, machine gun, Röchling Volksgewehr and Volkssturmkarabiner.
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German engineer
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August Coenders was born in 1890.
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August Coenders died in 1974.
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