Brunolf Baade

Brunolf Baade (15 March 1904 – 5 November 1969) was a German aeronautical engineer. He led the team that developed the Baade 152.

Life

Early years Brunolf Baade was born in and grew up on the southern edge of Rixdorf (today Neukölln), Brunolf had two younger sisters. His mother contributed to the household budget by running a small shop. Baade's father came from farming stock, but his mother's ancestry included teachers and artisans, along with the popular 19th-century poet Hofmann von Fallersleben, an ancestor of whom Brunolf Baade was particularly proud.

At the end of 1927, he learned to fly powered aircraft, undertaking a course with the still semiclandestine German Flying School (DVS) and obtaining a pilot's licence. Incorporated into his study period with the DVS was an internship that ran from 27 November 1927 to 5 December 1928 and based in Berlin, which involved responsibility for static load testing. but in the second half of 1936, he returned to Germany with his wife. Some ambiguity remains as to whether, at this stage, the couple had expected to stay in Germany, but on 1 October 1936, Baade took a job to the south of Berlin, at Dessau with Junkers. High-calibre aircraft engineers were now becoming highly valued; he achieved rapid promotion and an unexpectedly large salary, and ended up living in a large house, all of which led to the abandonment of any half-formed intentions that he might have had to return across the Atlantic. though as matters turned out, the subsequent research of the Junkers engineers would be of greater value than their memories of the past. Much later, more considered verdicts concur around the suspicion that the engines were starved because of issues involving the fuel feed system

Awards and honours 1959: Patriotic Order of Merit

Many streets are named after him, including the Brunolf-Baade-Straße (Brunolf Baade Street) alongside Berlin's Schönefeld Airport and another in Ludwigsfelde.