Edmund Rumpler
Austrian automobile and aircraft designer
About Edmund Rumpler
Lived 1872 – 1940 (aged 68). Edmund Rumpler was an Austrian engineer, inventor, military flight engineer, aerospace engineer, entrepreneur and design engineer.
Edmund Elias Rumpler (4 January 1872 – 7 September 1940) was an Austrian automobile and aircraft designer.
Born in Vienna, then Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Austria), he worked mainly in Germany. An automotive engineer by training, he collaborated with Hans Ledwinka on the first Tatra car (at that time called Nesselsdorfer-Wagenbau), the Präsident, in 1897.
Rumpler continued to be interested in automobiles, and after the First World War, he applied aircraft streamlining to a car, building the Tropfenwagen (German, "drop car")
The Rumpler design inspired the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen (which used the virtually-unchanged Rumpler chassis)
Because Rumpler was Jewish, he was imprisoned after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, and his career was ruined, even though he was soon released. He died in Züsow Germany in 1940, and the Nazis destroyed his records.
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Who was Edmund Rumpler?
Austrian automobile and aircraft designer (1872-1940)
When was Edmund Rumpler born?
Edmund Rumpler was born on 4 January 1872 in Vienna.
When did Edmund Rumpler die?
Edmund Rumpler died on 7 September 1940 in Züsow.
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Edmund Rumpler was an engineer, inventor, military flight engineer, aerospace engineer, entrepreneur and design engineer.
What nationality was Edmund Rumpler?
Edmund Rumpler was Austrian.
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