Hermann Pohlmann (26 June 1894 – 7 July 1991) was a German

aerospace engineer Aerospace engineering is the primary field of engineering concerned with the development of aircraft and spacecraft. It has two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering. Avionics engineering is s ...

. He was the principal designer of the

Junkers Ju 87 The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from ''Sturzkampfflugzeug'', "dive bomber") was a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft. Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935. The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Con ...

''Stuka'', a

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used during

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, before becoming Deputy Chief Designer at

Blohm & Voss Blohm+Voss (B+V), also written historically as Blohm & Voss, Blohm und Voß etc., is a German shipbuilding and engineering company. Founded in Hamburg in 1877 to specialise in steel-hulled ships, its most famous product was the World War II battle ...

. After the war, when the

Hamburger Flugzeugbau ''Hamburger Flugzeugbau'' (HFB) was an aircraft manufacturer, located primarily in the Finkenwerder quarter of Hamburg, Germany. Established in 1933 as an offshoot of Blohm & Voss shipbuilders, it later became an operating division within its par ...

(HFB) was recreated in 1956, he was appointed Chief Designer and led the team which designed the

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Published works

* Pohlmann, Hermann (1982). ''Chronik Eines Flugzeugwerkes 1932–1945'', Motorbuch. . The story of Hamburger Flugzeugbau and the Blohm & Voss aircraft subsidiary.

References

* Amtmann, Hans (1988). ''The Vanishing Paperclips''. Monogram. * Griehl, Manfred (2001). ''Junkers Ju 87 Stuka''. Airlife Publishing/Motorbuch, London/Stuttgart. German aerospace engineers Junkers people 1894 births 1991 deaths Engineers from Hamburg {{Germany-engineer-stub