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Dr. Dethmann, Adolf

( *   03. Dec. 1896   )

 

1929 - 1931
JFM Main Office

1931 - 1933
ICO Director



Dr. Adolf Dethmann joint Junkers in April 1929 and worked at the Hauptburo. He became managing director of Junkers & Co in December 1931 after Hugo Junkers had released the former directors Sachsenberg and Kaumann. After the Nazis won the elections in March 1933, Dethmann was arrested with reference to his former contacts to communists

Further Reading at other Sites:
Die Kommunistische Linke (German text about Dethmann's Communist period)



von Doepp, Philipp Christoph

( *   08. May 1885   + 21. Oct. 1967 )

 

1910 – 1912
Research Laboratories Aachen

1919 - 1945 JFM Aerodynamic Department




Phillip von Doepp studied electrical engineering at the University of St. Petersburg until 1910. In July 1910 he went to Aachen and joint the Research Institute of Prof. Junkers. In 1912 he returned to Russia and began scientific carreer at the University of St. Petersburg, but in December 1918 he returned to Aachen and became responsible for the windchannel tests at Prof. Junkers institute. In 1919 von Doepp became the responsible manager of the aerodynamic departement of the Research Institute, which was later integrated into Junkers Flugzeugwerke. He kept this position until the end of WWII. By the end of WWII von Doepp moved to the U.S.A. and took over a position at the Aeronautical Research Institute in Dayton until 1961.

Von Doepp's brother Alexander was also engaged at the Junkers Research Institute in Aachen from 1912 to 1913, when he worked on questions of oil engines.

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von Dewitz, Ottfried

( *     )

 

1936 - 1937
JFM Director's Board



Ottfried von Dewitz became member of the IFA board of directors in April 1936. He left the board in November 1937. von Dewitz was already member of the board of directors of the Versuchsanstalt fuer Luftfahrt since 1926.

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Dresel, August

( *   11. Oct. 1898   )

 

1924 - 1939
JFM Marketing

1939 - ????
Supervisor at
VW Werk Wolfsburg

???? - 1945
Wiener Neustaedter Werk



Dresel belonged to the Fliegertruppe during WWI. In 1919 he started his studies at Bingen, later he became technical assistant at Siemens and Halske. In May 1924 he joint Junkers Flugzeugwerke, where he became marketing assistant. In 1931 he is appointed as the marketing manager of Junkers, in 1935 he became the public relation manager of Junkers. In 1939 Dresel became responsible for the switch over of the Volkswagenwerk in Wolfsburg for aircraft production. Later during the war Dresel became also the Technical Director of the Wiener-Neustädter Flugzeugwerke. After WWII Dresel settled at Kassel and took over several marketing positions there.

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Droemmer, Friedrich (Peter)

( *   16. Jan. 1889   + 1968 )

 

1923 - 1933
JFM Marketing





Friedrich Droemmer visited the Weimar Artificial Highschool until 1915. After WWI he worked at the Bauhaus in Weimar, in Kiel, Aachen and Frankfurt. At Munich he met Herta Junkers and got into contact with Hugo Junkers. In June 1923 he joint the Junkers Main Office. At the PR Office of Junkers he designed the Junkers marketing logo of the "Flying Man" in 1924. Droemmer also worked on the interior design of Junkers aircraft as well as on Junkeres Metal Houses and Metal Furnitures.

Droemmer had also good private connections to the Junkers family and was highly accepted with Junkers. In September 1927 he brought Richard Blunck to Junkers and in April 1929 he asked Adolf Dethmann to join the company. Still in June 1933 Droemmer brought Heinrich Ehmsen to Junkers. Therefore Droemmer was mostly responsible for the marketing developement of Junkers Flugzeugwerke until 1933.

In 1933 he was arrested by the Gestapo, but was shortly afterwards released again. He married Annelise Junkers and left Germany together with her for Italy. In 1935 he returned to Germany and designed other industry logos, i.e. the Magirus Deutz logo.

Further Reading at other Sites:
Friedrich Peter Drömmer Homepage (German, with lots of infos about Droemmer's work)

 

 

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