Walter Georgi was a German painter and illustrator who lived from April 10, 1871, in Leipzig, Germany, to June 17, 1924, in Utting am Ammersee, Germany. He was known for creating portraits of women.
Anton Flettner was born on November 1, 1885, and died on December 29, 1961. He was a German engineer and inventor who worked on designs for airplanes, helicopters, ships, and cars. Flettner served in both World Wars.
Henrich Focke was born on October 8, 1890, and died on February 25, 1979. He was a German inventor from Bremen and helped start the Focke-Wulf company. He is most famous for creating the Fw 61, which was the first helicopter that worked well and was easy to control.
Felix Heinrich Wankel (German: [ˈfeːlɪks ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈvaŋkl̩]; August 13, 1902 – October 9, 1988) was a German mechanical engineer and inventor. The Wankel engine was named after him. After World War I, Wankel joined groups that opposed Jewish people and was an important member of the Nazi Party.
Emile Berliner (born Emil Berliner; May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929) was a German-American inventor and businessman. He created the lateral-cut flat disc record, also called a “gramophone record,” which is used with a gramophone device. In 1894, he established the United States Gramophone Company.
Walter Bruch was born on March 2, 1908, and died on May 5, 1990. He was a German electrical engineer who helped develop television in Germany. He invented closed-circuit television.
Karl Ferdinand Braun (German: [ˈfɛʁdinant ˈbʁaʊ̯n]; 6 June 1850 – 20 April 1918) was a German scientist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their work on radio technology. His two-circuit system helped make long-distance radio communication and modern telecommunications possible. In 1905, he invented the phased array antenna, which later led to the development of radar, smart antennas, and MIMO.
Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow was a German electrical engineer and inventor. He created the Nipkow disk, which helped start television because it was a key part of the first televisions. Many stations tested television broadcasting with his disk in the 1920s and 1930s until newer systems replaced it in the 1940s.
August Nagel was born in June 1882 and died in October 1943. He was a German camera maker and designer. He helped start Zeiss-Ikon and later started his own company called Nagel Werke.
Oskar Barnack was born on November 1, 1879, in Nuthe-Urstromtal, Brandenburg, and died on January 16, 1936, in Bad Nauheim, Hesse. He was a German inventor and photographer who created in 1913 what later became the first successful 35mm still-camera. This camera was later known as Ur-Leica at Ernst Leitz Optische Werke, which is the Leitz factory in Wetzlar.