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454: 33: 613: 357: 488:. Wankel was imprisoned by French authorities for several months in 1945 and his laboratory was closed by French occupation troops. Wankel's work was confiscated and he was prohibited from doing any more work. However, by 1951, he got funding from the Goetze AG company to furnish the new Technical Development Center in his privately owned house in 281:, the National Socialist German Workers Party (or "Nazi Party"), which was banned soon afterwards. Wankel founded and led youth groups associated with a cover-up organization of the NSDAP. With them he conducted paramilitary training, scouting games and night walks. When his high esteem for technical innovations was not widely shared among the 316:, then founded his own National Socialist splinter group in Lahr and continued his attacks on Wagner. Since the Nazis' seizure of power on 30 January 1933 had strengthened his position, Wagner had Wankel arrested and imprisoned in the Lahr jail in March 1933. Only by intervention of Hitler's economic adviser 261:. He was, however, able to teach himself technical subjects. At age 17 he told friends that he had dreamt of constructing a car with "a new type of engine, half turbine, half reciprocating. It is my invention!". True to this prediction, he conceived the Wankel engine in 1924 and won his first patent in 1929. 308:
in Baden. But they soon fell out with each other, because Wankel tried to put a stronger emphasis on military training, whereas Wagner wished for the Hitler Youth to be a primarily political organization. In a particularly bitter and ugly controversy Wankel publicly accused Wagner of corruption.
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in 1921. He learned the trade of purchaser at the Carl Winter Press in Heidelberg and worked for the publishing house until June 1926. He and some friends had already run an unofficial afterwork machine shop in a backyard shed in Heidelberg since 1924. Wankel was now determined to receive
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Wankel became a success in business by securing license agreements for the engine to manufacturers around the world. By 1958 Wankel and partners had founded the Wankel GmbH company, providing Wankel with a share of the profits for marketing the engine. Among the licensees were
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in October 1988, aged 86. His grave is in the Bergfriedhof of Heidelberg. After his death, the Felix Wankel Foundation sold its real estate property to Volkswagen AG. The Heidelberg Fire Department showcases his last workshop. Wankel's papers are archived in the
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research organization. From 1986 the Felix Wankel Institute entered cooperation agreement with Daimler Benz, which covered the institute's operating costs in return for research rights. Wankel later sold the institute to Daimler Benz for 100 million Deutschmarks.
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in Frankfurt, the NSU company presented the NSU Wankel-Spider, the first consumer vehicle with a rotary engine, which went into production in 1964. Great attention was received by the NSU in August 1967 for the very modern
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In the context of the developed Wankel engine, "rotary" is something of a misnomer. The Wankel principle applied only to a "rotary piston" and not to the engine as a whole which was a stationary assembly, unlike
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Wankel was gifted since childhood with an ingenious spatial imagination and became interested in the world of machines, especially combustion engines. After his mother was widowed, Wankel could not afford
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automobile. At around this time the term "Wankel engine" became synonymous with the rotary type of engine, whereas previously it was referred to as the "Motor nach System NSU/Wankel". At the 1963
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experimental models in 1969 with a three-rotor Wankel engine. In 1970, the next model had a four-rotor Wankel engine and could reach top speed 290 km/h but never reached production.
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from 1933 to 1945, Keppler had been a friend of Wankel and an ardent supporter of his technological endeavors since 1927. He now helped Wankel to get state contracts and his own
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unemployment benefits and to focus on the machine shop. One of his friends, who had graduated from university, gave his name and transformed the shop into an official garage for
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licensed the engine and successfully solved various problems relating to chatter marks. The engine was used successfully by Mazda in several generations of their RX-series of
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of present-day southwestern Germany. He was the only son of Gerty Wankel (née Heidlauff) and Rudolf Wankel, a forest assessor. His father died in
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Wagner retaliated by stripping Wankel of his office by early 1932 and managed to have him expelled from the party in October 1932.
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in Munich. In the same year, with the KKM 250, the first practically applied rotary engine was presented in a converted
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Wankel tried to rejoin the NSDAP in 1937, but was turned down. With the help of Keppler, however, he was admitted to the
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sedan, which had a 115-horsepower engine with two rotors. It was the first German car named "Car of the Year" in 1968.
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On 19 January 1960 the rotary engine was presented for the first time to specialists and the press in a meeting of the
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since 1971. Among those who paid higher fees for Wankel RCE rights was a state-owned engineering firm of the
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In the meantime Wankel's mother, Gerty had helped founding the local chapter of the NSDAP in his hometown of
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He never had a driving license, because he was extremely near-sighted. He was, however, the owner of an
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Wankel married Emma "Mi" Kirn in 1936. Though married for life, they had no children. She died in 1975.
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and Hitler himself, was Wankel set free in September 1933. A fellow native of Baden and member of
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employed in WW1 aircraft in which the entire engine rotated about a fixed crankshaft.
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Wankel, who sympathized with the social-revolutionary wing of the NSDAP with
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Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
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in 1927, where Wankel worked from time to time until his arrest in 1933.
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The Grand Federal Service Cross, Germany's highest civilian honor, 1970
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organizations. In 1921 he joined the Heidelberg branch of the
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During the early 1920s Wankel was a member of various radical
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Mazda Rotary Engine Is Coming Back on an MX-30 Plug-In-Hybrid
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The Federation of German Engineers (VDI) Gold Medal, 1969.
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with a Wankel engine, which was chauffeur driven for him.
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on Lake Constance. He began development of the engine at
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German Empire
Heidelberg
Baden-Württemberg
West Germany
Reich Air Ministry
Goetze AG
NSU
Wankel engine
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mechanical engineer
Wankel engine
Lahr
Grand Duchy of Baden
Upper Rhine Plain
World War I
Donaueschingen
Heidelberg
Weinheim
Abitur
DKW
Cleveland motor bikes
university
apprenticeship
anti-Semitic
Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund
NSDAP
German Youth Movement

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