Brunolf Baade
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| Born |
Carl Wilhelm Brunolf Baade 15 March 1904 Berlin-Roxdorf, Germany |
| Died |
5 November 1969 (aged 65) Berlin-Buch, German Democratic Republic |
| Occupation | Aeronautical engineer |
| Political party |
NSDAP (1937) SED (1954) |
| Spouse(s) | Anna Stierle |
Brunolf Baade (15 March 1904 – 5 November 1969) was an important German aeronautical engineer. He led the team that developed the Baade 152.
Brunolf Baade was born and grew up on the southern edge of Rixdorf (today Neukölln), a densely populated district then just outside the northern perimeter of Berlin. (Rixdorf would be incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920.) His father was employed in a small electronics company, later rising to the position of assembly and technical worker. Brunolf had two younger sisters. His mother contributed to the household budget by running a small shop. Baade's father came from farming stock, but his mother's ancestry included teachers and artisans, along with the popular nineteenth century poet Hofmann von Fallersleben, an ancestor of whom Brunolf Baade was particularly proud.
Baade attended the "Emperor Frederick Grammar School" ("Kaiser-Friedrich-Realgymnasium") locally from 1910, successfully completing his school leaving exam in 1922. When he was 14 his enthusiastic if brief involvement in some of the preparations for revolution which erupted in postwar Germany alarmed his parents, who were never themselves particularly political, and suggested that his rather conservative school environment had released a rebellious streak in the boy.
He then studied at the Technical University of Berlin. He combined his time as a student with an internship at Blohm + Voss in Hamburg, reflecting his ambition at that time to make his career in the booming ship building industry. In Hamburg he was involved in the construction of the "Waskenland". Later, after the ship had been fitted out, she made her maiden voyage to South America. Baade joined the crew as a "coal trimmer", and then took the opportunity to explore South America, discovering its people and customs.
Returning to Berlin, Baade resumed his studies, now increasingly focused on the potential of the aircraft business, to which he had been introduced during his stay in South America. He joined the Academic Flying League and started to construct gliders. (Production and operation of powered aircraft in Germany had been under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles signed in 1919.) Baade also learned to fly and participated in the annual glider competitions at the Wasserkuppe.
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