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Dr. Ferdinand Brandner (November 17, 1903 – December 20, 1986) was an Austrian aerospace designer, an S.S. Standartenführer in wartime Germany, and was responsible for the most powerful turboprop engine ever built, the Kuznetsov NK-12, while interned in the Soviet Union under Operation Osoaviakhim following World War II. ==Life== Brandner was born November 17, 1903 to Sudeten German parents in Vienna, his father being a low-ranking government official.〔 He served in the Freikorps Oberland in 1921,〔("Forum, Volumes 34-35" ), Verein der Redakteure und Angestellten des Forums, 1987. p. 25. ISBN 3-518-02490-6, ISBN 978-3-518-02490-4.〕 and went on to study in Vienna, earning a degree in engineering in 1925. He began designing diesel engines for locomotives, working at the Humboldt-Deutz-Motoren AG in the Rhineland.〔("Science, Technology, and National Socialism" ), Monika Renneberg, Mark Walker. Cambridge University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-521-52860-7, ISBN 978-0-521-52860-3.〕 In 1930 Brandner joined the National Socialist Factory Organization and the Technical Engineers Division of the NSDAP, 〔 becoming an engineering consultant to the Austrian NSDAP in 1935.〔("Bedeutende Jumo-Leiter (Technik)" ), Flugzeug Lorenz. Retrieved May 22, 2010.〕 He would rise within the S.S. to the rank of colonel (Standartenführer).〔("Nazistische Sympathien für den Islamismus nach 1945" ), Brandenburg State Centre for Political Education. 26 September 2008. Retrieved May 22, 2010.〕 By 1936 Brandner was working at the Junkers-Motorenbau factory in Dessau designing aircraft engines, and eventually assisted with the war effort for Germany. In the spring of 1945, Brandner was captured by the Red Army trying to flee to Prague near the end of World War II.〔("The Soviet armaments industry" ), Ulrich Albrecht. Routledge, 1993. p. 30, 35–37. ISBN 3-7186-5313-3, ISBN 978-3-7186-5313-3.〕 He was flown to Moscow as part of Operation Osoaviakhim, where he was assigned to work with Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsov. Eventually the Soviets dismantled the Junkers factory in Dessau and the BMW factory in Stassfurt, moving them to Kuibyshev, inside the U.S.S.R.〔〔("LIFE" ), Vol. 42, No. 21. May 27, 1957. p.77-82. ISSN 0024-3019.〕 Longing to escape Communism,〔 he was released from the U.S.S.R. in 1953,〔 where he returned to Austria.〔 He began working at Maschinenfabrik Andritz AG as the technical director.〔 From there he became managing director at BMW Aircraft Engines. In 1959, Brandner left Europe for Egypt, where the government was recruiting German World War II scientists for their top-secret aerospace program.〔("Two minutes over Baghdad" ), Amos Perlmutter, Michael I. Handel, Uri Bar-Joseph. p. 12. ISBN 0-7146-5422-1, ISBN 978-0-7146-5422-5.〕 His project was codenamed "135", with the duty of designing a jet engine for a fighter already constructed.〔 In 1962, the presence of German scientists in Egypt was exposed in the world press, leading to a regional crisis from Israel to Germany.〔("Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism" ), Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. NYU Press, 2000. p. 176-177. ISBN 0-8147-3111-2, ISBN 978-0-8147-3111-6.〕 In 1972–1973, he worked as a professor in China giving lectures on engine construction.〔Summary of world broadcasts: Far East, Part 3. Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corp, 1973.〕〔Sudetenland, Volume 24. H. Preussler, 1982. p. 221〕 Brandner died December 20, 1986 in Salzburg. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ferdinand Brandner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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