HISTORY
Bücker-Flugzeugbau GmbH
was founded by
Carl Clemens Bücker, who had
served as an officer in the
Imperial German Navy during
World War I and then spent
some years in Sweden
establishing the Svenska
Aero factory. With the sale
of this business at the end
of 1932, Bücker returned to
his native Germany where he
opened his new factory in
Johannisthal, Berlin in
1934, but moved to a new
built bigger factory in
Rangsdorf in 1935.
Bücker's three great
successes were the Bücker Bü
131
Jungmann
(1934), the Bü 133
Jungmeister
(1936) and the Bü 181
Bestmann
(1939). As well as these,
the company built designs
from several other
manufacturers under licence,
including the Focke-Wulf Fw
44, the DFS 230, and
components for the
Focke-Wulf Fw 190, Junkers
Ju 87, and Henschel Hs 293.
At
the end of World War II, the
company’s premises fell into
the Soviet occupation zone,
and were seized. The company
was then broken up.
The
Bü 181 continued to be built
in Czechoslovakia and Egypt
after the war.
Source:
Wikipedia
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