Franz Kruckenberg, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German engineer
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Place of Birth: Uetersen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Franz Kruckenberg
- Franz Friedrich Kruckenberg (* 21 August 1882 in Uetersen, Germany; †19 June 1965 in Heidelberg) was an engineer and pioneer of high speed railway systems.
- He designed several high speed trains.
- His most famous design was the Schienenzeppelin. Kruckenberg was born into an old-established Hamburg merchant family.
- From 1904 to 1907 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin, graduating in naval engineering.
- Before World War I he designed aircraft and airships.
- Even then he already criticised airships because of their explosive hydrogen filling; and the civil use of aircraft because of their high fuel- and maintenance costs.
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