Walter Rethel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Walter Rethel

German aircraft designer

Date of Birth: 15-Aug-1892

Place of Birth: Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1977

Profession: engineer, aerospace engineer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Leo

Walter Rethel (1892–1977) was a German aircraft designer. Working for the Dutch company Fokker in the years after World War I, he designed aircraft such as the amphibious Fokker B.I and the Fokker F.VII airliner.
In the 1920s he worked for Arado Flugzeugwerke in Germany, before moving to Messerschmitt, where he was chief engineer on the legendary Bf 109.