Claude Dornier

His notable designs include the 12-engine Dornier Do X flying boat, for decades the world's largest and most powerful airplane.

The son of a French wine importer and his German wife, Claude Dornier was born in Kempten im Allgäu in Bavaria where he grew up and attended school, with science being his chief interest.

[2] After political pressure he joined the Nazi Party in 1940 and during the Second World War his company created many aircraft for the German armed forces.

After the war during the denazification of Germany, Claude Dornier was classified as a "Follower" (Group IV).

[3] Dornier received the Ludwig-Prandtl-Ring from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics) for "outstanding contribution in the field of aerospace engineering" in 1959.