Edmund Rumpler

Edmund Elias Rumpler (4 January 1872 – 7 September 1940) was an Austrian automobile and aircraft designer.

[2] An automotive engineer by training, he collaborated with Hans Ledwinka on the first Tatra car (at that time called Nesselsdorfer-Wagenbau), the Präsident, in 1897.

He quit Adler in 1907,[1] and in 1910, copying countryman Igo Etrich's Taube, Rumpler became the first ever aircraft manufacturer in Germany.

[2] Rumpler's efforts produced a car with an astoundingly low Cw of only 0.28 (when tested in 1979);[2] the Fiat Balilla of the period, by contrast, was 0.60.

[5] Because Rumpler was Jewish, he was imprisoned after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933, and his career was ruined, even though he was soon released.