Ulrich Hütter
Ulrich Hütter (18 December 1910 – 12 August 1990) was an Austro-German aeronautical engineer and university teacher who came to wider prominence through his second career as a pioneer of wind power technology.
[5] Eduard Hütter (1880–1967), his father, was an architect originally from Salzburg, whose professional career increasingly focused on monument conservation on behalf of the government.
[2][12] He was employed, in addition, as a designer-constructor at Ventimotor GmbH., a pioneering wind-power company founded in 1940 by Fritz Sauckel, the regional "Gauleiter" (governor) and Freundeskreis Reichsführer SS Walter Schieber, an exceptionally talented and well-qualified chemist-engineer with close links to the government.
had been earmarked was as the supplier for a large decentralised power generation network using wind energy to be created in the context of the government's massively ambitious and gruesomely controversial "Generalplan Ost" for eastern central Europe.
According to one source he "served briefly in the military" before, still in 1943, being redeployed to Stuttgart to work as head of the construction-design department at the research institute of "Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH."
[3][13] Projects for which he was responsible at Zeppelin's research division included manned missiles, underwater towing devices and the Hütter Hü 211 high-altitude "night hunter" reconnaissance prototype.
As a former party member he underwent a denazification process, during the course of which he was classified as a "Mitläufer" (loosely, one who had run with the pack) rather than an instigator or perpetrator of Nazi atrocities, and was accordingly permitted to set himself up as a freelance engineer and specialist consultant on wind energy at the home of his wife's parents in Kirchheim, just outside Stuttgart.
[2][4] Between 1946 and 1959 he was employed as a "Konstruktionsleiter" (loosely, Head of Development and Design) by "Allgaier Werke", an engineering manufacturing business based at Uhingen (near Stuttgart) with several large automakers among its customers which quickly became established, in addition, as a producer of wind energy systems.
The design featured a windmill of 34 meter diameter, delivering 100 kW of output, employing glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) and incorporating provision for blade angle adjustment.
[5] During the first part of his career, while still concentrating on aerotechnology, Ulrich Hütter designed and developed a number of gliders, frequently teaming up with his brother Wolfgang for the purpose:
