Wilhelm Flügge

[4] In 1934 Flügge published his most noted work Statik und Dynamik der Schalen in German, in 1960 translated it into English, entitled Stresses in shells.

"[2] Flügge was born in Greiz in the Free State of Thuringia, now Germany in 1904, where his father was a minister in the Protestant church.

[1][2] After his graduation Flügge started his academic career at the Technische Hochschule Dresden as assistant to Kurt Beyer, an specialist on calculations on reinforced concrete.

[1][2] With the ongoing destruction of Berlin the research facilities were moved in the spring of 1944 to Bad Saulgau in southern Germany, after the war in the French zone of occupation.

In 1947 Flügge and his wife Irmgard Flügge-Lotz accepted positions at the new created Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) in Paris.