About Felix Wankel
Felix Heinrich Wankel was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War I and was a prominent member of the Nazi Party. True to this prediction, he conceived the Wankel engine in 1924 and won his first patent in 1929. Wankel founded and led youth groups associated with a front organization of the NSDAP. Wankel, who sympathized with the social-revolutionary wing of the NSDAP with Gregor Strasser, then founded his own National Socialist splinter group in Lahr and continued his attacks on Wagner. Wankel was gifted since childhood with an ingenious spatial imagination and became interested in the world of machines, especially combustion engines.
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