Brunolf Baade

Brunolf Baade (15 March 1904 – 5 November 1969) was an important German aeronautical engineer. He led the team that developed the Baade 152.

Life

Early years

Brunolf Baade was born and grew up on the southern edge of Rixdorf (today Neukölln), a densely populated district then just outside the northern perimeter of Berlin. (Rixdorf would be incorporated into Greater Berlin in 1920.) His father was employed in a small electronics company, later rising to the position of assembly and technical worker. Brunolf had two younger sisters. His mother contributed to the household budget by running a small shop. Baade's father came from farming stock, but his mother's ancestry included teachers and artisans, along with the popular nineteenth century poet Hofmann von Fallersleben, an ancestor of whom Brunolf Baade was particularly proud.

Baade attended the "Emperor Frederick Grammar School" ("Kaiser-Friedrich-Realgymnasium") locally from 1910, successfully completing his school leaving exam in 1922. When he was 14 his enthusiastic if brief involvement in some of the preparations for revolution which erupted in postwar Germany alarmed his parents, who were never themselves particularly political, and suggested that his rather conservative school environment had released a rebellious streak in the boy.