Wilhelm Emil "Willy" Messerschmitt lived from 26 June 1898 to 17 September 1978 and was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer. He designed motor gliders and airliners in the early 1920s, and his firm was put into bankruptcy after the BFW M.20 damaged his reputation. He rebuilt the company and produced successful military aircraft for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War, including the Bf 109 designed with Walter Rethel and the Me 262, the first jet-powered fighter to enter service. After the war he was convicted of collaborating with the Nazi regime, worked in Spain, and returned to Germany in 1955 to direct Messerschmitt AG until he retired in 1970.
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was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer
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serving as director of Messerschmitt AG until his retirement in 1970
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