Chapter 468: Hermann Obert
Fang Lang is not a stingy person, since the other party has the ability and connections, of course Fang Lang will not be stingy.
When he talks about partners here, he is actually promising to give equity incentives to the other party. However, the amount of this equity incentive depends on the specific situation, and the current Fangyuan Aircraft Manufacturing Company is still a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fangyuan Group.
But if the company wants to develop and grow in the future, Fang Lang is ready to give the Ministry of Defense a certain share, of course, this share needs to be exchanged by the Ministry of Defense with the same interests.
Moreover, Fangyuan Group's position as the company's major shareholder must not be shaken.
After all, only in this way can the company get more R&D funding and military support from the Ministry of Defense. Even in the future, if the government wants to nationalize the company, Fangyuan Group can also attract more forces to oppose it.
As for the share incentive given to outstanding talents who have made significant contributions to the company, it has long been in Fang Lang's plan, and this kind of share Fang Lang will also restrict those who can only pay dividends and cannot be resold, and tie these talents to the company.
In the future, Kurt Tank and Rhema Horton will obviously be among the beneficiaries of this plan.
Ante Polman didn't expect such a surprise, and said in disbelief:
"Boss, are you serious?"
Fang Lang smiled slightly, nodded quietly, and said:
"Of course, but the company is still in the stage of continuous investment, and when the company can really stabilize and successfully gain a foothold in the aviation industry, I am ready to invest 5% of the company's shares in the employee equity incentive pool.
It shouldn't be long. A good company manager like you will naturally become a partner in the company. β
At this moment, Ante Polman actually had the excitement of dying as a confidant, but as for when Fang Lang said that he would gain a firm foothold in the aviation industry, he did not pay attention.
Looking at Ante Polman with an excited face, Fang Lang couldn't help but sigh, this kind of behavior of painting a big pie is really shameless and effective!
It is estimated that people are still relatively simple now, and they don't know much about the twists and turns, so it will be easy to get into the trap! If this is a social animal who has been disgusted by painting a big pie in later generations, it is estimated that he will directly scold his mother.
Mr. Ante Polman, the future partner who has been fully recognized by Fang Lang, has involuntarily produced a spirit of ownership at this moment, and bowed slightly to Fang Lang with excitement, full of gratitude:
"Thanks to the owner! I won't let you down. β
Fang Lang picked up the fair cup, added a cup of tea to the other party, and then said slowly:
"It's all your hard work, don't thank me!
Let's continue to talk about the person you found who can lead missile research! β
Ante Polman knocked in front of the teacup, thanked Fang Lang, and hurriedly said:
"The man we found was Hermann Obert, a German born in Austria-Hungary, who was involved in the development of the V-2 rocket at the PenemΓΌnde Research Center in 1941 and developed the A-9 and A-10 multi-stage rocket program.
Although he was not directly involved in the development of the later A-4 rocket engine, the famous V-2 rocket, the A-4 rocket was developed entirely on the basis of his theoretical framework.
In 1943, he was sent to the banks of the Elbe to study solid-propellant anti-aircraft rockets, becoming the first person to study anti-aircraft rockets. After the end of the European war, he was imprisoned by the United States for three months and was released in August 1945.
Now, I have left the United States and returned to Germany, where I am temporarily at home. β
With Ante Polman's explanation, Fang Lang's hand holding the teacup stopped in mid-air, looking at the other party dumbfounded, listening to the resume of this Hermann Aubert with some disbelief.
Don't say anything, just the name of the first person in the air defense rocket can make Fang Lang desperate to recruit the other party.
Not to mention the people who can be captured and imprisoned by the Americans, needless to say, are absolutely top talents.
After Ante Polman finished speaking, Fang Lang swallowed his saliva with some difficulty, and said with a little hesitation:
"Are you sure you can recruit such a person?"
Hearing this, Ante Polman said without hesitation:
"Boss, if you agree, tomorrow I will personally fly to Germany to meet this Hermann Obert. In any case, I am going to recruit this real specialist into our company. β
Fang Lang could feel Ante Polman's determination, since he knew that there was such a talent, of course Fang Lang would not let it go, even if it was a kidnapping, he must get the other party back, so he slapped the teacup in his hand on the tea tray vigorously.
Said in a resolute tone:
"Okay, in that case, then you can make a trip yourself.
At all costs, take down this top expert.
If the other side wishes, it can directly appoint the other party as the chief engineer of the missile research institute, and the other party can also be consulted on personnel recruitment.
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As for the benefits, I also grant you full authority, if there is any uncertainty in the case of a telegram to report back to the company, I will reply to you as soon as possible. β
Fang Lang directly agreed to his nomination without asking, and agreed with his own ideas, this trust made Ante Polman very happy, and he also had more enthusiasm for his work.
"Yes, boss! Please rest assured, I will take the other party at all costs. β
He patted Ante Polman's arm with great satisfaction, picked up the teacup in his hand and raised it to Ante Polman and said:
"Then I will replace the wine with tea, and I wish you success!"
The two teacups gently touched each other, making a crunch sound of "ding". The two of them drained the tea in their cups in one gulp, looked at each other and laughed.
Fang Lang is happy to have found an excellent missile talent, although it is not yet certain that the other party will definitely come to work in his company, but he still has confidence in Ante Polman.
After all, since the other party was able to pull Kurt Tanck and Rhema Horton into their own aircraft manufacturing company, which had not yet been established. There must be a way to get this rocket development talent who has just finished his prison career.
You must know that this guy was the one who dared to go to Bristol to fool around with some knowledge of the variable sweep wing that he had learned, and now he has a physical company as big as himself behind him.
Coupled with the strength of the Fangyuan Group, he believed that the other party would definitely have a way to recruit this Mr. Hermann Obert.
What Fang Lang didn't know was that the historical Mr. Hermann Aubert was a big bull, and later generations were known as the father of European rocketry, one of the founders of modern astronautics, and a pioneer of aerospace on a par with Tsiolkovsky and Goddard.
His classic work on rocket propulsion is regarded by an entire generation of engineers as the "bible" in the field of astronautics.
Historically, he was recruited by the United States in 1951 to cooperate with von Braun, known as the father of missiles, to conduct missile and space technology research in the United States.
In 1955~1958, he worked as a consultant for the Army Redstone Arsenal in the United States. During this period, he wrote two books, one on the possibility of rocket development in ten years, and the other on the possibility of human landing on the moon and back and forth.
What is really rare is that he is not only a research-oriented talent, but also an academic talent, that is to say, as long as this big bull can come to Brazil to work, the school that Fang Lang originally established in order to cultivate talents in the aircraft manufacturing industry will soon become a science and engineering college with world-class bulls teaching.
Of course, Fang Lang doesn't know any of these now, he only knows that the talents who were able to preside over the development of air defense rockets during World War II and were imprisoned by the Americans are definitely a few experts.
If you dig each other up, you can't go wrong.
"By the way, since you are going to Germany in person this time, there is one more thing I want to entrust to you."
Ante Polman, who had just put down the teacup, heard this, and hurriedly sat down and said:
"Boss, please command!"
Fang Lang picked up the teapot and continued to start making tea, saying while making tea:
"Today I had a long chat with Mr. Rhema Houghton, and I authorized him to set up a research and development team for civil airliners, and the main business of our airline in the future will be civil airliners.
However, what I want to study is not the current propeller airliner, but the jet airliner. After I communicated with him and talked about some of my ideas, he also accepted the task.
So, you have to support his work so that we can have a foothold in the civil aviation market, and that's my plan to start with the conversion business and enter this industry.
Your future priorities will be to push the project forward and maintain relationships with the airlines that have entrusted us with the conversion business.
Once our research project is successful, you have to go through them to quickly get orders and open up the market.
And if you want to carry out the research of this project, the company's R&D personnel are obviously not enough now, so this time you go to Europe, not only to recruit talents in missile research.
It is also necessary to recruit talents for the research of civil aviation passenger aircraft, and do not limit your eyes to Germany, Britain and France, which are traditional European powers, as long as there are talents in related fields, we will not let go.
There is a new power research and development task in this project, and there should be no relevant research in the United Kingdom and the United States and other countries, but as far as I know, the aircraft engine research and development team of Mercedes-Benz in Germany has carried out research in this area.
This is a turbofan engine project codenamed DB670, and this time you go to Germany to see if there is a chance to bring back the R&D team of this project.
If you can't find the target, you can directly contact the person in charge of Mercedes-Benz and entrust the other party to help in the name of Fangyuan Group. I believe they should give us this face. β
Hearing this, Ante Polman looked solemn, he already knew Fang Lang's plan in his heart, the civil aviation field will definitely be the company's key business sector in the future, but he didn't expect this day to start so quickly.
And as soon as he came, he directly got on the jet civil airliner, which was obviously the rhythm of overtaking in the corner, and he immediately began to get excited when he understood all this.
You must know that the boss just promised him the identity of a partner in the future company, and with his understanding of the aircraft modification business during this time, the future civil aviation market will be a huge blue ocean!
If this project can be successful, it is hard to imagine how much his stake will be worth in the future.
As a professional in the field of German aviation, after hearing the engine code name mentioned by Fang, he immediately began to use his memory to search for this model.
It's a pity that there is no relevant memory, it seems that this is an engine project that did not succeed, but I don't know why the boss took a fancy to this project.
"Rest assured, boss, although I have not heard of this project, I am friends with many people in the Mercedes-Benz aircraft engine project. When I go to Germany and talk to them, I will soon find out about the project.
As long as these people are still in Germany, I will definitely bring them all back to the company. β
I have to say that it was a very wise choice to bring this Ante Polman under his command at the beginning, and it was precisely because of his existence that he was able to put up the frame of the aircraft manufacturing company in such a short period of time and achieve results so quickly.