Dr. Hugo Junkers is a minor character in the movie The Wind Rises directed by Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli. He is based on real German aircraft engineer and designer Hugo Junkers.
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As it was in reality, he is a German aircraft engineer and designer and a founder of Junkers company. He was one of the mainstays of the German aircraft industry in the years between World War I and World War II.
He signs a contract in 1925 with the company Mitsubishi Aircraft Company. So Jiro Horikoshi and Kiro Honjo could travel to Nazi Germany for study. His models Junkers F.13 and Junkers G.38 help the Japanese company to design their own planes Mitsubishi G3M and Mitsubishi A5M.
Later, Castorp tells Jirou in Karuizawa that Junkers got in trouble with Nazi Germany's government. In 1933 he was forced to sell half of his company to the state and leave his home in Dessau.