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Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel (English: / ˈ d iː z əl ˌ-s əl /, [1] German: ⓘ; 18 March 1858 – 29 September 1913) was a German [note 1] inventor and mechanical engineer who invented the Diesel engine, which burns Diesel fuel; both are named after him.
Rudolf Diels (16 December 1900 – 18 November 1957) was a German civil servant and head of the Gestapo in 1933–34. [2] He obtained the rank of SS- Oberführer and was a protégé of Hermann Göring .
It portrays the life of Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor of the diesel engine. [1] It was one of a series of prestigious biopics made in Nazi Germany portraying genius inventors or artists struggling against the societies in which they live. The film was based on a biography by Eugen Diesel, one of Diesel's children.
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On 29 September 1913 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer who invented the diesel engine, boarded Dresden at Antwerp, Belgium on his way to a meeting in London. [3] He retired to his cabin about 22:00 with a request to be called at 06:15 in the morning, but he was not seen alive again.
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Okay, then let me use a different approach: Rudolf Diesel was a German with a German name. If native English speakers check Wikipedia to verify his name's correct pronounciation, then why would we provide a pronounciation that is only common among a limited group of native English speakers, and that Germans, including Rudolf Diesel, would not use?