Fokker, << FOK uhr >> Anthony Herman Gerard (1890-1939), was a Dutch engineer, pilot, and aircraft manufacturer. He moved to Germany at the age of 20 and established his first manufacturing plant near Berlin when he was 22. Fokker designed monoplanes, biplanes, and triplanes. His factories supplied many airplanes for Germany in World War I. After the war, he set up plants in the Netherlands and the United States in which he manufactured several successful transport aircraft. Fokker was born in Kediri, Java (now part of Indonesia), on April 6, 1890. He died on Dec. 23, 1939.
