Junkers

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.

Plot
As it was in reality, he is a German aircraft engineer and designer and a founder of 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. So Jiro Horikoshi and Kirō Honjō could travel to Nazi Germany for study. His models and Junkers G.38 help the Japanese company to design their own planes  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.

Hugo Junkers