{"id":32435732,"date":"2026-11-12T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T09:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fokker-d-vii-wwi-fighter-armistice-surrender-reinhold-platz-bmw\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T09:32:17","slug":"fokker-d-vii-wwi-fighter-armistice-surrender-reinhold-platz-bmw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/fokker-d-vii-wwi-fighter-armistice-surrender-reinhold-platz-bmw\/","title":{"rendered":"Fokker D.VII: The Fighter the 1918 Armistice Named"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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Not one gun or mortar was named by type. Then, in brackets, came a single exception: &ldquo;firstly all D. 7&rsquo;s.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n<p>The aircraft that earned that line was the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fokker-d-vii\/\">Fokker D.VII<\/a>, a square-cut, slightly awkward-looking biplane that had only reached the front in the spring of 1918. In barely six months it convinced the people drafting the Armistice that it was the one German aircraft they could not afford to leave in German hands.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Type:<\/strong> Single-seat biplane fighter<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Designer:<\/strong> Reinhold Platz, Fokker-Flugzeugwerke<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Selected:<\/strong> Adlershof fighter competition, January 1918<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Front-line service:<\/strong> From spring 1918<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Engines:<\/strong> Mercedes D.III series six-cylinder; later 185 hp BMW IIIa in the D.VII(F)<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Armament:<\/strong> Two 7.92 mm Spandau machine guns<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Top speed:<\/strong> About 120 mph (Mercedes), 124 mph (BMW), per the US Air Force museum<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Armistice:<\/strong> Article IV demanded 1,700 aeroplanes, &ldquo;firstly all D. 7&rsquo;s&rdquo;<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>After the war:<\/strong> Fokker smuggled 220 aircraft to the Netherlands, 120 of them D.VIIs (Smithsonian)<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Born at Adlershof<\/h2>\n\n<p>By late 1917 the Allies had regained control of the air over the Western Front with fighters such as the S.E.5 and the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/spad-xiii\/\">SPAD<\/a>. Germany&rsquo;s answer was a fighter competition at Adlershof airfield in Berlin in January 1918. For the first time, front-line pilots would test the prototypes and help pick the winner. According to the Smithsonian, 31 aircraft from ten manufacturers took part.<\/p>\n\n<p>Fokker entered the V 11, the work of chief designer Reinhold Platz. Its secret was a thick, cantilever wing section, which gave it plenty of lift and gentle stall behaviour. The Smithsonian is blunt about who deserved the credit: Platz was the true creative force behind the famous Fokker fighters, while Anthony Fokker&rsquo;s gift lay in test flying and knowing exactly what to change.<\/p>\n\n<p>Manfred von Richthofen flew the V 11 on 23 January and found it manoeuvrable but tricky and directionally unstable in a dive. Fokker lengthened the fuselage by 40 cm, added a fixed fin and reshaped the rudder. The Red Baron flew it again, now found it delightful, and his endorsement went far towards the selection of the type. Fokker received an order for 400 aircraft, designated D.VII.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mlyKkhILeVU\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum on its Fokker D.VII and the fighter that gave Germany back the edge in 1918.<\/p>\n\n<p>Fokker&rsquo;s factory could not build them fast enough, so the authorities ordered his great rival Albatros to produce the D.VII under licence at Johannisthal and Schneidem&uuml;hl. Fokker worked from jigs rather than drawings, so Albatros had to measure a finished airframe and draw its own plans. The licence-built aircraft were generally considered better made than Fokker&rsquo;s own.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The fighter that could hang on its propeller<\/h2>\n\n<p>When the D.VII appeared over the front, Allied pilots at first underestimated it because of its ungainly looks. They revised that view quickly. The thick wing let a D.VII pilot sit below and behind an Allied two-seater, out of reach of the observer&rsquo;s gun, pull the nose up at full power in a nearly stalled condition, and fire into the unprotected underside. The Smithsonian calls the result &ldquo;a highly feared opponent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/fokker-d-vii-jasta-72-bergnicourt-1918.jpg\" alt=\"A line of German Fokker D.VII fighters of Jasta 72 parked at Bergnicourt in July 1918, the nearest marked with an M\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Fokker D.VII fighters of Jasta 72 lined up at Bergnicourt, France, in July 1918, at the height of the type&rsquo;s summer on the Western Front. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Fokker_D.VII_of_Jasta_72_at_Bergnicourt_1918.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unknown photographer \/ Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Richthofen never flew it in combat: he was killed in April 1918, just before the D.VII reached the Jagdstaffeln. Others, including Hermann G&ouml;ring and Erich L&ouml;wenhardt, scored heavily with it. The US Air Force museum credits German pilots with 565 victories over Allied aircraft in August 1918 alone. The type was not flawless; some aircraft shed upper-wing fabric, and engine heat could ignite phosphorus ammunition until extra cooling louvres were added.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;The German Fokker D.VII is frequently cited as one of the best fighter aircraft of the First World War.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum<\/strong> &mdash; Collection description of its Fokker D.VII<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Max Friz and the BMW IIIa<\/h2>\n\n<p>The early D.VII used the Mercedes D.III family of six-cylinder engines, rated at around 160 to 180 horsepower depending on version and source. By summer 1918 that was no longer enough. The breakthrough came from the young Bavarian firm BMW, whose head designer Max Friz had built the BMW IIIa, a 185-horsepower straight-six designed to keep its power at altitude.<\/p>\n\n<p>Friz used a larger displacement and a higher compression ratio than the engine strictly needed at sea level. A special carburettor with two levers, one for normal flight and one for high altitude, kept the engine alive as the air thinned. The catch was that a pilot could not simply open the throttle on take-off.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;To avoid engine overload, it had to be throttled back at take-off and low flying altitudes.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>BMW Group<\/strong> &mdash; Press history of the BMW IIIa aero engine, 2009<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to BMW&rsquo;s own history, the throttle valves were only opened fully once the aircraft reached 3,500 to 4,000 metres, so the IIIa lost less power at altitude than other engines. Fokker-built aircraft with the BMW were known as the D.VII(F), the F standing for Friz. The US Air Force museum gives the BMW version a ceiling of 21,000 feet against 18,000 for the Mercedes aircraft. Pilots fought over them, but BMW could only make the engine in limited numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zs1JsknjvBc\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">The Great War channel explains how the Fokker D.VII changed the balance in the air over the Western Front.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">&ldquo;Firstly all D. 7&rsquo;s&rdquo;<\/h2>\n\n<p>Exactly how many D.VIIs were built is one of the type&rsquo;s small mysteries; published totals range from the Smithsonian&rsquo;s estimate of about 1,000 to more than 1,700 in the US Air Force museum&rsquo;s count, and higher still in other references. The Deutsches Museum says more than 760 were in service with 48 German fighter squadrons by 11 November 1918.<\/p>\n\n<p>What is not in doubt is what the Allies thought of it. Article IV of the Armistice, signed in the railway carriage at Compi&egrave;gne, demanded the surrender of equipment in good condition, and the only weapon it singled out by type was the D.VII.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #d32f2f;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7\"><div><em>&ldquo;Surrender in good condition by the German armies of the following equipment: 5,000 guns (2,500 heavy, 2,500 field), 25,000 machine guns, 3,000 trench mortars, 1,700 aeroplanes (fighters, bombers&mdash;firstly all D. 7&rsquo;s and night-bombing machines).&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Armistice with Germany<\/strong> &mdash; Article IV, signed at Compi&egrave;gne, 11 November 1918 (US Office of the Historian text)<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Deutsches Museum describes it as the only aircraft explicitly mentioned in the Armistice agreement. The Smithsonian goes further, saying the clause succinctly attests to the general high regard for the aeroplane. The Allies then carried off their prizes: the US Army and Navy evaluated 142 captured examples, and France, Britain and Canada took their own share.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/fokker-d-vii-surrendered-armistice-hangar-1919.jpg\" alt=\"Two German biplane fighters, catalogued as Fokker D.VIIs, in a wooden hangar after being surrendered to the Allies under the Armistice\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">German aircraft in a hangar after being surrendered to the Allies under the terms of the Armistice; the US National Archives print, received in January 1919, is catalogued as showing Fokker D.VIIs. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Airplanes_-_Types_-_German_hangar_and_aeroplanes_surrounded_to_the_Allies_in_accordance_with_the_terms_of_the_Armistice._Fokken_D-7%27s_-_NARA_-_17342255.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Western Newspaper Union \/ US National Archives via Wikimedia Commons, public domain<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>One of the strangest captures happened two days before the war ended. On 9 November 1918, Leutnant Heinz Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay of Jasta 65 landed his Albatros-built D.VII at a forward American airfield near Verdun used by the 95th Aero Squadron. He said he was lost; the Smithsonian notes it is uncertain whether he simply chose to surrender. His aircraft, U.10, now hangs in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Smuggled to the Netherlands<\/h2>\n\n<p>Anthony Fokker was Dutch, and he had no intention of letting the Armistice end his business. In the chaos after the war he moved aircraft and parts out of Germany to his native Netherlands by rail. According to the Smithsonian, 120 of the 220 aircraft he smuggled out were D.VIIs and 60 were the two-seat Fokker C.I derived from it.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/11\/fokker-d-vii-u10-jasta-65-national-air-space-museum.jpg\" alt=\"Nose and lozenge-camouflaged wings of the Fokker D.VII U.10 of Jasta 65 on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">U.10, the Albatros-built D.VII of Jasta 65 that Leutnant Heinz von Beaulieu-Marconnay landed at an American airfield on 9 November 1918, on display at the National Air and Space Museum. Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Fokker_D.VII_at_NASM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arjun Sarup \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>He completed and sold them to a string of new customers. The Dutch, Swiss and Belgian air arms all flew the D.VII after the war, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/polish-air-force\/\">Polish Air Force<\/a> used about 50 of them, mainly for ground attack, during the Polish-Soviet War. The Netherlands naval air service kept its D.VIIs until 1937, almost two decades after the Allies had tried to make the type disappear.<\/p>\n\n<p>That Dutch navy service produced one of today&rsquo;s best survivors. A former Dutch naval D.VII was found by a US Army unit in a shed at Vilsbiburg in Bavaria in July 1945 and joined the Deutsches Museum collection in 1948. Its lozenge camouflage is authentic in style, but the museum notes that its serial number is fictional.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 8px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l4mDfbjx2ww\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;font-style:italic;margin:0 0 24px\">Pilot Ken Cassens flies the Fokker D.VII reproduction at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York State.<\/p>\n\n<p>The D.VII&rsquo;s story is a rare thing in aviation history: a verdict written into an international treaty. Generals and diplomats at Compi&egrave;gne did not bother to name a single German gun. They named one fighter, and in doing so they paid Reinhold Platz the biggest compliment any aircraft designer of the Great War ever received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sources: US Department of State Office of the Historian (Foreign Relations of the United States, Armistice terms 1918), Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of the US Air Force, Deutsches Museum, BMW Group Press<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<p class=\"mf-photo-credits\" data-no-translation style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;font-style:italic;margin:6px 0 18px\">Header photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Fokker_D.VII_at_Canada_Aviation_and_Space_Museum_June_2025.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JustSomePics \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Why did the Armistice demand the Fokker D.VII?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Fokker D.VII was considered the best German fighter of 1918. Article IV of the Armistice of 11 November 1918 required Germany to surrender 1,700 aeroplanes, &ldquo;firstly all D. 7&rsquo;s and night-bombing machines&rdquo;. It was the only weapon in that clause named by type, which the Smithsonian says attests to the high regard for the aircraft.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Who designed the Fokker D.VII?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Fokker D.VII was designed by Reinhold Platz, chief designer of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Smithsonian calls Platz the true creative force behind the famous Fokker fighters, while Anthony Fokker refined the prototype through test flying, lengthening the fuselage and adding a fixed fin after Manfred von Richthofen found it unstable.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What engine did the Fokker D.VII use?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Most Fokker D.VIIs used Mercedes D.III series six-cylinder engines. From mid-1918 some received the 185 hp BMW IIIa designed by Max Friz, which kept its power at altitude and had to be throttled back at low level. Fokker-built BMW aircraft were called D.VII(F), and the engine was only available in limited numbers.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why was the Fokker D.VII so good?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Fokker D.VII had a thick cantilever wing that gave strong lift and docile stall behaviour. Pilots could hang it on its propeller in a nose-high, nearly stalled attitude and fire into the unprotected underside of Allied two-seaters. With the BMW IIIa engine its high-altitude performance improved dramatically.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did Anthony Fokker smuggle aircraft out of Germany?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Yes. After the Armistice, Anthony Fokker moved aircraft and parts from Germany to his native Netherlands by rail. According to the Smithsonian, 120 of the 220 aircraft he smuggled out were Fokker D.VIIs and 60 were Fokker C.I two-seaters. He then completed and sold D.VIIs to post-war air forces.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Where can you see an original Fokker D.VII?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Original Fokker D.VIIs survive in several museums, including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, which displays U.10 of Jasta 65, the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa, and the RAF Museum in London. A former Dutch navy D.VII from the Deutsches Museum was scheduled to go on loan to Soesterberg from July 2025.<\/div><\/details><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"FAQPage\",\"mainEntity\":[{\"@type\":\"Question\",\"name\":\"Why did the Armistice demand the Fokker D.VII?\",\"acceptedAnswer\":{\"@type\":\"Answer\",\"text\":\"The Fokker D.VII was considered the best German fighter of 1918. 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