Kurt Johannsen
GERMAN NAVAL COMMANDER (1915-1944)
Kurt Johannsen (bush mechanic); Kurt Johannsen (Bush Mechanic); Kurt Gerhardt Johannsen
Kurt Gerhardt Johannsen (11 January 1915 – 23 January 2002) was an Australian bush mechanic who developed the world's first commercial road train. He was also an aviator, fencing contractor, inventor, labourer, mailman and miner and known a "true son of the Red Centre", referring to the southern desert region of the Northern Territory in Australia.