Anton Herman Gerard 'Anthony' Fokker (April 6, 1890 – December 23, 1939), was born in Kediri (Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia) and became a Dutch aircraft manufacturer.
Fokker moved back to the Netherlands and started a new aircraft company in 1919.
Anthony Fokker was the inventor of the interrupter gear.
The Fokker D.VIII (also E.V) was a late World War I parasol-monoplane fighter aircraft designed by AntonFokker Rheinhold Platz at the Fokker company.
Fokker and Platz had been working on a series of experimental planes starting in 1916, all based on a cantilever structure instead of external bracing in order to reduce drag.
Fokker was just as interested in it, as it was perhaps the only new design that still used the Oberursel engine, a factory he had purchased in 1916.
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