Question: Who designed the dive bomber to which the Heinkel He 118 lost out?
Context: The Polikarpov SPB (D) ("Skorostnoy Pikiruyushchy Bombardirovshchik (Dalnost)"—High Speed Dive Bomber (Distance)) was a Soviet twin-engined dive bomber designed before World War II.  A single prototype and five pre-production aircraft were built, but two crashed and the program was cancelled in favor of the Petlyakov Pe-2. The Junkers Ju 87 or Stuka (from "Sturzkampfflugzeug", "dive bomber") was a German dive bomber and ground-attack aircraft.  Designed by Hermann Pohlmann, it first flew in 1935.  The Ju 87 made its combat debut in 1937 with the Luftwaffe's Condor Legion during the Spanish Civil War and served the Axis forces in World War II. The Nord 1500 Noréclair was a prototype French twin-engined dive bomber and anti-submarine warfare aircraft built at the end of the Second World War.  It would have carried both torpedoes, missiles, and bombs.  The aircraft was built in response to a need for a dive bomber and anti-submarine aircraft that could be launched both from land and from an aircraft carrier.  The first prototype flew on 29 August 1947.  The tests revealed many issues that had to be resolved.  Eventually the project was abandoned after being criticized heavily and discovering many problems. The Heinkel He 50 was a German World War II-era dive bomber, originally designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy.  Serving in "Luftwaffe" prewar dive-bombing units, the He 50 served until almost the end of World War II as a night harassment bomber. Stuka, a German contraction of ""Sturzkampfflugzeug"" ("dive bomber") usually refers to the German Junkers Ju 87 dive bomber of World War II. The Aichi D1A or Navy Type 94/96 Carrier Bomber (Allied reporting name "Susie") was a Japanese carrier-based dive bomber of the 1930s.  A single-engine, two-seat biplane based on the Heinkel He 50, the D1A was produced by Aichi for the Imperial Japanese Navy, remaining in service as a trainer at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.  The D1A was produced in two variants, the D1A1 (Navy Type 94 Carrier Bomber), and the D1A2 (Navy Type 96 Carrier Bomber, sometimes referred to as the D2A.) The Douglas SBD Dauntless was a World War II American naval scout plane and dive bomber that was manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 through 1944.  The SBD ("Scout Bomber Douglas") was the United States Navy's main carrier-borne scout plane and dive bomber from mid-1940 through mid-1944.  The SBD was also flown by the United States Marine Corps, both from land air bases and aircraft carriers.  The SBD is best remembered as the bomber that delivered the fatal blows to the Japanese carriers at the Battle of Midway in June 1942.  The type earned its nickname "Slow But Deadly" (with the SBD initials) during this period. The 84th Combat Sustainment Group is an inactive United States Air Force (USAF) group last assigned to the 84th Combat Sustainment Wing at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, where it was inactivated in 2010.  The group was formed in 1942 as the 84th Bombardment Group, one of the first dive bomber units in the United States Army Air Corps and tested the Vultee Vengeance, proving that aircraft unsuitable as a dive bomber.  As an Operational Training Unit, it was the parent for several other bombardment groups, but from 1943 until it was disbanded in 1944, trained replacement aircrews as a Replacement Training Unit designated the 84th Fighter-Bomber Group. The Heinkel He 118 was a prototype German monoplane dive bomber design that lost out to the Junkers Ju 87 "Stuka" in the 1930s, and was never ordered by the "Luftwaffe". The Aichi D3A Type 99 Carrier Bomber, (Allied reporting name "Val") was a World War II carrier-borne dive bomber.  It was the primary dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), and participated in almost all IJN actions, including the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Answer: Hermann Pohlmann