Free balloon club Augsburg
| Free balloon club Augsburg (FVA) |
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| purpose | Balloon sport |
| Chair: | Johannes Dolpp |
| Establishment date: | May 30, 1901 |
| Seat : | augsburg |
| Website: | www.augsburg-ballon.de |
The Augsburg Free Balloon Club is the world's oldest active air sports club . He has been doing balloon sport in Augsburg since 1901 .
history
1901-1945
The association was founded on May 30, 1901 under the name Augsburger Verein für Luftschiffahrt e. V. (AVfL). The entry in the register of associations took place with a decision of the royal district court Augsburg on August 12, 1901 with 29 members.
On April 1, 1902, August von Parseval, chairman , had 114 members; including August Riedinger , the founder of the Augsburg balloon factory .
On October 1, 1937, the gas balloons "Augusta IV" and "Augusta V" were expropriated in favor of the newly founded NSFK .
After the last trip of the "Augusta IV" free balloon on August 24, 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War , operations were suspended until 1952. The route manager and pilot of the last free balloon trip, Ernst Frank Sr. stored the "Augusta IV" and "Augusta V" balloons and saved them until 1945.
From 1945
In 1945 Ernst Frank sen. the aging balloons on the mediation of the American military government against machine tools, which he in turn sold on behalf of the association in 1952 to finance the new free balloon "Augusta VI".
On September 10, 1952, the Freiballonverein Augsburg e. V. formerly Augsburg Association for Aviation, founded in 1901, entered in the register of associations. The new “Augusta VI” free balloon was christened on October 19, 1952 from the Rosenaustadion to Achsheim ; The balloon pilot was again Ernst Frank Sr. The balloon baptism, which was postponed several times due to the weather, met with great interest from the population. The current status of the preparations was reported on Bavarian radio and in the newspapers. The Augsburg tram carried yellow "balloon pennants" onto their car on the Sunday morning of the planned balloon baptism in order to show the population the planned ascent of the balloon.
In 1976 the 1st gas balloon world championship was held and in 1984 the first hot air balloon was procured for the club.
Chair of the FVA since 1952
- Ernst Frank Sr. 1952-1956
- Hans Edgar Martini 1956-1958
- Horst Haßold 1958–1969
- Rudolf Schmidt 1969–1973
- Robert Bader 1973–1979
- Karl Rubner 1979–1987
- Horst Haßold 1987-1991
- Horst Braunwalder 1991–1999
- Ulf Weisser 1999-2005
- Wulf Bergner 2005–2011
- Rainer Haßold 2011–2019
- Johannes Dolpp since 2019
Members, passengers and rides
The writer, cabaret artist and painter Joachim Ringelnatz took part in a race with car tracking as a guest on June 10, 1928. This resulted in his poem Free balloon ride with car tracking .
On May 27, 1931, after taking off from Augsburg , the Swiss professor Auguste Piccard reached 15,785 m in a stratospheric balloon. On board was his assistant, engineer Paul Kipfer. The journey ended after 17 hours on the Hochgurgler Glacier in the Tyrolean Ötztal.
Joseph William Kittinger , who set several world records in aviation, is a member of the FVA. He holds the following world records, which have not been exceeded to this day: Highest balloon flight with an open gondola, highest speed of a person without a special protective cover, longest free fall and longest parachute jump.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ History. Ballonfabrik Augsburg, 2009, archived from the original on March 10, 2009 ; accessed on November 18, 2017 .
- ^ Joachim Ringelnatz : Free balloon ride with car tracking . Poem. In: airplane thoughts . Ernst Rowohlt Verlag, Berlin 1929, pp. 44–48 ( Wikisource )