Fritz Stamer

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Friedrich Stamer (born November 28, 1897 in Hanover , † December 20, 1969 in Oberursel (Taunus) ) was a German pilot , flight instructor and aircraft designer. After the First World War, Stamer was instrumental in training single-seaters on gliders in Germany.

Life

After primary school, Stamer attended grammar school. He became a member of the youth movement and entered the First World War in 1914 . In Langemark he was wounded. After his recovery he was trained as a pilot at FEA 5 in Hanover and passed his field pilot examination in 1917. On August 14, 1918 he was shot down near Lunéville with his DFW CV of the Fliegerabteilung (A) 242 and imprisoned for one and a half years in the Etranches Aviation Prison. After his release on February 28, 1920, he first finished his architecture studies in order to work as an assistant at Weltensegler GmbH , close to the Reichswehr, on the Wasserkuppe in 1921 . During his activity as a flight instructor or head of the flight school, a number of members of the Reichswehr in "civilian clothes" became qualified to pilot a glider.

On July 1, 1924, Stamer moved to the newly founded Martens flight school, which in turn was taken over on October 1, 1925 by the Rhön-Rossitten-Gesellschaft (RRG). Until May 1933, Stamer worked here both as a flight instructor and as head of the flight school department. Together with Alexander Lippisch , his future brother-in-law, who headed the design office of the RRG, he developed the school glider RRG-Zögling . In his function as headmaster he developed the method of ab initio pilot training in single-seater with A, B and C exams, which was practiced practically unchanged until the 1960s. In this context, Stamer also created the glider badges with one, two and three silvery seagulls on a blue background.

RRG rocket duck (replica in the German Glider Museum )

On June 10 and June 11, 1928, he was the first person to fly a rocket-propelled glider of the RRG-Ente type . After the third flight, however, the machine burned out.

Stamer joined the NSDAP on August 1, 1932 (membership number 1145800) and became a member of the SA .

In May 1933, Stamer was relieved of his post at RRG and transferred to the headquarters of the German Air Sports Association (DLV), Gliding Department (under Rittmeister Paulfranz Roehre) in Berlin. In 1934, Stamer returned as head of department at the meanwhile restructured German Research Institute for Glider Flight (DFS, formerly RRG). Until 1945 he stayed first in Griesheim and later in Ainring head of the Institute for Flight Tests at DFS.

When the German Aero Club was founded on August 4, 1950 after the end of the Second World War , Stamer was a founding member and took over the office of Secretary General and Vice President. A chronic illness forced him to resign from office in 1962.

After his death he was made honorary president of the German Aero Club. In Fulda, Fritz-Stamer-Strasse is named after him. In Gersfeld (Rhön) there is also a Fritz-Stamer-Straße with a sign for the first rocket-propelled flight.

Works

  • The construction of model aircraft. HG Media, Engelsband 1997, ISBN 3-931438-03-1 (reprint of the Berlin 1927 edition)
  • Gliding and gliding. Volckmann, Berlin
    • Vol. 1. Construction and practical flight tests (1927)
    • Vol. 2. Construction instructions and construction drawings (1928)
  • A gliding course in pictures . - Berlin: Klasing & Co, 1928, 2nd edition 1934
  • Guide for the young glider pilot . - Berlin, 1930
  • Guide for the young glider pilot . - Berlin, 1930
    • Vol. 1. Training, machines, tools, instruments (1930)
    • Vol. 2. Aerodynamics, statics, technical terms (1931)
  • Gliding and gliding training . - Berlin: Volckmann, Berlin, 1931
  • Twelve years of Wasserkuppe . - Berlin: Reimar Hobbing , 1933
  • Glider pilot . - Berlin: Teubner, 1936
  • Boys become aviators . - Stuttgart: Franckh, 1937
  • The dogfight . - Contribution to “Through the Wide World” Volume XV-1937
  • Paths over clouds . - Munich: Pohl, 1951
  • Gliding and gliding . - Wuppertal: Spohr, 1953

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RRG Rocket Duck. German Glider Museum, archived from the original on January 30, 2018 ; accessed on June 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ A gliding course in pictures . - Berlin: Klasing & Co, 2nd edition 1934.
personal data
SURNAME Stamer, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stamer, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pilot, flight instructor and aircraft designer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH 20th December 1969
Place of death Oberursel (Taunus)