Adolf Schöner

Adolf Schöner (born December 27, 1891 in Adersbach near Sinsheim , † August 18, 1976 there ) was a German aviation pioneer. During the First World War he served on several airships and was then airfield commander in Thorn. In the late 1930s he achieved some sporting success as a balloonist.

Life

After finishing school in Adersbach, Schöner did an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, then went on a hike and spent a year in Koblenz . He then completed an apprenticeship as a car mechanic in Düsseldorf . In 1912 he was called up for military service and was initially in St. Avold in Lorraine , from 1913 as a volunteer with the airship department in Metz , where he went with the airship LZ 20 (ZV) and climbed in tethered balloons . During the First World War he flew as a machine gun specialist and later as a machinist on the airships LZ 13 “Hansa” , LZ 78, LZ 79 and LZ 90. Mission trips took him to Russia, France, Belgium and England. From 1918 he was commissioned by the Reineckendorf office to collect war material in Posen. In 1919 he was the airfield commander in Thorn .

After Schöne resigned from military service in 1920, he worked in the penal service in Mannheim from 1921 . In the 1930s he founded a comradeship for balloon flights in Mannheim. In 1937 he won the gold medal in a balloon chase and in 1938 the German ballooning championship. After the Second World War, he also learned the glider and was involved in the reconstruction of gliding.

literature

• Käthe Zimmermann-Ebert: Large district town Sinsheim - around the Steinsberg , in it: From the life of the aviation pioneer Adolf Schöner , Sinsheim 1990