Aviation Museum

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The Aviation Museum was the first aviation museum in Berlin and existed from 1912 to 1932.

history

When the first international races in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, e.g. For example, when the Lanz Prize of the Air took place, especially in Berlin at the Johannisthal airfield , Franz Tolinski's restaurant there became a popular meeting place for aircraft mechanics, visitors to the airfield, employees and guests of JOFA AG, the volunteer fire brigade and from 1930 the sport friends Johannisthal .

Tolinski, who collected what was given to him or what was broken, called his collection relics from catastrophic airplane and balloon disasters and founded the Aviation Museum, i. H. aviation museum.

“The“ Fliegerklause ”, the“ Fliegerheim ”at Winkelmannstrasse 68 / corner of Haeckelstrasse (formerly Friedrichstrasse 17 / corner of Roonstrasse) was Franz Tolinski's Aviation Museum. The restaurant was built in the early days of the company, expanded in 1880 and converted into a pilot's home in 1912. The much-visited restaurant had an extensive and impressive aviation museum with photos and flying machines of well-known aviators as well as many fragments of crashed planes and airships. In the vernacular one spoke of the "Bruchmuseum". "

- Alexander Kauther, Paul Wirtz

In 1932 all the exhibits came to the German Aviation Collection in Berlin as the Tolinski Collection . The place is still today a pub called "Fliegerheim".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Kauther, Paul Wirtz: Restaurant and Bruchmuseum “Flieger-Heim Franz Tolinski” - History about and about the first aviation museum in Germany . Issue 2 from the documentation series on the Berlin – Johannisthal airfield 1909-1914, Grin-Verlag 2011, ISBN 3656025339

literature

  • Alexander Kauther, Paul Wirtz: Restaurant and Bruchmuseum “Flieger-Heim Franz Tolinski” - History about and about the first aviation museum in Germany . Issue 2 from the documentation series on the Berlin-Johannisthal airfield 1909-1914, Grin-Verlag 2011, ISBN 3656025339

Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 25.2 "  N , 13 ° 30 ′ 20.1"  E