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Caspar C 32 of the ocean aviator Otto Könnecke

The Caspar-Werke AG were an aircraft factory on the Priwall in Travemünde 1921-1928.

history

The Caspar-Werke AG were in 1921 as successor of the Hamburg Hanseatic Aircraft Karl Caspar AG founded by the former since 1918 Fokker used -Werk in Travemuende. This predecessor company was founded in 1911 by Karl Caspar and merged shortly before the outbreak of the First World War with Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke to form Hansa- and Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke AG (HBF). Karl Caspar bought back his shares after the end of his military service, re-founded the company in Hamburg in 1917 and renamed it Caspar Werke GmbH in 1918 . In 1921 the part of the company located in Travemünde-Priwall became an independent aircraft construction company. The chief designer was initially Ernst Heinkel , who among other things developed the prototypes U 1 and U 2 of an aircraft with removable wings for transport in submarines . When he left at the end of 1921 to start his own company , Karl Theiss became his successor, who, however, left the company again in 1924 and was replaced by Ernst von Loessl and later by Reinhold Mewes. In 1923 the form of the company was converted into a partnership limited by shares and then renamed Caspar-Werke AG in 1925 . At that time she took part in the German sightseeing flights with numerous designs. Among other things, the C 32 , one of the world's first agricultural aircraft, was built in 1927 . She was able to spray 750 kg of pesticide . In April 1928, however, the company had to file for bankruptcy due to a lack of orders. In 1927 Otto Könnecke attempted the first circumnavigation of the world with a converted C 32 under the name "Germania" , but failed with engine failure in India .

Since Germany was not allowed to build military aircraft under the Versailles Treaty , the individual parts were smuggled abroad and assembled there, mostly at the Swedish company Svenska Aero . In the Lohmann affair in 1927 it was discovered that the Caspar-Werke had been secretly bought up by the Reichsmarine through a front company in 1926, presumably because they were about to go bankrupt . In April 1928 the company went bankrupt due to a lack of orders. The site continued to be used by the See trial site .

Airplane models

  • 1922: SI (sea reconnaissance), U 1 , U 2 (submarine-based sea reconnaissance)
  • 1923: S II (maritime patrol); CT 1 - CT 5 (sports double decker in timber construction); CLE 11 (small touring aircraft in the form of a cantilever high-decker in wooden construction for two passengers), CLE 12 (commercial aircraft for eight passengers)
  • 1924: CJ 14, CS 14 (fighters), CLE 16 (improved CLE 11 for three passengers)
  • 1925: C 17 (two-seater cantilever low-wing aircraft in wooden construction), C 23, C 24, C 26 (training and sport aircraft, took part in the German round flight in 1925 )
  • 1926: C 27 (sea training aircraft), C 29 , C 30 (sea reconnaissance aircraft)
  • 1927: C 32 (agricultural aircraft), C 35 Priwall (passenger aircraft, 2 + 8 seats, used by Deutsche Luft Hansa as a cargo aircraft)
  • 1928: C 33 (training aircraft, two-seater biplane in wooden construction), C 36 W (sea reconnaissance aircraft, also as a land version)

See also

literature

  • Bodo Dirschauer: Lübeck aviation history: Aircraft construction on the Priwall and in Lübeck from 1914 to 1934 . Steintor-Verlag, Lübeck 1995, ISBN 3-9801506-1-5 .
  • Christine Vogt-Müller, Ulrich Nieschalk: Aviation on the Priwall . The history of Lübeck-Travemünde Airport. Non-profit association Travemünde eV, 1995, ISBN 3-00-000321-5 , p. 43-45 .

Web links

Commons : Caspar-Werke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FliegerRevue September 2009, pp. 58–61, Caspar and Dornier