German Aviation Collection Berlin
The German Aviation Collection Berlin was the most extensive collection and exhibition on the history and technology of aviation. It was brought together in the early 1930s, with a few exceptions its exhibits were destroyed in the Second World War.
history
The aviation collection was initially presented in a hangar at Tempelhof Airport in 1924 . When the hangar was finally needed, the exhibits were temporarily stored in a magazine. After the abandonment of the Johannisthal airfield , the collection of the German Research Institute for Aviation , the collection of the German Society for Aviation and Space Travel and the collection of the Aviation Museum were added. All of this formed the basis for the “Aviation Museum of the City of Berlin”, which was created on the initiative of Georg Krupp . The Mayor of Berlin, Heinrich Sahm, opened the museum on November 15, 1932 in an empty factory building on Rudower Chaussee. This provisional facility was closed on December 1, 1934, in order to be presented again in the summer of 1936 at the beginning of the Olympic Games in the specially converted state exhibition building in Moabit, the ULAP Exhibition Palace. The collection was supplemented by parts of the Junkers teaching show from Dessau and all exhibits from the German Aviation Museum ( Leichtflugzeugbau Klemm ) in Böblingen . Krupp endeavored to buy more objects so that the collection was constantly expanded. The largest object was a Dornier Do X , the remains of which were still on the site until the 1960s. The administration was subordinate to the city of Berlin; the owner of this collection was the Berlin Airport Company. The honorary patronage was held by the Reich Minister of Aviation Hermann Göring , who contributed to the financing and also influenced the concept of the museum. During the Second World War, the museum was supposedly closed in 1941. Newspaper articles from the years 1942 and 1943 of the "German Sportflieger", however, show the aviation collection still open to the public with "lively strong visitors" (Sportflieger, May 6, 1943, p. 82).
Most of the exhibits were destroyed with the building in the war. However, other exhibits were relocated to Pomerania after the closure . The only parts found so far (20 exhibits) are now in the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow. So far there has been no agreement on the recovery of the exhibits. Holger Steinle is still looking for exhibits on behalf of the German Museum of Technology Berlin (DTMB). The search takes place via the Lost Art Internet database , which is operated by the coordination office for the loss of cultural property in Magdeburg. It is an institution of the Federation and the Länder of the Federal Republic of Germany.
inventory
Since no inventory list has been preserved, the determination is extremely difficult. The German Museum of Technology in Berlin tried to do this through photos; the coordination office for the loss of cultural property numbers 174 exhibits.
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photos
The area behind the main train station in 2012
The stairs are the last remnant of the exhibition grounds
The stairs in the demonstration model
The show model in the DTMB
One of Ernst Udet's Curtiss Hawk II belonged to the collection and is now on display in Krakow .
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literature
- August Dresel: The Junkers teaching show. A guided tour through the teaching show at Junkers Flugzeug- und Motorenwerke AG, Dessau. 30 years of Junkers aircraft research 1910–1940. Dessau 1936. / 2nd edition, Dessau 1939.
- Michael Hundertmark, Holger Steinle: Phoenix from the ashes. The German Aviation Collection Berlin. Silberstreif, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-924091-02-1 .
- Museum of Transport and Technology (Ed.): Hundred years of German aviation. Lilienthal and his heirs. Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1991, ISBN 3-570-07060-3 .
- Holger Steinle, Astrid Venn: Airplanes with a history. Heel, Königswinter 2009, ISBN 978-3-86852-206-8 .
- Christina Tilmann: Dispute over an aviation collection. In: Der Tagesspiegel from September 21, 2010. ( online )
- Holger Steinle: The Berlin Aviation Collection. In: Bauwelt , year 2010, issue 44, pp. 24-27. ( online (PDF; 783 kB) )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christina Tilmann: Dispute over an aviation collection. (see literature)
- ↑ Coordination office for the loss of cultural property: Lost Art Internet Database - Institution ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
