German commercial aviation school
The German Commercial Aviation School ( DVS ) was a flight school in the German Reich during the Weimar Republic and National Socialism . DVS was founded on April 1st, 1925 in Berlin-Staaken and its headquarters were relocated to Braunschweig - Broitzem in 1929 .
The German commercial aviation schools that emerged in various places in the German Reich from 1925 , for example in List on Sylt , Warnemünde and Braunschweig , were actually camouflaged training centers and flying units of the military aviation prohibited by the Versailles Treaty , financed through secret channels of the German government, the Reichsmarine and the Reichswehr . Other such institutions were the Hanseatic Aviation School in Faßberg , the German Aviation Weather Service in Lechfeld and the Forest and Agricultural Flight Test Institute in Prenzlau . At the end of 1934 there were 41 military aviation associations in Germany disguised as civil organizations.
With the establishment of the Reich Aviation Ministry in 1933, all of these camouflaged military aviation facilities, including the German Air Traffic Aviation Schools , became the responsibility of this ministry and they were incorporated into the Luftwaffe when the Air Force was officially established on March 1, 1935.
In the post-war period, the newly founded flight schools, known as the “German Aviation School”, are no longer represented on the market.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dirk Richhardt: Selection and training of young officers 1930–1945. On the social genesis of the German officer corps . Dissertation, Department of History and Cultural Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg , 2002.
- ↑ Dieter Jung / Berndt Wenzel / Arno Abendroth: The ships and boats of the German sea pilots. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-469-7 , pp. 47, 57, 107, 110 and 394.
- ^ Herbert Molloy Mason: The Air Force. Origin, high point and decline of the German Air Force until 1945. Wilhelm Heyne, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-453-00986-X , p. 136.