Edmund Schneider (designer)
Edmund Schneider (born July 26, 1901 in Ravensburg , † July 5, 1968 in Rottach-Egern ) was a German aircraft designer and owner of a factory for gliders .
Career
After completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter in Memmingen , he applied to the air force at the end of the First World War . He was found unfit to fly , but was used as a carpenter in the Schleissheim aircraft yard , where military aircraft were repaired and he was able to study the construction of the fighter and bomber planes of the Pfalz , Albatros , LFG , Fokker and Junkers . After the end of the war he went to the German air police and traveled to the Wasserkuppe in the spring of 1923 after learning of the motorless flight in the Rhön. He met Gottlob Espenlaub - also carpenters - and helped in the completion of its own design gliders Espenlaub 4 and Espenlaub 5 to Rhön competition in the summer of 1923. In the fall of 1923, he went along with a leaf at the invitation of a local branch of the Federal German plane to Grunau at Hirschberg in Silesia . In winter, the construction of an easy-to-build and flying stable school glider was developed in Grunau , which after a few modifications finally led to the ESG-9 - the standard beginner glider. While Espenlaub later went to Kassel, Schneider settled down in Grunau, and in 1928 Edmund Schneider started his own business with glider construction . His most famous construction, the Grunau Baby , from 1931 was built around 3000 times in his own company in Grunau alone. In addition to the company's own aircraft, the Wiesenbaude 1 and Wiesenbaude 2 gliders were built to order for Eugen Bönsch or the fuselage of the Moazagotl by Wolf Hirth , who was the headmaster of the Grunau glider school in 1931/1932.
Due to the increasing demand on the part of the NSFK , Schneider employed over 350 people in two plants in 1939. At the end of the Second World War , Schneider left his businesses behind and fled with his family to Mühlhofen on Lake Constance. The ES-49 draft was created, a copy of which has been preserved on the Wasserkuppe. At the invitation of the Australian Aero Club, the Schneider family emigrated to Australia in 1951. Other well-known gliders such as the Schneider ES-52 Kookaburra and the ES-60 Boomerang were built in Australia in Schneider's new factory in Adelaide . In addition, a license version of the Schleicher Ka 6 was created in Australia. Schneider died on July 5, 1968 while visiting Germany.
swell
- Peter F. Selinger: Schneider, Edmund. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 285 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schneider, Edmund |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aircraft designer and owner of a glider factory |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ravensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th July 1968 |
| Place of death | Rottach-Egern |