Eduard Nittner

Eduard Nittner

Eduard Nittner (born February 5, 1885 in Gorizia , † February 17, 1913 in Fischamend ) was an Austrian officer in the aviation troops and aviation pioneer .

Life

He gained particular fame through his flight on May 3, 1912, when he crossed the Semmering Pass with an Etrich Taube on the way from Wiener Neustadt to Graz . It was the first time that an Alpine pass was flown over in Austria.

Lieutenant Nittner was killed in a plane crash at Fischamend airfield the following year . The only 28-year-old found his final resting place in the grave of the Nittner family at Pötzleinsdorfer Friedhof (group B, row 8, number 116) in Vienna, where his parents Eduard (1835–1916) and Bertha (1856–1907) are also buried. The grave site was abandoned in 2005.

Monuments

At the top of the pass in Semmering , the Nittner monument commemorates the technical masterpiece of the overflight.

In the park of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt , the Nittner Petrovics Monument was unveiled in 1913 in honor of Nittner and Lieutenant Aristid von Petrovics, who had died in an accident in 1912. The names of other flight officers who had died in the service were later added, so that the memorial is now known as the Fliegerstein .

There is also a monument to Nittner in Fischamend.

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  Monument on Semmering

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  Monument in Fischamend

The part of Graz-Thalerhof Airport (consisting of barracks , hangars and an aircraft yard, all to the west of the runway) used by the Austrian Armed Forces until 2018 has been known as Nittner Air Base . Furthermore, in Graz-Straßgang, the “Nittnergasse” and the streets “Eduard-Nittner-Straße” and “Eduard-Nittner-Feld” in Hörsching are named after him.

literature

• Peter Broucek :  Nittner Eduard. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 7, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 137.

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