Erich Frodermann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Erich Frodermann (born March 10, 1912 in Bad Oeynhausen ; † November 27, 1981 ) was a German fireworker .

Career

After graduating from high school, Frodermann did an internship in mechanical engineering and from 1932 trained as a fireworker at the fireworks school of the Reichswehr in Berlin-Lichterfelde. After the engineering exam he went to the air force in Bavaria. In 1938 he was transferred to the fireworks school in Halle (Saale). With the first attacks by the British Air Force during World War II , he was classified as one of the first to defuse duds. He became the leader of a demolition squad and trained other fireworkers. Towards the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he returned in 1949.

In Bavaria he joined the ordnance disposal department in the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior and was assigned to work in the greater Nuremberg area. After defusing Hummelsteiner bomb , a 10 Zentner - aerial mine , defusing the city of Nuremberg two days was held in suspense long in the summer of 1951, he was appointed as the second person with the recently newly created in October 1951 Merit Award. Two years later, in September 1953, he succeeded in defusing a 40-hundredweight aerial mine that had been found during construction work below Nuremberg Castle , the largest dud of the war to date .

In 1956 he went to North Rhine-Westphalia, in the summer of 1958 he was called to Hamburg, where shovel excavators unearthed numerous British and American bombs in the Elbe . In 1962 he succeeded Walter Merz as head of the dud clearance department at the Hamburg building authorities. To locate bombs under water, he developed a new method in which he used a flushing magnet . Among other things, he had a disused landing craft of the German Navy converted into the magnetic recovery ship "Wilhelm Westermann". In 1974 he retired with the rank of senior building officer . During his 42 years of work, he defused over 2500 bombs.

Honors

  • 1951: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1953: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 1972: Honorary certificate from the Senate on the occasion of his 40th anniversary of service

Web links

Commons : Erich Frodermann  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notices  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.4 MB) in the Hamburger Abendblatt , December 11, 1981@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de  
  2. ↑ More than 2500 bombs defused in forty years  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.8 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de   , In: Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 77 of April 1, 1972, p. 9
  3. ↑ Cross of Merit for a courageous demolition master , In: Passauer Neue Presse, issue no.116 of October 4, 1951, p. 3
  4. ↑ Successful defusing of the 40-hundredweight air mine , In: Passauer Neue Presse, issue no. 150 of September 26, 1953, p. 3
  5. ↑ A bomb clearer from the very beginning  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.abendblatt.de   , In: Hamburger Abendblatt, No. 289 of December 12, 1981, p. 5
  6. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 3, No. 250, December 29, 1951.
personal data
SURNAME Frodermann, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German fireworkers
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Oeynhausen
DATE OF DEATH November 27, 1981