Erich Thiele (engineer)

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Erich Thiele (1912)

Erich Thiele (born January 2, 1884 in Halle (Saale) ; † January 13, 1929 in Leipzig ) was a German engineer and aviation pioneer and one of the first holders of an official license for powered flight in Germany.

The aircraft designer Erich Thiele got to know the Leipzig publisher Bernhard Meyer (1860-1917), who had supported him financially since 1909 in the development of aircraft. On July 6, 1910 (according to other information on July 10, 1910) Thiele passed the officially required, internationally valid pilot's test at the Griesheim airfield in an Euler biplane . He then received the German pilot's license No. 13. His flight instructor was the holder of the first German pilot's license , August Euler .

In March 1911 Meyer and Thiele founded the Sächsische Flugzeug-Werke in Lindenthal near Leipzig, which was renamed Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (DFW) in November 1911 . Thiele became technical director of the aircraft works. In the same year he opened the DFW flying school. He managed to win the pilots Franz Büchner , Eugen Wiencziers and Heinrich Oelerich as flight instructors.

Thiele died in 1929 and was buried in the Leipzig North Cemetery.

In 2001 the former Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse in Leipzig-Lindenthal was named after Erich Thiele.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Kauther, Paul Wirtz: List of pilots 1909-1914 ("Old Eagles") with German flight license. (PDF; 645 kB) p. 6
  2. ^ Henry Serrano Villard: Contact! The Story of the Early Aviators. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC 1987, ISBN 0-486-42327-1 , p. 255
  3. ↑ Renaming of streets. Decision III-496/00 of December 6, 2000. In: Leipzig Official Journal , No. 26 of December 23, 2000
personal data
SURNAME Thiele, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle (Saale)
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1929
Place of death Leipzig