Ernst Canter

Ernst Canter ( aviator from Tannenberg ; * 1888 ; † November 30, 1956 in Zuffenhausen ) was a German officer and field pilot in the First World War.

At the end of September 1910 he came to the Döberitz Aviation School (converted into a training and research institute for military aviation in 1914 ), where Eugen von Tarnóczy (1886–1978) was his flight instructor. On February 8, 1913, Canter made an overland flight from Döberitz to Frankfurt am Main . At the end of March 1913, with Lieutenant Böhmer as an observer, he won the Prinz Heinrich flight , and was the only one to remain without breakage. At the end of August 1914 he and Lieutenant Karl Mertens (1887–1941) were able to decisively influence the course of the Battle of Tannenberg through aerial reconnaissance .

In 1919 he was head of the Berlin branch of the Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (later in Daimler-Benz AG ) and from 1934 sales manager of the Daimler-Benz-Werke in Mannheim. In 1943 he was major in the reserve. From 1951 he revived the Old Eagles Association with Alfred Friedrich .

literature

• Will and deed; a book to emulate ; ed. from the Reich Aviation Ministry u. edited by Friedrich v. Cochenhausen; Berlin, Riegler, 1936
• EF Cheesman: Reconnaissance & Bomber Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War ; Letchworth, UK, Harleyford, 1962

Web links

• Federal Archives : personal record of the mission as an aviator in the Battle of Tannenberg (1910-1914) , diary of the training and research institute for military aviation .. (1927-1957) , correspondence from the association "Die Alten Adler"
• Luftfahrtgeschichte.com
• samilitaryhistory.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Supf: The book of German flight history , Volume 2, p. 107
2. ↑ Christian Kehre: "Flying is still a dangerous game". Aviation technology risk and control from 1908 to 1914 . In: Gunter Gebauer (Ed.): Calculated risk. Technology, games and sports at the limit. Campus Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-593-38006-4 , pp. 199-224.