Ernst Jachtmann

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Ernst Jachtmann (born May 2, 1907 in Darmstadt ; † May 8, 1980 in Unterammergau ) was a German aviation pioneer .

Life

Ernst Jachtmann came into contact with the beginnings of aviation at the Griesheim airfield and the aviation pioneer August Euler as a child . Jachtmann first learned the profession of electromechanic . After the First World War, flying was banned in Germany. Immediately after the ban was relaxed, the "Hessenflieger" was founded. Jachtmann then became a member of the "Hessenflieger". He gained his first flying experience at the Wasserkuppe airfield . Then Jachtmann pushed ahead with the aircraft towing method of winch launch , alongside Robert Kronfeld . In 1931 he set the "mountain road record" with a flight time of five and a half hours. Then he worked as a flight instructor in the Odenwald . During the Nazi era he worked as a glider instructor and NSFK - Sturmbannführer on the airfield in Griesheim.

In 1937, with the RM 4 designed by Richard Mihm, from the island of Sylt he set a new record with a flight time of 41 hours. Jachtmann switched to Lufthansa a few years later , where he flew transport aircraft. In June 1938 he set a new world record for two-seaters at the Rote Kliff with 17 hours 22 minutes. In 1942 he was seriously injured in a plane crash; as a result, one of his legs had to be amputated. Nevertheless, he was able to continue working as a flight instructor. In September 1943, he set a new record of long-term flight times in a single-seater Jacobs-Schweyer Weihe ( registration : D – 4–1841) on the steep coast of Brüsterort, with a flight time of almost 56 hours. According to an article in No. 3 of aviation from March 15, 1944, his record in class D, 1st category (single seaters), was recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). An article in the Spiegel about the record pilot Guy Marchand from September 20, 1950, however, can be read that he was not recognized because of the war, Marchand set the official FAI endurance flight record after a flight of 40 hours and 51 minutes in 1949. Immediately after the Second World War, he used the military airfield in Großostheim for motor and glider flights.

In the following years Jachtmann worked in Berlin , Munich and Oberammergau . But he could no longer build on his earlier successes. Jachtmann's flight instructor license was even revoked and he went bankrupt . Ernst Jachtmann died in 1980.

literature

  • Ernst Jachtmann. Three days and two nights in the air. In: Flug Revue , volumes 1–3, 1949, p. 126 ff.
  • Ursula Eckstein: Ernst Jachtmann. Winch pioneer and world record glider pilot. Justus-Von-Liebig-Verlag, 2011. ISBN 978-3-87390-291-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst Jachtmann. Three days and two nights in the air. In: Flug Revue , volumes 1–3, 1949, p. 126 ff.
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Stenner: Kranich II. MCM Modellbau Club Munich, January 13, 2015.
  3. ↑ Photos and films from 65 years of Ringheim gliding history. Exhibition: The famous world record pilots Ernst Jachtmann and Guy Marchand are in focus on May 21 in the bunker on the Nordring. Main-Echo , May 17, 2017.
  4. ^ Günter Brinkmann, Hans Zacher: Die Evolution der Segelflugzeuge (Die deutsche Luftfahrt Volume 19) , 1992 (2nd edition 1999), p. 88
  5. ↑ a b Flugsport, Volume 36, Issue 1, March 15, 1944
  6. ^ Richard Mihm † . In: aerokurier . No. 2 , 1990, p. 160 .
  7. ↑ Der Adler , born 1939, issue 15, 5th September 1939.
  8. ^ Günter Brinkmann, Hans Zacher: Die Evolution der Segelflugzeuge (Die deutsche Luftfahrt Volume 19) , 1992 (2nd edition 1999), p. 37
  9. ↑ Guy Marchand. Der Spiegel 38/1950, September 20, 1950.
  10. ↑ Ursula Eckstein in: A life for gliding , Darmstädter Echo, October 28, 2017, p. 26
personal data
SURNAME Jachtmann, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH May 2, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1980
Place of death Unterammergau