Essen aviation archive

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The Essen Aviation Archive was founded in 1999 by Frank Radzicki.

Emergence

The archive emerged from the "Essen Aviation History Collection", which Radzicki has been running since 1994 together with a companion who is also involved in aviation history, Guido Rißmann-Ottow. This was preceded by a common interest in aviation history from their youth, which was expressed in the collection of photos, drawings and the construction of scale aircraft models (plastic model making). The collection at that time was made public in 1997 at photo exhibitions in the context of public events at the Essen / Mülheim airfield . At that time, historical recordings of Essen / Mülheim Airport and the history of aviation in the region around the city of Essen were presented to the public. In September 1999 there was a separation because of different views on the historical work and organization of the "Essen Aviation History Collection". Frank Radzicki founded the "Essen Aviation Archive". Guido Rißmann-Ottow continued the collection and in 2004 he renamed it “Archive for the History of Aviation in the Ruhr Area”. Already in 2002 Rißmann-Ottow published his own, extensively researched book about early aviation in the Ruhr area against the background of bourgeois social history , which was based on a dissertation he had written with the title Citizenship and Aviation in Essen , completed and submitted in 2001, was based on this topic under the scientific supervision of Wilfried Loth from the University of Essen , i.e. not a book of aviation history in the true sense, but rather to be classified in the social sciences department . This book does not contain any photographs from the early days of aviation in the Ruhr area, but does contain drawings, maps, display diagrams and sketches.

The "Essen Aviation Archive", on the other hand, has the purpose of summarizing all historical aviation data and facts relating to the area of ​​the city of Essen and the surrounding area. One focus is on the collection and publication of historical photographs, so that the "Essen Aviation Archive" can also be viewed as a journalistic archive. Historical events, insofar as they relate to regional aviation history, are documented factually and objectively and, if necessary, also published, i.e. free from any political influence or statement. A publication by the “Essen Aviation Archive” is an illustrated book about Essen / Mülheim Airport with numerous historical photos that was published in March 2005 on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the airport. Another volume with historical photos on the early aviation history in the Ruhr area was published in June 2006. The focus is on the beginnings of aviation in the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area (Ruhr area) from 1906 to the 1930s. Like the archive on the history of aviation in the Ruhr area, the Essen Aviation Archive is part of the Essen History Initiatives Working Group founded in 1991 . The majority of the stock of photos, specialist literature as well as other documents and documents come from the estate of the local historian Hugo Rieth (1922–2006).

Stocks

  • Collection of photos from the historic balloon flight in Essen to the present day
  • Photo collection on historical airship travel in Essen and in the Ruhr area
  • Photo collection for the first flight attempts ( gliding ) in Essen
  • Photo collection for the first flying machine in Essen as well as simultaneous projects
  • Photo collection on the Essen- Gelsenkirchen- Rotthausen airfield from 1912 to 1930
  • Collection of photos from the Kondor aircraft factory at the Essen-Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen airfield (1912–1920)
  • Photo collection on the Wanne-Herten airfield from 1912 to 1916
  • Single photos of the Oberhausen - Holten airfield (1909)
  • Single photos of the Duisburg- Neuenkamp airfield
  • Individual photos of the Duisburg water airport (1927)
  • Individual photos of Krefeld Airport
  • Individual photos of Dortmund - Brackel Airport and Fredenbaum
  • Single photos of the Gelsenkirchen-Buer airfield (Berger Feld)
  • Individual photos of Düsseldorf Airport
  • Photo collection from Essen / Mülheim airport
  • Collection of photos from the Essen / Mülheim labor education camp (including foreign workers during expansion work)
  • Photo collection for the company WDL (West German aerial advertising)
  • Photo collection on motorized aviation in the Ruhr area (focus on Essen)
  • Photo collection on gliding in the Ruhr area (focus: the years 1930 to 1975)
  • Existing Hermann Havertz (helicopter designer)
  • Existing glider expedition to Iceland in 1938
  • Files on Essen / Mülheim Airport from 1934 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1955 (original files / correspondence / balance sheets)
  • Files with press reports, memoranda, contemporary publications and documents on Essen / Mülheim Airport
  • Files relating to the activities of the Essen / Mülheim Airport and Ecology Working Group . V.
  • File inventory on airports in the vicinity of Essen, including brochures, etc.
  • Texts, official and unpublished manuscripts on the history of the aviation associations in the Ruhr area
  • Festschriften for events at the Essen-Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen airfield
  • Festschriften for events at Essen / Mülheim Airport
  • Anniversaries of the aviation associations from Essen, Mülheim / Ruhr, Velbert and Düsseldorf
  • Information brochures on aviation development in North Rhine-Westphalia from 1955 to 1975 (airport planning)
  • Article from the daily press
  • Articles from the trade press

Under-stock German aviation

  • Files on aircraft used in Germany, civil and military (including type files)
  • Specialist literature / aviation library on German aviation from all eras (contemporary and current publications)
  • Specialist literature on international aviation (also antiquarian titles)
  • Photo collection of aircraft used in Germany (stock picture archive of Deutsche Lufthansa; Interflug and Deutsche Lufthansa of the GDR; picture archive Pawlas; Military History Museum Dresden; private collections and own picture holdings of the Essen aviation archive)

Publications of the Essen Aviation Archive

  • Frank Radzicki: 80 years of Essen / Mülheim Airport. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-809-3
  • Frank Radzicki: The dream of flying in the Ruhr area. Sutton-Verlag Erfurt 2006, ISBN 3-89702-995-2
  • Article in the Fliegerblatt (formerly Jägerblatt): 90 years ago - plane crash near Heisingen / Ruhr and an aviator memorial yesterday and today , issue 2/2008, Cologne ( ISSN  0021-3896 )
  • Publications in the information of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Essener Geschichtsinitiativen , place of publication Essen, can also be viewed at www.ag-essener-geschichtsinitiativen.de

Earlier publications by Frank Radzicki

In the early 1990s, Frank Radzicki published several articles in aviation and model making magazines .

  • Camouflage colors of the former GDR air force

(Airplane magazine, Illertissen, issue 3/1991)

(Airplane magazine, Illertissen issue 1/1992)

  • Almost forgotten - Lufthansa model kits

(Modellbau heute magazine, Berlin, issue 3/1992)

  • Lufthansa models - DLH kits at a glance

(Modellbau heute magazine, Berlin, issue 6/1993)

Publications of the archive for the history of aviation in the Ruhr area / formerly the Essen aviation history collection

Author: Guido Rißmann-Ottow

  • The end of a hot season

(Employee magazine of Stadtwerke Essen, issue 4/1995)

  • From Sturzacker to World Airport. Essen Aviation Planning 1909–1925 (exhibition catalog - Visions for the Ruhr area), Verlag Peter Pomp, Bottrop 2000
  • Warplanes and pilots for the fatherland. The Kondor-Flugzeugwerke GmbH

(Industrie-Kultur magazine, Essen, issue 4/2000)

  • Luck off! - Early aviation in the area , Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2002, ISBN 3-89861-025-X
  • Luck off! - Early aviation in the Revier , own print and publisher, Essen 2005

(Exhibition documentation / planning and implementation of the exhibition in the Blücherturm, Essen-Rellinghausen from June 19 to August 22, 2004)

Other publications on Essen aviation history

  • German Airports magazine: Essen / Mülheim in air traffic , Berlin 1934
  • Albert Heinz: Origin and importance of Essen / Mülheim airport , in Essen's home calendar 1939
  • Albert Meurer: The Ruhr area in air traffic , in: The hometown of Essen , 1956
  • Norbert Brugger: Ballonfahrt in Essen , in: Die Heimatstadt Essen , 1962/63
  • Hugo Rieth: As far as the wind carries us , in: Die Heimatstadt Essen , 1973
  • Hugo Rieth: The Kondor Flugzeugwerke 1912–1918 , in: Die Heimatstadt Essen , 1975
  • Hugo Rieth: A balloon ascent in Essen in 1874 , in: Die Heimatstadt Essen , 1977
  • Hugo Rieth: 1909 - Zeppelin enthusiasm in Essen , in: Die Heimatstadt Essen , 1979
  • Hugo Rieth: The wind determines the direction , in: Essen Yearbook , 1988
  • Walter Rieken: The airport opened 75 years ago on the outskirts of Essen , in: Essen Yearbook , 1988
  • Karlheinz Rabas: Flugplatz Rotthausen , in: And this is our story - Gelsenkirchener Lesebuch , Oberhausen 1984 (5th edition: 1995 ISBN 3-921541-29-8 )
  • Ernst August Schröder: 70 years of aviation in Essen , in: Das Münster am Hellweg , issue 1, Essen 1973
  • Ernst August Schröder: From the labor pains in the hour of birth of air traffic , in: Contributions to the history of the city and monastery of Essen , Volume 104, Essen 1992
  • Winfried and Walter Suwelack: Josef Suwelack and the dream of flying , Warendorf 1988 ( ISBN 3-927368-00-8 ) / Extended new edition by Rainer A. Krewerth (Ed.) Under the title Ein Westphalian Fliegerleben , Münster 2001 ( ISBN 3- 402-05816-2 )
  • Rolf Schneider: Airmail Essen , Essen 1990 (2nd extended edition, EA 1980)
  • Luftfahrtverein Essen (ed.): Festschrift 90 Years of Aviation in Essen , Essen 1992
  • Luftfahrtverein Essen (ed.): Festschrift 100 years of balloon flight in Essen , Essen 2002
  • Raimund Dreker: balloon driver experiences , Essen 2004
  • Reiner Eismann: 80 years of Essen / Mülheim Airport , in: Mülheim an der Ruhr yearbook , Mülheim an der Ruhr 2005
  • Jürgen Lohbeck: Silk Sender Segelflug , Velbert 2014 ( ISBN 978-3-9816362-1-5 )

The Essen Bibliography , which is revised and updated annually, provides information on further publications on Essen aviation .

Web links

Working group of Essen history initiatives