Eugen Wiencziers

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Wiencziers in an Antoinette VII, 1910
Eugen Wiencziers (1910)

Eugen Hubert Walter Wiencziers (born March 20, 1880 in Golkowitz , Rybnik district , province of Silesia , † October 30, 1917 near Speyer ) was a German engineer , aviation pioneer and an old eagle .

life and work

Eugen Wiencziers spent his youth in Silesia, where he learned the craft of engine construction. In early 1905 Wiencziers was also known as a successful motorcycle racer.

In 1909 he moved to Mourmelon in France and studied aircraft technology there. In 1910 he passed the German pilot examination in Strasbourg . By the end of 1910, the first 46 pilot certificates recognized by the FAI had been issued in Germany. Eugen Wiencziers received the number 8. Immediately after his examination, he became very well known by flying over the Strasbourg cathedral and the city of Strasbourg with an Antoinette monoplane . The machine was made available to Wiencziers by the well-known automobile dealer and vehicle manufacturer E. Mathis . This was the first German city overflight and the third worldwide. In the same year he took part in the St. Petersburg Flight Week and was honored by Tsar Alexander I for his aerobatic performance.

After that he was a participant in numerous other flight weeks and aviation shows such as in Budapest and Berlin. He also demonstrated his flying skills to numerous famous people. For Napoleon Bonaparte , King of Italy , for example, he flew around the Milan Cathedral . Back in Germany, Wiencziers set an altitude record of 1560 m during the third Berlin flight week in 1910. In September 1910 he crossed the Alps with his 60 hp Antoinette and landed in Milan. In 1911 he took part in the Germany flight .

During the First World War , Wiencziers was a test pilot at the Pfalz-Flugzeugwerke in Speyer. During a test flight on October 30, 1917, he lost control of the aircraft due to the bad weather conditions on the approach to the works airfield near Speyer and had a fatal accident on landing.

Trivia

From November 8, 2009 to April 25, 2010, numerous documents by Eugen Hubert Wiencziers were shown in the exhibition "Eagles over Silesia - Events and Pioneers in Aviation History" at the Upper Silesian State Museum (OSLM) in Ratingen on around 600 m².

literature

  • Aviation history. Chronica series, racing deck by Eugen Wiencziers. Pawlas, Nuremberg 1970

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ F. Rasch (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Aviation Association 1913 . Berlin 1913, DNB  012953865 , 8th guide list, c) flight guide, p. 132 .
  2. ↑ Death register StA Speyer, No. 438/1917
  3. ↑ Magazine for motorcycle and automobile sport. Published by Deutsche Motorrad Vereinigung eV
  4. ↑ Der Motorfahrer No. 44 of October 30, 1908 - page 1022
  5. ↑ Oldtimer-Lexikon Automobiles MATHIS Strasbourg ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.carsablanca.de
  6. ↑ Champagne: Berceau de l'aviation du Monde (French)
  7. ↑ Flugtechnische Rundschau German altitude record 1910
  8. ↑ La Travesía de los Alpes 1910
  9. ^ Willi Hackenberger : The old eagles. Pioneers in German aviation . Munich 1960, p. 68f.
  10. ↑ Records in the Oberschlesisches Landesmuseum, Ratingen, North Rhine-Westphalia
  11. ^ Project description of the exhibition "Eagle over Silesia" (PDF; 28 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Wiencziers, Eugen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wiencziers, Eugen Hubert Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviation pioneer, test pilot
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Golkowitz
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1917
Place of death near Speyer , Germany