Fedir Anders

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Fedir Anders

Fedir Ferdynandowytsch Anders ( Ukrainian Федір Фердинандович Андерс , Russian Фёдор Фердинандович Андерс / Fyodor Ferdinando Petrovich Anders born May 21, jul. / 2. June  1868 greg. In Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire , † 31 May 1926 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR ) was a Ukrainian engineer and builder of the first Ukrainian airship .

Life

Fedir Anders was of German descent. He was born the son of a worker at the arsenal factory in Kiev and went to secondary school there. He later attended the State Surveying School and in 1918 he graduated from the Kiev Polytechnic Institute from which he completed parallel to his engineering activities. Already during his studies he became interested in aviation and wrote the widely acclaimed brochure “How can you build an airplane yourself?” . However, his main interest was in airship travel. In the years 1909 to 1911 he first built a model of an impact airship to advertise an airship .

Ukrainian postage stamp from 2011: "100 years of the first flight of the Kiev airship"

On October 9, 1911, Anders undertook the first public flight of a civilian airship in Kiev on the airship he had designed himself.

The impact airship called "Kiev", which he financed himself and, apart from the balloon envelope, built completely by his own hand, had a volume of 850 m³, a length of 40 m, a diameter of 7 m and a weight of about 524 kg. It could carry two mechanics and three other passengers. The ship had electric lights and a 25 hp engine with which the ship could reach a speed of 35 km / h. On August 6, 1912, he took part in a maneuver in the Kiev military district. Although the airship was manned by him, his son and a mechanic and carried reserve fuel and 60 kg of ballast, it rose quickly to an altitude of 1000 meters. However, due to a headwind, the engine failed and he drifted 120 km from Kiev and was finally able to make an emergency landing at Chernihiv . In the winter of 1911/12 he improved the airship. With this modernized model he made over 150 flights and carried a total of 200 passengers.

On August 12, 1912, Anders made a flight from Kiev to Oster for the reopening of the sports stadium in Kiev-Lukjaniwka (ukr .: Лукянівка ; now part of the Kiev district of Shevchenko ) . The following day the engine caught fire and the airship burned completely, fortunately no personal injury was caused. After this accident he began to design another airship, the "Kiev 2", which he presented to the Kiev Aerospace Society on October 22, 1912. The draft envisaged an airship for 12 passengers, which should operate between Kiev and Moscow. With a boat-shaped gondola, the airship should be able to enter the water and continue as a ship. However, due to the lack of financial resources, this draft did not get beyond the planning phase.

At the end of 1912 he went to the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH from Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin in Germany for further training as an airship builder . When he returned to Kiev, he began building scaffolding for a rigid airship . With his experiences at Zeppelin and written questions to Konstantin Eduardowitsch Ziolkowski , he found a technical solution to get by with little hydrogen, but was unable to implement it because of the outbreak of the First World War . In 1921 he was commissioned by the Soviet government to design an airship for passenger transport with a capacity of 100 passengers. In the spring of 1924 the draft of a rigid airship with changeable volume was ready. This design met with great interest from the experts and it was decided to build a 5000 m³ airship based on this design. After he had simplified the design a little, he founded the company " Akopeda " (Ukrainian: Акопеда ) to build and operate the airship, but this did not materialize due to his death in May 1926.

Anders grave in the Baikowe cemetery

Fedir Anders died two days before his 58th birthday in Kiev and was buried there in the Baikowe cemetery .

He was a member of the Kiev Aviation Society, which existed from 1909 to 1917, and from 1923 a member of the Aviation-Scientific-Technical Society at the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.

Commemoration

In the Kiev district of Чоколівка / Chokolivka there was a street in the second half of the 20th century and a bus stop is still named after him today.

On October 30, 1970, a memorial plaque was put up in his memory at house number 50 on Bohdan Khmelnyzkyj Street in Kiev , which he lived in between 1913 and 1926 . The inscription on the plaque reads: Erioll world.svg

"
Domestic aviation pioneer,
designer and engineer
Fedir Ferdynandowytsch
Anders (1868-1926) lived in this house from 1913–1926 "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Germans in the History of Kiev - Fedir Anders on the website of the Center for German Culture "Wiederstrahl" ; accessed on August 28, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ a b c d e Entry on Fedir Anders in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on April 29, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Myths and Truths about the airship designer FF Anders by Tetjana Nikitjuk; Page 4, right column; accessed on April 29, 2017 (Russian)
  4. ↑ Biography Fedir Anders on Ukrainians-World ; accessed on April 29, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ a b Biography Fedir Anders on the KPI website ; accessed on April 29, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  6. ↑ Biography Fedir Anders on UA-History ; accessed on April 29, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  7. ↑ Celebrity graves - Fedir Anders on m-necropol.ru; accessed on April 30, 2017 (Russian)
  8. ↑ Biography Fedir Anders on 1576.ua ; accessed on April 29, 2017 (Ukrainian)
  9. ↑ Disappeared streets, alleys and squares ( memento of the original from August 20, 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. on the Unofficial Website of the City of Kiev ; accessed on April 30, 2017 (Ukrainian) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / kievjournal.com
  10. ↑ Kiev: Tours through the metropolis on the Dnepr by Günther Schäfer, page 154; Retrieved April 29, 2017
  11. ↑ Fedir Anders memorial plaque on kiev-foto.info ; accessed on April 29, 2017 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Different, Fedir
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anders, Fedir Ferdynandowytsch (full name); Андерс, Федір Фердинандович (ukS-Cyrl); Андерс, Фёдор Фердинандович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian engineer and builder of the first Ukrainian airship
DATE OF BIRTH June 2, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Kiev Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 1926
Place of death Kiev, Ukrainian SSR