Ferdinand Gluud

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Captain Hans Peter Ferdinand Gluud

Hans Peter Ferdinand Gluud (born October 22, 1875 in Bremen , † October 17, 1913 in Berlin-Johannisthal ) was a German captain and airship commander of LZ 18 .

biography

LZ 18 - crash in 1913

Gluud was the son of a master carpenter of the same name from Bremen. He attended secondary school until 1891. He then completed an apprenticeship as a seaman and navigator. From 1899 he was 4th then chief officer and then captain at North German Lloyd . He was captain of the sailing school ship Herzogin Sophie Charlotte .

After Gluud took part in the Zeppelin study expedition to Spitzbergen in 1910 as first officer of the steamer Mainz , Ferdinand von Zeppelin hired him as an excellent nautical and meteorological navigator. He transferred the entire operation of his airships in Friedrichshafen to him . Zeppelin and Gluud soon enjoyed a close relationship of trust and the Zeppelin airship fleet was expanded. As leader of the airships, he was also able to run over his hometown of Bremen.

The Zeppelin LZ 18 was a rigid airship and, under the designation "L 2", the second naval airship of the Imperial Navy , which was to be put into operation before the First World War . In October 1913, "L 2" was easily transferred from Friedrichshafen to Johannisthal. On the day it was handed over to the Navy, October 17, 1913, the airship exploded due to a faulty construction at a height of 200 meters and burned out completely. The cause of the accident is assumed that the hydrogen carrier gas diffusing from the gas cells has collected in the passage. Since it could not escape upwards, it was sucked into one of the machine gondolas by the negative pressure that resulted from the travel movement, where it ignited. All crew members were killed.

Gluud was married and had a daughter.

Honors

  • A headland in Kongsfjord Spitsbergen is named after him Gluudneset.
  • The Gluudstrasse in Bremen- Hemelingen , district Sebaldsbrück , was named after him.
  • At Bremen Airport, on the right by the pond in front of the entrance, there is a memorial stone and a plaque: "Two Bremen aviation pioneers: F. Gluud: .... / H. Gluud: ....."

literature

  • Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gluudneset . In: The Place Names of Svalbard (first edition 1942). Norsk Polarinstitutt , Oslo 2001, ISBN 82-90307-82-9 (English, Norwegian).

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personal data
SURNAME Gluud, Ferdinand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gluud, Hans Peter Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German captain and airship commander
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1913
Place of death Berlin-Johannisthal