Friedrich Hermann Wölfert

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Hermann Wölfert

Hermann Wölfert (born November 17, 1850 in Riethnordhausen , Sangerhausen district , † June 12, 1897 in Tempelhof near Berlin ) was a German publisher and pioneer of airship travel.

Life

"Ascent of the steerable Wölfert airship in Berlin";
Colored wood engraving by Wilhelm Geissler in the magazine Über Land und Meer , second half of 1883

Wölfert studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig from 1870 . In 1871 he became active at Plavia . To the Dr. phil. after receiving his doctorate, he founded a publishing bookstore in Leipzig in 1874 . He published over 50 book titles and magazines, some of them himself. In the same year he married Christiane Trautmann, with whom he had two daughters. When he met Georg Baumgarten in 1879 and began to get enthusiastic about airship travel, he helped Baumgarten financially and personally in the further development of the airships . Instead he neglected his publishing bookstore, which was bought by another publisher in 1881. After Baumgarten's death (1884), he continued his work and built seven airships. In 1887 he met Gottlieb Daimler . Driven by a petrol engine developed by him, the so-called "grandfather clock", Wölfert's airship covered the 10 kilometers from Cannstatt to Aldingen (Remseck) on August 10, 1888 , the three Emperor's year . On May 20, 1896, he set the first altitude record for airships at 1940 meters. Wölfert died in the crash of his new airship Deutschland on June 12, 1897 on Tempelhofer Feld near Berlin. Not far from the site of the accident, Wölfertstrasse has been named after him since August 4, 1930.

literature

  • Horst Teichmann and Günter O. Schulz: A dream comes true - Georg Baumgarten and Dr. Wolfert. The most important German airship pioneers of the 19th century . Publishing bookstore in the Buchzentrum Empfingen 2007. ISBN 978-3-86755-206-6
  • Peter Kleinheins: Motorized aviation began a hundred years ago . Pestalozzi Children's Village Wahlwies, 1988, ISBN 978-3-921583-04-3 .

Web links

Airship "Germany"

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 95/1
  2. ^ Robert Paschke : The Corps Plavia in Leipzig 1877/78 . Once and Now, yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, special issue 1960, pp. 41–47
  3. ↑ Berlin street directory , accessed on September 23, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Wölfert, Friedrich Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wölfert, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German publisher and aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Riethnordhausen , Sangerhausen district
DATE OF DEATH June 12, 1897
Place of death Tempelhof near Berlin