Friedrich Möhlmann

Friedrich Möhlmann (born December 2, 1904 in Thedinghausen , † April 9, 1977 in Braunschweig ) was a German aerospace engineer . From 1955 to 1969 he was the first director of the Federal Aviation Office in Braunschweig.

life and work

The son of the auctioneer Friedrich Möhlmann (1879–1932) and the farmer's daughter Marie, b. Schröder (1883-1970) graduated from the humanistic grammar school in Bremen in 1923 with the Abitur. This was followed by studying mechanical engineering and aeronautical engineering at the technical universities of Hanover and Berlin-Charlottenburg . In Berlin, where Möhlmann graduated in 1929 with the degree of Dipl.-Ing. finished, Georg Hans Madelung was one of his academic teachers. When he was a student, Möhlmann was a member of the Academic Aviation Group ( Akaflieg ) and received flight training at the German Aviation School ( DVS) in Stettin , Berlin-Staaken and Schleissheim. He acquired the B1 and the aerobatic license. Möhlmann worked as an engineer at AEG before he took up the position of technical advisor at the testing center of the Reich Association of the German Aviation Industry in Berlin-Staaken in 1933 . Among other things, he dealt with questions of automatic aircraft control. From 1935 he worked in the technical office of the Reich Aviation Ministry . There, the safety equipment of aircraft was part of his area of ​​responsibility. In 1937 he became a member of the Air Force's engineering corps .

Director of the Federal Aviation Office

After the end of the Second World War , Möhlmann first founded a medium-sized metalworking company.

On September 15, 1953, the Provisional Federal Agency for Aviation Equipment and Aircraft Accident Investigation (VBL) was established with its seat in Bonn . Her responsibilities included the management of the aircraft accident service and the search and rescue service as well as the processing of new technical regulations for the construction and testing of aviation equipment. Möhlmann was appointed head of the VBL in 1954 by the responsible Federal Minister for Transport, Hans-Christoph Seebohm . With the law on the Federal Aviation Office of November 30, 1954, the VBL was replaced by the Federal Aviation Office (LBA) as the higher federal authority for civil aviation. Minister Seebohm, President of the Braunschweig Chamber of Commerce and Industry since 1947 and honorary citizen of the city since January 25, 1954, appointed Braunschweig as the seat of the new authority on December 14, 1954, of which Möhlmann was appointed as its first head. The LBA began its service on February 1, 1955 with 28 employees in the rooms of the main building of Braunschweig-Waggum Airport . On May 5, 1955, the Federal Republic of Germany regained air sovereignty , with the task of updating the licensing and testing system for civil aviation and of replacing the provisions from 1936 with new regulations. Möhlmann played a decisive role here.

Möhlmann retired on December 31, 1969. On January 16, 1970 Paul Ossenbühn was his successor (until 1971) as director of the LBA.

literature

• Wolfgang Danschacher:  Möhlmann, Friedrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 620 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Friedrich Karl Franzmeyer, Karl Kössler and Peter Korrell: The Federal Aviation Office in Braunschweig . In: Braunschweigische Luftfahrtgeschichte , Braunschweig 2010, ISBN 978-3-941737-18-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedrich Möhlmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• The English truth just looks different Spiegel interview with Friedrich Möhlmann on June 16, 1969 (with photo)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FK Franz Meyer: Chronicle of the Federal Aviation Authority. (PDF; 3.38 MiB) Luftfahrt-Bundesamt , October 30, 2004, p. 7 , accessed on January 29, 2017 .