Friedrich Siebel
Friedrich Wilhelm Siebel (born March 2, 1891 in Broich , today Mülheim an der Ruhr , † April 24, 1954 in Duisdorf , today Bonn ) was a German pilot and aircraft manufacturer.
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Friedrich ("Fritz") Wilhelm Siebel was the son of the businessman Fritz Siebel and his wife Gertraud geb. Wilke. After graduating from high school , he attended the mechanical engineering school in Dortmund. In 1912 the first self-designed airplane was created after he had already built an automobile . He worked as head of the physical department of the DVL in Berlin-Adlershof , founded his first company in 1919 and in 1927 became a partner in the newly established Leichtflugzeugbau Klemm GmbH . In 1929 he took part in the European sightseeing flight for Klemm on a Klemm L 25 Ia and took 7th place in the technical competition.
In 1937, at the instigation of the Reich Aviation Ministry , Siebel took over the Halle aircraft factory , which was founded in 1934 as a branch of Leichtflugzeugbau Klemm . During the war, Siebel Flugzeugwerke built military aircraft. As a designer, Friedrich Siebel made a name for himself with the " Siebelfähre " (1940) named after him and with the high-speed DFS 346 aircraft . After the end of the war (1946), the Siebel Flugzeugwerke was dismantled and taken to the Soviet Union by order of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) .
Siebel decided to start a new professional life and in 1948, together with a business partner, founded a company in Munich to manufacture and sell foreign sport and commercial aircraft under license - Siebel Flugzeugwerke ATG (Allgemeine Transportanlagen-Gesellschaft; SIAT).
literature
- Hans Joachim Ebert: Siebel, Friedrich Wilhelm. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 319-321 ( digitized version ).
- Fritz Siebel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1953, pp. 29 ( Online - June 24, 1953 ).
- Fritz Siebel , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 25/1954 from June 14, 1954, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
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- City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1194/5/14
Individual evidence
- ^ Helmut Trunz: Pioneering achievements of the German aviation industry until 1945 . 1st edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-613-02669-8 , pp. 158 f .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Siebel, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Siebel, Friedrich Wilhelm (full name); Siebel, Fritz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pilot and aircraft manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 2, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Broich |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 24, 1954 |
| Place of death | Duisdorf |