Georg Schendel

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Georg Wilhelm Gustav Christian Schendel (born August 10, 1885 in Lauenburg in Pomerania , † June 9, 1911 in Adlershof near Berlin ) was a German engineer , aviation pioneer and old eagle .

Life

Schendel was the son of the merchant, purveyor to the court and later city councilor Friedrich Wilhelm Tobias Schendel (1852–?) And his wife Sophia Margarethe (1859–1941), née Bethge, born in Lauenburg in Pomerania.

From 1892 he first attended the boys' school in Gerberstraße, then until Easter 1901 the Progymnasium zu Lauenburg in Pomerania on Neuendorfer Straße and passed his school leaving examination at the Realgymnasium in Kolberg at Easter 1904 .

After finishing school he did his military service in the Navy for a year.

Then he began his shipbuilding studies in Gdansk. He later heard lectures at the University of Göttingen with Professor Ludwig Prandtl and was a guest student at the Technical University of Aachen , where he completed his studies as an aeronautical engineer.

At the beginning of 1911, Schendel trained as a pilot at Dorner Flugzeug GmbH at the Johannisthal airfield and was instructed personally by Hermann Dorner in the control of the monoplane. At the beginning of February he already fulfilled the conditions for the pilot's certificate, which was issued on February 17, 1911 with the number 63 by the German Airship Association. After his training, Schendel worked as a flight instructor at Dorner.

Schendel took part in the "National Flight Week, June 4th to 11th 1911" in Johannisthal. According to the tender, only German pilots who were in possession of a pilot's certificate and who had not yet won a price of 5000 marks or more were allowed to take part in this flight week  . Therefore, this flight week was also referred to as the "beginner flight week". In addition, only aircraft built in Germany were allowed to be flown, while foreign engines were allowed. Schendel was registered with his Dorner T-III monoplane with a 40 HP Körting engine during this flight week.

During the flight week, Schendel made a name for himself as a so-called "storm flier", as he climbed up every day of the event despite sometimes adverse weather and strong gusty winds and was sometimes the only one to do his laps.

On the third day of the flight (June 6th) Schendel attacked the new German altitude record of 1,870 m set by Vollmoeller the previous evening . He circled higher and higher until he ran out of fuel and landed gliding with the engine stopped. After landing, the maximal barograph he was carrying showed an altitude of 2010 m, with which Schendel had broken the previous day's altitude record. At around 8 p.m. on the evening of the third day of flight, Hirth ascended with a passenger and reached a new height record with a passenger at 1580 m .

On the following two days of flight it was stormy with strong gusty winds and apart from Schendel, who climbed for ten minutes on both days, only Oswald Kahnt (1883-1915) flew half a lap on the evening of the fifth day of flight.

Towards the evening of the sixth day of flight (June 9), Schendel initially carried out two passenger flights of five minutes each. When the wind slackened a little around 7:30 p.m. and Kahnt, König , Grulich (1881–1949) and Jablonsky appeared on the square, Schendel prepared for the third ascent with a passenger, this time to attack the world record set by Hirth. Schendel started together with his friend and student, the chief fitter of the Dornerwerke August Karl Voss (born November 22, 1883 in Amberg , † June 9, 1911 in Adlershof), as a passenger and climbed higher and higher in a circling until the machine was barely recognizable was; then began a steep glide. The monoplane swayed at an altitude of about 1000–1200 m, then the front part lowered and the plane went down even steeper. One of the two occupants seemed to lean forward to fix something, then the aircraft disappeared from the observer's field of vision and crashed into the "Laubenkolonie am Kummersee" on Glienicker Weg in Adlershof, around three kilometers east of the airfield. The bodies of the two inmates were found trapped in and under the machine. Schendel's upper body had fallen out, but his legs first had to be pulled out from between the rods. Voss could only be freed by lifting the whole machine. The maximum barograph found in the wreck showed an altitude of 1680 m. With this, Schendel and Voss had broken the world record set by Hirth three days earlier with one passenger .

The relatively little damaged wreck was badly damaged by the recovery of the corpses and by onlookers who tore themselves “souvenirs” from the aircraft. During the night, the wreck was cut into pieces with axes and saws and transported away. The severe destruction of the aircraft wreck made it much more difficult to determine the cause of the accident, and one was mainly dependent on testimony. In the end, the cause could not be determined beyond doubt. The most likely causes of the accident were named:

  • Failure of the height control due to wire breakage or the like. This possible cause was disputed by the Dorner Flugzeug Gesellschaft due to the existence of double separate control cables and therefore the need for double wire breaks.
  • physical failure or control errors of the pilot,
  • strong "air eddies" (turbulence) due to the gusty wind.

Schendel received prize money of 2,378.72 marks for the third highest total flight time of 214 minutes on all flight days, as well as the additional price of 1,000 marks for the second longest total flight time with passengers (146 minutes) and the additional price of 2,000 marks for the highest altitude (2010 m) awarded posthumously. The prize money was paid to his parents.

Georg Schendel was buried on June 14, 1911 in the Protestant churchyard in Lauenburg in Pomerania.

Publications

In 1910 and 1911 Schendel published articles in the magazine for flight technology and motorized airship travel about rotary engines and especially about the Bucherer engine by the engineer Max Bucherer from Cologne-Lindental.

  • Rotary engines . In: Ansbert Vorreiter (Hrsg.): Journal for flight technology and motorized airship travel . Issues No. 19 , 21, 23. R. Oldenbourg, 1910, ZDB -ID 243597-4 , p. 250-252, 273-276, 300-302 .
  • Rotary engines . In: Ansbert Vorreiter (Hrsg.): Journal for flight technology and motorized airship travel . Issues No. 1 , 2. R. Oldenbourg, 1911, ZDB -ID 243597-4 , p. 5-9, 23-24 .
  • Rotary engines. The Bucherer engine . In: Ansbert Vorreiter (Hrsg.): Journal for flight technology and motorized airship travel . Issues No. 5 , 6, 7. R. Oldenbourg, 1911, ZDB -ID 243597-4 , p. 64-66, 76-77, 86-88 .

Appreciation

Georg-Schendel-Strasse in Berlin on the area of ​​the former Johannisthal airfield in the Treptow-Köpenick district has been named after Georg Schendel since September 11, 2002 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Certificate No. 154, birth register, main register, registry office Lauenburg in Pomerania, 1885–1887. (JPG) In: Materiały zdigitalizowane / Digitized materials. Archiwum Państwowe w Koszalinie / State Archives in Koszalin, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c Certificate No. 67, death register, registry office Adlershof, Teltow district, 1911, Volume 1, No. 1 to 153 in the Berlin State Archives; Berlin, Germany; Civil status register Death register
  3. ^ Directory of names in the register of deaths 1905–1928, registry office Adlershof, inventory: P Rep. 641, serial no. 116. (PDF; 284 MB) In: registry office query. Landesarchiv Berlin, p. 208 , accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  4. ↑ List of pilots 1909–1914 with a German aircraft license (PDF; 71 kB), accessed on May 12, 2013
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Alexander Kauther: "Get me the Brummer ready!"; From the life of the pilot Georg Schendel (1885–1911) and his friend and student, chief fitter August Voß (1881–1911) (=  series of documentation about the Berlin-Johannisthal airfield 1909–1914 . No. 6 ). GRIN, without location information 2011, ISBN 978-3-656-06036-9 ( reading sample [accessed on August 29, 2019] The year of birth given in the subtitle for Voss is incorrect.).
  6. ↑ Director Sommerfeldt: Twenty-sixth annual report of the Progymnasium zu Lauenburg in Pomerania, school year 1901. List of candidates who received the certificate of maturity for Obersekunda at Easter 1901. In: Digital Collections. University and State Library Düsseldorf, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Director Dr. Johannes Becker: Royal. Domgymnasium and Königl. Realgymnasium zu Kolberg 1904; School news from 1903–1904. Graduation examinations at the Realgymnasium Easter 1904. In: Digital Collections. Universitäts and Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf, accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  8. ^ Local group Kiel of the Association for Motorized Airships in the Nordmark (ed.): Nationales Wettfliegen Kiel 1911 . Program booklet. L. Handorff, Graphische Kunstanstalt, Kiel 1911, biographies of the aviators, p. 32 (Schendel was registered as a participant in the German round flight 1911 with the start number 10 and as a participant in the Kiel Flight Week 1911, in which he no longer took part due to his crash.): “Georg Schendel, Dorner pilot and flight instructor at the Dorner aircraft works, is from Dorner himself had been instructed in the control of his monoplane. Lately he has achieved very good flight performance on the Johannisthaler Flugfeld. "
  9. ^ Johannisthal statistics . In: Deutscher Luftschiffer-Verband (Hrsg.): German magazine for airship travel . No. 3 . Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Druckerei, Berlin February 8, 1911, DNB  011265957 , miscellaneous, p. 32 .
  10. ↑ pilot certificates . In: Deutscher Luftschiffer-Verband (Hrsg.): German magazine for airship travel . No. 4 . Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Dr., Berlin February 22, 1911, DNB  011265957 , official notices of the German Airship Association, p. 1 .
  11. ↑ a b This year's national flight week Berlin-Johannisthal . In: Oskar Ursinus (Ed.): Flugsport . No. 11 . Verlag für Flugsport, Frankfurt a. M. May 17, 1911, DNB  011239654 , flight competitions., P. 380 .
  12. ↑ a b The National Flight Week Johannisthal . In: Oskar Ursinus (Ed.): Flugsport . No. 13 . Verlag für Flugsport, Frankfurt a. M. June 14, 1911, DNB  011239654 , Flugtechnische Rundschau, Inland., P. 462-464 .
  13. ↑ a b c Johannisthal. In: German magazine for aviation; Illustrated aeronautical communications. No. 12 . Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Dr., Berlin June 14, 1911, DNB  011265957 , German Flight Month 1911., p. 8 .
  14. ↑ Certificate No. 68, death register, registry office Adlershof, Teltow district, 1911, Volume 1, No. 1 to 153 in the Berlin State Archives; Berlin, Germany; Civil status register Death register
  15. ^ Directory of names in the register of deaths 1905–1928, registry office Adlershof, inventory: P Rep. 641, serial no. 116. (PDF; 284 MB) In: registry office query. Landesarchiv Berlin, p. 237 , accessed on August 29, 2019 .
  16. ↑ F. Bendemann: Report on the causes of the fall of Schendel and Voss on June 9, 1911 in Johannisthal. In: German magazine for aviation; Illustrated aeronautical communications. No. 13 . Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Dr., Berlin June 28, 1911, DNB  011265957 , p. 18-20 .
  17. ^ Dorner Flugzeug-Gesellschaft: Correction. In: Oskar Ursinus (Ed.): Flugsport . No. 14 . Verlag für Flugsport, Frankfurt a. M. June 28, 1911, DNB  011239654 , letters to the editors, p. 511 .
  18. ^ Results of the Johannisthal National Flight Week. In: German magazine for aviation; Illustrated aeronautical communications. No. 13 . Braunbeck & Gutenberg-Dr., Berlin June 28, 1911, DNB  011265957 , p. 22 .
  19. ^ Georg-Schendel-Strasse in Berlin. In: Kaupert's street guide through Berlin. kaupert media, accessed on August 29, 2019 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The death certificate indicates an incorrect age of 24 years. On the left side of the document is a note in the margin written in pencil “10./8. 1885 ”, which gives the correct date of birth. Schendel was 25 years and 10 months old at the time of his death.
  2. ↑ "Aachen, Monheimsallee 37" is given as the residential address in his pilot's certificate.
  3. ↑ This altitude record was exceeded by Hirth on June 20, 1911 at the Kieler Flugwoche with 2200 m.
  4. ↑ On the fifth day of the flight (June 8th), a misfire in a cylinder of his engine forced him to land at a height of 150 m.
  5. ↑ The area of ​​the Laubenkolonie am Kummersee was located in an area that ran through Handjerystraße in the southwest, Büchnerweg (then Auguste-Viktoria-Straße) in the northwest to Zinsgutstraße (then Kaiser-Friedrich-Straße), then further a little to the south curved arch to about the railway bridge of the Berlin outer ring over the Glienicker Straße (near the Pestalozzistraße) and bordered by the Glienicker Straße in the southeast. The Kummersee (actually "Lake Como"), which no longer exists today, was roughly here . The area of ​​the arbor colony was built on in the early 1920s. A small remnant of the former site still exists in the southeast corner of the "Lange Gurke" allotment garden.
personal data
SURNAME Schendel, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schendel, Georg Wilhelm Gustav Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Lauenburg in Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1911
Place of death Adlershof near Berlin