Georg Wulf
Georg Wulf (born May 17, 1895 in Bremen , † September 29, 1927 in Bremen) was a German aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer.
biography
Wulf was the son of a customs secretary. He attended the secondary school on Dechanatstrasse .
Around 1910, Henrich Focke, with the support of his brother Wilhelm Focke, built a simple duck plane powered by an eight-hp engine out of steel pipes and bamboo. The attempts to start on the parade ground in Bremen were unsuccessful, but aroused the interest of Wulf, who was five years younger than him.
Wulf was so enthusiastic about flying that he dropped out of school before graduating from high school and instead made airplanes. He offered Focke his collaboration. Wulf and Focke designed airplanes from 1911 and built them with the simplest means. In 1912 they completed an airworthy monoplane that Wulf flew in.
At the beginning of the First World War , Wulf volunteered for the military. After an initial refusal, after he was able to provide evidence of his flights and thus his suitability as a pilot, he joined the air force and was deployed as a pilot in Squadron 23 of Bogohl VII (bomb squadron of the Supreme Army Command ).
After the First World War , no powered aircraft were allowed to be built in Germany; then the group secretly continued building in the basement of what would later become the Focke Museum . Since 1921 he flew the Storch aircraft . In 1923 he also worked as a flight instructor. In 1923 the Bremer Flugzeugbau-Gesellschaft was founded by Focke and Wulf, which from 1924 was called Focke-Wulf-Flugzeugbau AG . Wulf was a member of the board, the technical operations director and a single flyer.
As a preliminary study, they had built a light monoplane that took off on its maiden flight in November 1921. This was followed by the commercial aircraft known under the names Seagull and Duck . On September 29, 1927, Wulf was killed while testing a prototype of the F19a duck .
The aviation pioneer is buried in Bremen in the Osterholz cemetery (field E), near the bridge to the north chapel.
Honors
- Georg-Wulf-Strasse was named after him in 1955 in the Bremen-Neustadt district near Bremen Airport .
- The Georg-Wulf-Straße in Berlin-Schoenefeld bears his name.
swell
- Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .
- Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .
Individual evidence
- ^ Enno Springmann: Focke. Airplanes and helicopters by Henrich Focke 1912–1961. Aviatic, Oberhachin 1997, ISBN 3-925505-36-9 , pp. 19/20
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wulf, Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aviation pioneer and aircraft manufacturer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1895 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1927 |
| Place of death | Bremen |