Gustav Glunz

Gustav Glunz (born January 31, 1910 in Hanover ; † November 26, 1982 ) was a German engineer and ministerial official.

Life

Glunz spent his youth and school days in Hanover and graduated from 1928 to 1933 with a degree in telecommunications and high-frequency technology at the Technical University in Hanover, from which he graduated with a diploma. From 1928 he was a member of the Corps Hannovera there . In 1934 he was accepted into the civil aviation air traffic control service at the Dresden Aviation Authority. In 1937 he joined the Reich Aviation Ministry as a consultant for air traffic control operations . In 1939 he was appointed government building officer.

During the Second World War, Glunz was a civil aviation liaison officer with the Air Force Armaments Staff and head of communications with headquarters in Potsdam, Paris, Semmering, East Prussia and the Ukraine. At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Americans. From 1946 to 1952 he worked for the Günther Wagner company in Hanover as a worker and later as an assistant. In 1952 Glunz became an assistant officer, later a ministerial advisor at the Federal Ministry of Transport in Bonn, where he was responsible for international cooperation in the field of air traffic control . For many years he was chairman of the European planning committee for air traffic control, German representative and chairman of the NATO committee for civil-military cooperation in the field of air traffic control and co-founder of the European air traffic control authority Eurocontrol . He retired on January 31, 1975.

From 1972 to 1980, Glunz was the first chairman of the Weinheim Association of Old Corps Students .

Web links

• Gustav Glunz in the archive portal of the Kösener and Weinheimer Corps
• Gustav Glunz (Association for Corps Student History Research)