Gustav Hauck (pilot)

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Gustaf Hauck (born January 18, 1910 in Trieste ; † March 9, 1983 ) was an Austrian police and military pilot.

Life

On April 1, 1930, he joined the police force and was assigned to the Vienna Airport Inspectorate.

On September 3, 1933, on a sightseeing flight from Aspern via Vienna over the inner city of Vienna near the Minoritenkirche , the engine cut out, and the police pilot had to make an emergency landing in the Hansa-Brandenburg CI aircraft at around 12 noon below the Friedensbrücke in the Danube Canal .

After Austria was annexed to Germany , he initially worked in the Reich Aviation Service and was transferred to the Air Force on October 1, 1938 . On May 13, 1940, Captain Hauck was shot down as a squadron commander north of Rotterdam and was then a prisoner of war in Canada until August 1, 1946. From August 2, 1946, he was back in the police force.

Hauck was the team captain of the Austrian team at the 1954 World Gliding Championships in Great Britain. After training as a pilot in Switzerland in August 1954, Hauk switched to the new army on December 15, 1955 as a lieutenant colonel . On 9 December 1955, he launched after 17 years the first Austrian military pilot with a training aircraft of type YAK-18 from the acquired Brumowski Air Base . In the following years he built up the military helicopter flight in Austria , starting with a Bell 47 G (H-13).

On June 30, 1972, he retired as a brigadier and flight inspector. Gustav Hauck died on March 9, 1983.

Awards

literature

  • Hubert Prigl; University of Vienna (Ed.): The history of the Langenlebarn Air Base from 1936 to 2000.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Air Force ( Memento from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ The military aviation exhibition has opened its doors again ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Hauck, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hauck, Gustaf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian police and military pilot
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Trieste
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1983