Gustav Schulze (pilot)

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Ernst August Gustav Schulze (born February 17, 1891 in Burg near Magdeburg ; † January 20, 1932 there ) was a German aviation pioneer.

Gustav Schulze around 1913

Life

Together with Walter Rieseler , who was also born in Burg , the seventeen-year-old Schulze undertook flight attempts with motorless gliders on the Gütter mountains. A year later, Schulze went to the Hans Grade aircraft factory in Bork . Schulze returned to Burg in the summer of 1910 and built his first monoplane in a shed on the Ihle Canal . "Flieger-Schulze" presented this type I on September 12, 1910 in the Burger Konzerthaus. On October 16, 1910, the first public flight took place on the “Krähenberge”, a parade ground between Burg and Madel . After several improvements to the filigree airplane, Schulze passed the pilot's test on his Type II on May 27, 1911. Two days later he was issued the German FAI patent number 87. In addition to aircraft construction, Schulze also ran a flight school from September 1911 . Schulze's “grasshopper” took part in various sightseeing flights and flight meetings in Cologne, Dortmund and Halberstadt with modest success. During the autumn flight week in Johannisthal, he destroyed his aircraft before take-off. Gustav Schulze presented his new Airplane Type III to a wider public in April 1912 at the General Aircraft Exhibition in Berlin.

In the spring of 1912 Schulze founded the Gustav Schulze aircraft factory in Burg. Schulze trained pilots there, built further monoplane with specially patented lever controls by the end of the year and took part in other flight events in Germany.

During the First World War he had to close his aircraft factory and worked in the military as a flight instructor and one-flyer. In 1920 Schulze sold the closed aircraft factory to Georg and Julius Hüffer. In a Burger workshop from 1921 Schulze constructed engines, registered patents and assembled and sold light motorcycles.

literature

  • Martin Wiehle : Altmark personalities. Biographical lexicon of the Altmark, the Elbe-Havel-Land and the Jerichower Land (= contributions to the cultural history of the Altmark and its peripheral areas. Vol. 5). Dr. ziethen verlag, Oschersleben 1999, ISBN 3-932090-61-6
  • Bruno Lange: Type manual of German aviation technology , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1986, page 35
  • Peter Supf: The book of German flight history , volumes 1 & 2, Hermann Klemm publishing house, Berlin 1935
  • René Scheer: Provincial Eagle Gustav Schulze in Aviation Classics , Volume 2020, Issue 3, Page 28

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burg Kirchenbuch, entry no. 125 of February 17, 1891 in: Lutherische Kirchenbücher, 1760–1890. State Archives Saxony-Anhalt, Magdeburg.
  2. ↑ Axel Thiem: Schulze, Ernst August Gustav. In: Magdeburg Biographical Lexicon. MBL working group, Institute for German Studies, University of Magdeburg, March 4, 2005, accessed on April 14, 2020 .
  3. ^ City and district archives Jerichower Land, Burg
  4. ↑ Peter Supf: The book of German flight history , Volume 1, page 494
  5. ↑ Aviation, year 1911, page 462 ff.
  6. ↑ Deutsche Luftfahrer Zeitschrift, year 1912, page 153
  7. ↑ Aviation, year 1912, page 82 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Schulze, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulze, Ernst August Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pilot and aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle near Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1932
Place of death Castle near Magdeburg