Gustav Tweer

Gustav Tweer

Tomb at the Johannisfriedhof in Osnabrück

Gustav Tweer (born July 5, 1893 in Osnabrück , † November 1, 1916 in Hanover ) was a German aerobatic pilot and aviation pioneer . He was the first German dive and loop pilot .

Life

Gustav Tweer attended the Carolinum grammar school in Osnabrück. He then completed a commercial apprenticeship.

He learned aerobatics from the French Adolphe Pégoud , who was the first stunt pilot. He received his pilot's license number 180 on April 18, 1912 after successfully completing his training at Hans Grade's flight school . Tweer had started his flight training in Münster at the Kurscheidt flight school, but soon switched to degrees in Bork in the Mark (Brandenburg)

In June 1912 he organized an “imperial flight day” on the “Vehrter Rennplatz”, a horse racing track known at the time.

Gustav Tweer made various flight demonstrations, including in Weimar and Erfurt , where he performed his tricks on May 31, 1914 on Johannesplatz . In Osnabrück people were initially skeptical about his “circus flying”. From the end of 1912 he was able to use the Netter Heide airfield.

At the beginning of the First World War he volunteered. He flew as an artillery observer on the eastern and western fronts as well as armed escort for reconnaissance . In 1915 he was recalled from military service and switched to “HAWA”, the Hanoverian wagon factory , as a “one-flyer” in Hanover. There he had a fatal accident on November 1, 1916, when he flew in a new type of aircraft. The machine crashed on the Vahrenwalder Heide .

Gustav Tweer is buried in Osnabrück at the Johannisfriedhof .

Awards

• Iron Cross (1914) II and I. Class

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Kosche: Corridors across the Johannisfriedhof . Support group Hasefriedhof - Johannisfriedhof eV (ed.). Osnabrück 2007, pp. 28-29
2. ↑ grave at the coordinates 52.25914 °  N , 8.05186 °  O

Web links

• Gustav Tweer in the NOZ