Hans-Martin Pippart

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Hans-Martin Pippart (born May 14, 1888 in Mannheim ; † August 11, 1918 at Noyon ) was an aircraft designer. As an officer of the Air Force , he scored 22 confirmed kills in the First World War .

Life and war effort

In the years immediately before the First World War, the Mannheim architect Hans-Martin Pippart worked as an aircraft designer together with his brother-in-law, the manufacturer Heinrich Noll from Schwarzach in the Little Odenwald. The first machine built by the two, which was already called the "Pippart-Noll 2", made its first laps over the Mannheim parade ground in May 1912. In June 1912, both then applied for various patents in Germany and 12 other countries. At about the same time they started building the "Pippart-Noll 3" machine. In the spring of 1913, the two designers then presented a military monoplane to the public, which was powered by a 70 hp Opel Argus engine. In 1912 and 1913, the planes manufactured by Pippart and Noll could be seen on sightseeing flights in Mannheim and Karlsruhe. However, the establishment of an aircraft factory aimed at by the two designers did not materialize.

It remains unclear whether Pippart also flew the aircraft himself and Heinrich Noll built. In contemporary reporting, other people are always named as pilots. Nevertheless, when the war broke out, he reported to the air force. Initially working as a flight instructor, he later came to the Eastern Front, where he scored his first aerial victories against Russian pilots and tethered balloons in his Roland D.II in 1917 .

Lieutenant Pippart flew in the artillery aviation division FA (A) 220 and in the combat squadron 1 on the Eastern Front. At the beginning of 1918 he was transferred as a fighter pilot to Jagdgeschwader II for Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 13, and in May 1918 to Jasta 19 near Balâtre, where he won numerous other aerial victories, first with his Fokker Dr.I and later with his Fokker D.VII . He defeated the French fighter pilot and Knight of the Legion of Honor, Lieutenant Charles Boudoux d'Hautefeuille, and also became one of the most successful balloon hunters: The tethered balloons secured by flak and protective aircraft, with which the enemy observed the battlefield and directed the artillery fire, were particularly dangerous targets.

Hit list

date unit opponent place
1 May 25, 1917 Kasta 1 Farman Troscianiat, northwest of Silwko
2 June 20, 1917 Kasta 1 balloon Kolodzie Jowska
3 June 26, 1917 Kasta 1 balloon Delejow at Lany
4th August 25, 1917 Kasta 1 balloon Ryngacz, east of Chernivtsi
5 October 4, 1917 Kasta 1 Sopwith Cermanowka
6th October 23, 1917 Kasta 1 balloon Syrowzy
7th February 21, 1918 Jasta 13 balloon northwest of La Fère
8th March 6, 1918 Jasta 13 SE5a Fort Mayot
9 April 1, 1918 Jasta 13 balloon west of Montdidier
10 April 20, 1918 Jasta 13 Breguet 14 west of Chaunier
11 May 2, 1918 Jasta 19th Breguet 14 Noyon-Roye
12 May 4, 1918 Jasta 19th Spad XIII southeast of Montdidier
13 May 6, 1918 Jasta 19th Spad XIII northwest of Montdidier
14th May 30, 1918 Jasta 19th Breguet 14 Cuts-Charlepont
15th June 12, 1918 Jasta 19th SE5a Lagny
16 July 15, 1918 Jasta 19th Spad XIII northwest of St. Ménéhould
17th July 16, 1918 Jasta 19th Spad XII Suippes
18th July 17, 1918 Jasta 19th Breguet 14
19th July 17, 1918 Jasta 19th Spad XIII Chassins domans
20th July 22, 1918 Jasta 19th Caudron R.11 Doumans Mourmelon
21st July 22, 1918 Jasta 19th Spad XIII Mourmelon
22nd August 11, 1918 Jasta 19th balloon Vrely

death

On August 11, 1918, Pippart attacked a tethered balloon near Noyon on the Western Front, with his machine being badly damaged and he had to jump off with a parachute. Since the parachute did not open, Pippart fell to his death.

Awards

literature

  • Angelika Dreianzigacker : The Mannheim aviation pioneer Hans Pippart , in: History of the City of Mannheim, Vol. 3 1914–2007, ed. on behalf of the city of Mannheim by Ulrich Nieß and Michael Caroli, Ubstadt-Weiher 2009, p. 34f.
  • Sebastian Parzer: The beginnings of aviation in Mannheim before the First World War , in: Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter NF 17 (2009), pp. 35–42.
  • Hans-Erhard Lessing: Mannheimer Pioniere , Mannheim, 2007, pp. 111–120.

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ http://historico.oepm.es/museovirtual/coleccion.asp?idioma=de&modalidad=0&ref=53186&id=33  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / historico.oepm.es  
  2. ↑ http://www.aviastar.org/air/germany/pippart-noll_pn-3.php photo
  3. ↑ http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%201227.html
  4. ↑ cf. Archive link ( Memento of the original from June 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.fsv-karlsruhe.de
  5. ↑ cf. http://santerre1418.chez.com/fr/portraits/hautefeuille.htm

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personal data
SURNAME Pippart, Hans-Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aircraft designer and fighter pilot in the First World War
DATE OF BIRTH May 14, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1918
Place of death at Noyon