Hans-Martin Pippart
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
- Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ http://www.aviastar.org/air/germany/pippart-noll_pn-3.php photo
- ↑ http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1913/1913%20-%201227.html
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ cf. http://santerre1418.chez.com/fr/portraits/hautefeuille.htm
See also
Web links
- photo
- http://users.accesscomm.ca/magnusfamily/ww1ger.htm
- http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/pippart.php
personal data | |
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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 |