Hans Guido Mutke

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Hans Guido Mutke (* 25. March 1921 in Neisse , † 8. April 2004 in Munich ) served in World War II as a fighter pilot in the Air Force , was active after the war, first as a commercial pilot and later as a doctor in the aviation medicine and as a gynecologist working .

Second World War

When the war began in 1939, he had just started studying medicine at the Charité in Berlin when he was drafted. He registered as a pilot for the Air Force and, after completing his basic flying training, completed the night fighter school in Schleissheim and Riem on the Bf 110 . His task force was initially Nachtjagdgeschwader 1 , where he flew the Do 217 . He later switched to the 5 night fighter squadron and flew the Bf 110 again there. At the beginning of April 1945, he was transferred to the 2 supplementary fighter squadron and retrained there on the Messerschmitt Me 262.

Mutke claimed that on April 9, 1945 he broke the sound barrier over Innsbruck with his Messerschmitt Me 262 when he wanted to help a comrade attacked by Allied aircraft and to do this he took a dive . Mutke always considered it possible that other pilots of the Me 262 could have succeeded in doing this before him, so he never explicitly claimed to have been the first person to break the sound barrier in an airplane. The Me 262, however, was neither aerodynamically nor structurally able to break the sound barrier (Mach = 1.0). Flight tests showed that flutter vibrations started from a Mach number of M = 0.83. The critical Mach number M = 0.86 is given as the flyability limit of the Me 262.

On April 25, 1945 Hans Guido Mutke flew the "White 3", a Me 262 A-1a / R1, W.-Nr. 500071, to Dübendorf in Switzerland . The aircraft belonged to the 9th squadron of JG 7 and is now in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

After the war

After the war, Hans Guido Mutke continued his medical studies in Bern and Zurich, which he had begun before the war, and worked for several years as a pilot for airlines in Argentina and Bolivia. After his return to Germany he practiced as a gynecologist, but kept his connection to aviation as a reserve officer in the Bundeswehr .

From 1967 to the mid-1980s, as one of the pioneers in this field, he carried out heterologous inseminations with donor sperm (AID) in his practice in Munich ; he carried out research in the field of the use of frozen donor sperm in particular. In this way, well over 1,000 children were conceived in his practice. In contrast to today's knowledge and the current legal status, Mutke still assumed in his work that it would be psychologically best for the families concerned if all information about the fact of conception through a sperm donation and the origin of the donor remained secret and this circumstance should never come to the knowledge of the resulting child.

Mutke also researched aerospace medicine issues and received several patents in this area.

Hans Guido Mutke died on April 8, 2004 during heart surgery. He had given his body to the plastinator Gunther von Hagens .

Individual evidence

  1. Uwe W. Jack: Did the Me 262 really fly faster than sound? In: FLiEGERREVUE X . No. 48 . Möller Druck und Verlag, Ahrensfelde 2014, p. 42 ff .
  2. Hans-Ulrich Meier (Ed.): The swept wing development in Germany until 1945. (= Die deutsche Luftfahrt. Volume 33). Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-7637-6130-6 , p. 306.
  3. WIFS: The first jet fighter. ( Memento from December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) in Switzerland
  4. Hans Guido Mutke . In: The Independent . May 1, 2004 ( independent.co.uk [accessed November 23, 2017]).
  5. ^ WH Bleichrodt, HG Mutke: A comparison of fresh and frozen semen in AID practice . In: William Thompson, Robert F. Harrison, John Bonnar (Eds.): The Male Factor in Human Infertility Diagnosis and Treatment . Dublin 1983, p. 209-212 .
  6. Hans-Peter Legal, Hans G. Mutke: We would love to have a baby . Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1979, ISBN 3-404-01171-8  ( formally incorrect ) , p. 154-158 .
  7. Femurinal. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
  8. Device for transporting people lying down, especially in aircraft. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .