Hans Richter (gliding pioneer)

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Hans Richter (born June 8, 1891 in Berlin ; lost during World War II) was a German gliding pioneer and magician (artist name Ernin ).

Life

Richter made his first attempts at gliding in 1908 as a high school student in Swinoujscie . From 1910 he constructed various gliders ( hang gliders ) with which he carried out sightseeing flights at the airfields in Johannisthal and Stölln near Rhinow . There he tested, among other things, a glider that he had acquired and developed by Waldemar Geest , the “Weih”. From 1912 Richter was trained as a pilot and served in various field aviation departments during the First World War . After his unfit for service, he was trained as a magician by Friedrich Wilhelm Conrad Horster and took the stage name Ernin .

From 1923 he built six reconstructions of Otto Lilienthal's flying machines for museums in Anklam , Berlin, Munich , Meudon and others. In 1924 Richter made a silent film with himself as a Lilienthal actor and his reconstruction of his flying machine with the title Otto Lilienthal, the old master of the art of flying

In March 1936, Hans Richter appeared under the stage name Ernin in the Chemnitz cabaret Libelle . Here he showed the transformation of a glove, from huge to very small, a four-ace card trick with regular playing cards, the ghost boards and some card manipulations .

Individual references and works

  1. ^ A b Friedemann and Johannes Hille: The history of the airfield in Stölln near Rhinow. (PDF; 2.4 MB) In: edor.org. 2013, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Hans Richter: German Flight Almanach, Verlag Guido Hackebeil, Berlin 1925
  3. ↑ Gliding pioneer and magician at the same time. In Berliner Illustrierte night edition. June 9, 1941 Digitized in the archive of the Otto Lilienthal Museum
  4. ↑ Herbert Studtrucker: Hans-Otto Richter-Lilienthal in Archive Info German Museum 2009, Issue 1, p. 20 and film in the archive of the Otto Lilienthal Museum
  5. ^ Organ Magic of the Magical Circle of Germany , Issue 7, Volume 19, July 1963, Page 128
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ernin (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German gliding pioneer and variety artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 20th century