Hans von Schiller
Hans von Schiller (born March 17, 1891 Gut Buckhagen , Schleswig-Holstein province , † December 8, 1976 in Tübingen ) was a German naval officer and aeronaut .
Life
Hans von Schiller attended high school in Plön Castle . In 1912 he joined the Imperial Navy as a midshipman . At the beginning of the First World War , as an ensign at sea, he did not want to wait for his warship to sail as planned. He managed to get on a torpedo boat - which broke down shortly after leaving the port . Without consulting his superiors, he then reported to naval aviation . Because of this "desertion" to a lighthouse demoted, he acquired within ten days patent as a radio operator . In March 1915, he passed the Luftschifführer exam before Hugo Eckener . He got to know Ferdinand von Zeppelin personally.
Last lieutenant at sea , he had 221 take-offs at Friedrichshafen Airport , Nordholz Air Base , August Euler Airfield , Devau Airport , Ahlhorner Heide Airfield and in Hage and Tondern with five naval airships . Its captain was Horst Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels .
After the war, he became a pioneer in air travel . He covered 1,000,000 km on 24 zeppelins . He traveled the Arctic , circled the world in 1929 as a navigational officer under Eckener and made countless trips to South America and the United States . From 1935 to 1937 he was in command of LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin . Because of a delay in Rio de Janeiro , he did not reach LZ 129 Hindenburg in Friedrichshafen in 1937 , which drove to Lakehurst and had an accident on May 6th while landing.
As a major in the Air Force , he became the commandant of Cologne-Butzweilerhof Airport in 1940 . He and his family survived Operation Millennium . Promoted to lieutenant colonel, he was from December 4, 1943 to August 19, 1944 Sea Emergency Service Leader 5 in Oslo . In 1945 he helped clear the Rhine in Cologne . In 1948 the city appointed him director of Cologne's Rhine ports .
Dedicated
Aboard a Zeppelin was from aluminum manufactured wings of Blüthner . On his many crossings of the North Atlantic , Leopold Godowsky evidently took a liking to him and v. Schiller; for he dedicated a (left-handed) study to him about the Chopin Etudes .
Web links
- Hans von Schiller: The Zeppelin Airship in the Service of the Navy (1925)
- ezeptalk.de
- Polar journey by LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin (1931) at www.histoarktis.de accessed on January 27, 2016
- Image v. Schillers
- Newspaper article about Hans von Schiller in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hans von Schiller (Munzinger)
- ^ Zeppelin Museum Tønder
- ↑ a b Len Deighton: The lost cathedrals of the sky: A heartfelt lament .
- ^ Passengers and Crew of Graf Zeppelin's Round the World Flight of 1929
- ^ History of the Butzweilerhof Airport. Retrieved February 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Sea Emergency Service Guide 5 (Michael Holm)
- ↑ butzweilerhof.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Count von Zeppelin and his airships. Navarra-Verlag-Gesellschaft, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-86538-963-3 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schiller, Hans von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schiller, Hans Caspar Michael von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German naval and air force officer, aeronaut |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 17, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buckhagen estate , Schleswig-Holstein province |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1976 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |