Hansa-Brandenburg

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Hansa- and Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke AG (HBF)
legal form Corporation
founding 1914
Seat Brandenburg an der Havel , Germany
management
Branch Aircraft manufacturer

The Hansa- und Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke AG ( HBF ), also often Hansa-Brandenburg ( HB ) for short , was an important aircraft manufacturer for the German and Austrian armed forces in World War I and during this time the place of activity of the important aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel .

history

The well-known aviation pioneer Igo Etrich , which extends through the construction of Etrich dove had made a name, founded in 1914 in Briest near Brandenburg an der Havel , the Brandenburg aircraft plants GmbH with personnel working previously for him Ernst Heinkel as chief designer. The bustling Austrian industrialist Camillo Castiglioni acquired Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke GmbH and Hansa-Flugzeug-Werke Hamburg Carl Caspar in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel in July 1915 , which he merged with his company, Deutsche Aero-Gesellschaft AG , which had existed since 1914 , and the whole thing became Hansa and renamed Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke AG . In 1918, Max Oertz's boat and yacht yard in Hamburg was added, apparently with the aim of expanding production to include seaplanes . The company's share capital at that time was 3 million marks .

After the war, Hansa-Brandenburg had to give up aircraft construction due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . However, the company existed until at least 1925, with Castiglioni and Heinkel forming the board of directors and the company's purpose continued to be described as follows: manufacture and sale of all types of aircraft and all other products considered for aviation, giving flight instruction, acquisition and exploitation of inventions , Patents and licenses in the field of airship travel . The share capital was only 20,000 Reichsmarks , however , income from patent licenses may have been the only sales achieved.

developments

During the war, the company, headed by Heinkel, built a large number of its own aircraft for the German and Austro-Hungarian air forces , the latter partly under license from Austro-Hungarian aircraft factories.

The large bomber Friedrichshafen G.III , which was later manufactured under license by the Hanseatische Flugzeugwerke in Hamburg, which was formally spun off from the company, is often included in the production of HB .

Particularly noteworthy were the sea combat aircraft that were deployed from German and Austro-Hungarian seaplane stations on the North Sea and the Mediterranean .

Training aircraft

Unarmed scouts

Armed scouts

Fighter planes

bomber

Float planes

Flying boats

See also

literature

  • Handbook of German stock corporations , 30th edition 1925, Volume II, p. 2929.
  • Jürgen Thorwald (Ed.), Ernst Heinkel: Stormy life . Mundus-Verlag, Stuttgart 1953. / as reprint : Aviatic-Verlag, Oberhaching 1998, ISBN 3-925505-46-6 .
  • Enzo Angelucci, Paolo Matricardi: Airplanes from the beginnings to the First World War. Wiesbaden 1976, ISBN 3-8068-0391-9 .
  • Günter Kroschel, Helmut Stützer: The German military aircraft 1910–1918. Wilhelmshaven 1977.
  • Kenneth Munson: Bomber 1914-1919. Orell Füssli Verlag , Zurich 1968.
  • Kenneth Munson: Warplanes 1914-1919. Orell Füssli Verlag, Zurich 1968.
  • Heinz Nowarra: The Development of Airplanes 1914-18. Munich 1959.

Web links

Commons : Aircraft from Hansa-Brandenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Aircraft from the Hansa- and Brandenburgische Flugzeugwerke AG


Wheeled aircraft :

D  • FD  • LDD  • DD  • MLD  • ZM  • GF  • GFK  • KF  • KD / V  • KDD  • K  • L 14  • L 15  • L 16 

Float planes :

W  • NW  • LW  • GNW  • KW  • KDW  • W 11  • W 12  • GW  • GDW  • W 16  • W 19  • W 25  • W 26  • W 27  • W 29  • W 32  • W 33  • W 34 

Flying boats :

FB  • CC  • W 13  • W 17  • W 18  • W 20  • W 23  • W 35