Hartmuth Baldamus

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Hartmuth Baldamus (born August 10, 1891 in Dresden , † April 14, 1917 in Sainte-Marie-à-Py ) was a Saxon officer and fighter pilot in the First World War .

Life

Hartmuth was the son of the merchant and commercial judge Rudolf Baldamus. His mother died in 1925.

Baldamus first attended the Kreuzschule in his youth and obtained his Abitur in 1911 at the Royal High School in Dresden Neustadt . He then worked at the Dresden railway workshops. Baldamus completed his subsequent studies in mechanical engineering in Dresden, Kiel and Munich . When the First World War threatened to break out in the summer of 1914, he took a leave of absence from the Technical University of Dresden and went to Johannisthal to receive pilot training. From October 1915 he then flew single-seater fighter planes on the Western Front ; however to achieve a longer time without kills. On March 15, 1916, Baldamus achieved his first aerial victory. From November of the same year, his shooting figures in the 9 squadron rose to 18 aerial victories. Due to the flight technique of circling his opponents like an insect, he was nicknamed wasp . During his last deployment on April 14, 1917, he collided with an opponent and was killed in the process.

The burial took place in the Tolkewitz cemetery in Dresden.

literature

  • Lothar Brehmer: Aviation in Saxony. A historical summary. Uni-Media Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3932019326 , pp. 26-27.

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