Hermann Roeder (pilot)

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Hermann Roeder (born November 14, 1892 in Dresden , † June 4, 1937 in Berlin ) was a German pilot and aviation pioneer.

Life

Hermann Roeder initially studied at the TH Dresden . In 1912 he completed his first solo flight before earning his pilot's certificate on September 6, 1913. For some time Roeder worked at Gustav Schultze's flight school in Madel . From 1914 he was employed as chief pilot at BMW in Nuremberg .

Roeder flew bombing raids and reconnaissance flights during the First World War . As a lieutenant colonel , he commanded units in the Dardanelles and the Orient . He flew in an Albatros B from Herkulesbad ( Romania ) to Constantinople in nine and a half hours, as ordered . He was the only one of eight pilots to cross the finish line.

In 1922 he went to the aircraft manufacturer Junkers & Co. At times he was Hugo Junkers' personal pilot . In 1925 he could already look back on 100,000 flight kilometers. In 1926 Roeder flew to Bangkok in a Junkers F 13 . With such an F 13 he held several world records in 1927. In 1930 he received the Junkers flight captain diploma . Junkers terminated his employment contract on June 30, 1930. Roeder was employed by Heinrich Koppenberg as a personal pilot in 1933 . In 1937, however, Roeder worked for Junkers again and took over the management of the factory pilot school.

On a flight from Dessau to Berlin, Roeder had a fatal accident in a crash with a Junkers A 50 . He was buried in the Holy Cross cemetery. His grave no longer exists.

Honors

The city of Magdeburg temporarily named a street in his honor as Hermann-Roeder-Straße .

Fonts

  • Aircraft navigation and air transport. Verlag Otto Hermann Hörisch, Dresden 1927.
  • Economic aviation. Verlag Otto Hermann Hörisch, Dresden 1929.

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