Hindenburg Cup
The Hindenburg Cup was the highest recognition of flying performance in powered flight from 1928 and also in gliding from 1930 . It was donated by the Reich President and Field Marshal General Paul von Hindenburg “for the best annual achievement”. Proposals for the award were worked out jointly from 1928 to 1932 by Ring der Flieger eV and the German Aviation Association . The trophy was a successor to the Kaiser Prize of the earlier Prince Heinrich flights , although this went to the winner in a defined competition.
The winners of the Hindenburg Cup were:
- 1928 Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen (powered flight) for his flight Berlin - Moscow - Tehran
- 1929 Wolf Hirth (powered flight) for various European flights and his Iceland flight
- 1930 Heinrich Schlerf (powered flight) for voluntary training
- 1930 Robert Kronfeld (glider flight) for his achievements in the 10th Rhön competition
- 1931 August Lauw (powered flight) for his flight Wilhelmshaven - Alexandria
- 1931 Günther Groenhoff (glider flight) for his success with DFS Fafnir
- 1932 Elly Beinhorn (powered flight) for her flight performance in 1931 and 1932 with Klemm Kl 26
- 1932 Wolf Hirth (glider flight) for his achievements and research in thermal flight
- 1933 Karl Schwabe (powered flight) for his flight Böblingen - Cape Town
- 1933 Peter Riedel (glider flight) for his "great flying achievement" and observations of thermal updrafts
- In 1934 no trophy was awarded for powered flight
- 1934 Heini Dittmar (glider flight) for two international records and a special route performance
After Hindenburg's death (1934), the Hindenburg Cup was replaced by the Adolf Hitler Prize . The first recipient of this award was:
- 1935 Ludwig Hofmann (glider flight) for his world record in cross-country flight and the overall victory in the 15th Rhön competition
literature
- Karl Anders, Hans Eichelbaum: Dictionary of aviation. Quelle and Meyer, Leipzig 1937.
- Peter Supf : The book of German flight history. Volume 2: Pre-War, War, Post-War. Klemm, Berlin-Grunewald 1935 (2nd revised, improved and expanded edition. Drei-Brunnen-Verlag Stuttgart 1958).
- Georg Brütting : The book of German flight history. Volume 3: The great time of German aviation until 1945. Drei-Brunnen-Verlag Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-87174-001-2 .