Hino Kumazo

Hino Kumazo

Hino Kumazō ( Japanese 日 野 熊 蔵 ; born June 9, 1878 in Hitoyoshi , † January 15, 1946 in Hitoyoshi) was a Japanese aviation pioneer and inventor.

Life

Hino Kumazō was born in Hitoyoshi City in Kumamoto Prefecture , the son of a Samurai of the Sagara fief . On behalf of the Imperial Japanese Army , Captain Hino traveled to Germany in May 1910 to learn about aviation and to acquire potential aircraft for Japan. Hino got his pilot's license in a Wright Model A biplane at the Johannisthal airfield in Berlin.

In the Grade works he acquired a Grade monoplane , type dragonfly, which he shipped to Japan. There, the aircraft was reassembled and converted into one of Japan's first aircraft prototypes. In the same year he returned to Japan, where on December 19, 1910 he was the first Japanese man to take a manned aircraft into the air in his home country with the Grade biplane.

In 2010, on the 100th anniversary of his pioneer flight, Hino Kumazō was honored post mortem with the honorary citizenship of his hometown. In addition to his work as a pilot, Hino also did research in the field of automobiles and weapons. So he developed the semi-automatic "Hino-type pistol". Hino lost a finger while making the pistol. Hino Kumazō died on January 15, 1946 of malnutrition during the mass poverty after World War II .

literature

• Alexander Kauther, Paul Wirtz: Kumazô HINO (1878-1946). A Japanese aviator in Berlin-Johannisthal . GRIN, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-640-99495-3 .

swell

• Rudolf Hartmann: Japanese officers in the German Empire 1870–1914 . In: Japonica Humboldtiana . No. 11 , 2007 ( PDF ).
• Hino, Kumazô 日 野 熊 蔵 (1878-1946). In: The Japanese Memory. Retrieved November 11, 2013 . 
• Bernd Lepach: - H -: HINO, Kumazō. In: Meiji Portraits. Retrieved November 11, 2013 . 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus, Hino is the family name, Kumazō the first name.