Holger Steinle

Holger Steinle (* 1948 ) is a German professor of economics and collector of historical aircraft. Until his retirement in 2013, he was head of the aerospace department of the German Museum of Technology Berlin (DTMB).

Life

Holger Steinle studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Berlin . He holds two doctoral degrees (Dr.-Ing. And Dr. pol.), Which he obtained at the TU Berlin.

In 1985 Steinle took over the management of the aerospace department of the then Museum for Transport and Technology Berlin. On behalf of the museum, he was looking for lost aircraft in German aviation history around the world. He is particularly interested in the former German Aviation Collection , which disappeared in the turmoil of World War II .

The permanent exhibition of the German Museum of Technology, which opened in 2005, documents over 200 years of German aviation history. Each of the more than 40 aircraft on display was brought to Berlin by Holger Steinle in over 20 years of work .

Around 20 exhibits from around 120 aircraft from the former German Aviation Collection in Berlin, which opened in 1936 and closed in 1943, are now in the Polish Aviation Museum in Krakow . The aircraft were relocated to Pomerania in 1943 and remained in Poland after the end of World War II . The question of ownership is still a matter of dispute today. Steinle comments on this as follows:

"But my work will only be finished when the monuments to aviation technology that are still stored in Krakow are here again."

- Holger Steinle

Publications (selection)

• The changeover from flow production to individual or group production. Causes, implementation and results; presented on the basis of an empirical study in the Federal Republic of Germany. Dissertation TU Berlin 1978.
• Participatory planning of new forms of production organization. Minerva publication, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-597-10404-5 . (Dissertation TU Berlin 1981)
• A train station on the siding. The former Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin and its history. Silberstreif, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-924091-00-5 .
• with Michael Hundertmark: Phoenix from the ashes. The German Aviation Collection Berlin. Berlin 1985,
• with Marian Krzyżan: The Jeannin steel pigeon A.180-14. From the beginning of aviation in Johannisthal. Bonn 1989.
• with Marian Krzyżan: The Halberstadt Cl.IV D-IBAO. From the pioneering years of German aviation. Bonn 1992.
• with Astrid Venn: Airplanes with a history. The aviation collection of the German Museum of Technology in Berlin. Königswinter 2009, ISBN 3-86852-206-9 .

documentation

• The sunken planes . Germany 2004, ARTE , first broadcast, report by Jörg Daniel Hissen, Peter Moers (52 min.); Information about the report

literature

• Jörn Sucher: Fighter of the lost planes. At: Spiegel Online , April 25, 2005.

Web links

• Literature by and about Holger Steinle in the catalog of the German National Library
• Interview with Prof. Dr. Dr. Holger Steinle on YouTube, Documentation A Century in Flight on the history of German aerospace (1907–2007)
• The sunken planes on YouTube, 360 ° - GEO report, documentation from 2004 about the search for lost planes, for the reconstruction of the German Aviation Collection of the Technisches Museum Berlin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Holger Steinle: German rocket researchers in the service of the Soviet Union. In: Wolf Stamm-Kuhlmann: Rocket armor and international security from 1942 to today. Volume 56, Stuttgart 2004, p. 27.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Patricia Pätzold: The "aircraft archaeologist". Holger Steinle is building up an important collection on German aviation. (PDF) In: parTU - The Alumni Magazine. 10/2005, Berlin, p. 17.
3. ↑ Marcel Gäding: The dream of flying . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 15, 2005.
4. ↑ Christina Tilmann: Dispute over an aviation collection. In: Der Tagesspiegel , September 21, 2010.
5. ↑ Dirk Meyhöfer: Belly landings also make sense. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 22, 2010.
6. ↑ Jörn Sucher: Fighter of the lost planes. At: Spiegel Online , April 25, 2005.