Hugo Huebner

Hugo Hübner (born February 2, 1882 in Mosbach ; † November 18, 1938 there ) was a German manufacturer and aircraft designer .

Life

Hugo Hübner came from the family that also owned the Mosbacher brewery. He studied chemistry in Karlsruhe and Berlin. In 1907 he completed his studies with a doctorate. After that, he began building various aircraft. First he carried out his flight tests in the vicinity of his hometown. In 1911 he went to Mannheim and built a double-decker there. After a serious accident, he no longer flew the machines he had built himself, but had his designs tested by Paul Senge . In the course of 1912 he built three monoplane and a seaplane, with which he took part in the "First German Seaplane Competition" in Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea. In the winter of 1912/13 he gave up the costly aircraft construction after his father intervened. In the 1930s he designed two more gliders.

The last monoplane built by Hübner in Mannheim in 1912 is now in the Sinsheim Auto and Technology Museum .

literature

• Sebastian Parzer: The beginnings of aviation in Mannheim before the First World War. In: Mannheim history sheets. NF 17. 2009, pp. 35-42.
• Peter W. Cohausz: The planes of the Mosbach aviation pioneer Dr. Hugo Huebner. In: Mosbacher Jahresheft , year 18, ed. from the History and Museum Association Mosbach u. the large district town of Mosbach, Mosbach 2008, pp. 109–126, ISBN 3-936866-14-7 .
• Markus M. Wieland: Hugo Hübner, the aviation pioneer. In: Badische Heimat . 83, 2003, pp. 100-103.