In Memoriam Bider / Mittelholzer / Zimmermann
In Memoriam Bider / Mittelholzer / Zimmermann was a Swiss cooperative founded in 1937 . The company's purpose was to promote air traffic, particularly with regard to national defense .
Corporate purpose
According to its statutes, the cooperative should promote air travel in general. This should be achieved through the establishment of flight training facilities, the purchase of aircraft and the necessary accessories, through participation in aircraft factories and through participation in companies with similar purposes.
history
Gottlieb Duttweiler , founder of Migros and National Council ( LdU ) submitted a postulate in October 1937 with the aim of acquiring 1,000 aircraft for the Swiss Air Force and training 3,000 pilots to improve national defense . He reckoned it would cost 300 million francs.
He founded the cooperative on August 15, 1938 to train pilots on glider and motorized pilots . It was named after the flight pioneers Oskar Bider , Walter Mittelholzer and Balz Zimmermann . Duttweiler made 500,000 francs available for the purposes of the cooperative. It was primarily used to finance model building courses to get young people interested in aviation. Student pilots who could not pay for the training themselves were also supported. A glider that was given by his staff in Duttweiler for their 50th birthday was made available to the “Swiss Aeroclub” for the purpose of training young people.
The problem was that the pilots trained by the cooperative were often not assigned to the air force for military service. Duttweiler was bitter about it. The chief of arms of the air force responded to a request by saying that he saw a big difference between the control of a civil and a military aircraft. Controlling a military aircraft is a "science" and it is only during the training of recruits and non-commissioned officers that it can be determined whether the applicants meet the relevant requirements. If this is the case, the free training as a sports pilot would be part of the training, so that private initiative is unnecessary. The cooperative was unable to achieve the goals it had set itself, despite the best material starting conditions and the early ownership of ten gliders and three motorized pilots under these conditions. Large parts of the Swiss army command also saw the border fortifications as a more important defense measure than the establishment of the air force.
Rudolf Suter was the head of the cooperative . It stopped its activity in 1939. It was dissolved on November 15, 1947. The remaining losses of 2500 francs were taken over by the Migros Cooperative Association.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Georg Ramseier: The emergence and development of the state ring of the independents until 1943. Chemigraphisches Institut, Glattbrugg 1973, p. 176.
- ↑ Hans Georg Ramseier: The emergence and development of the state ring of the independents until 1943. Chemigraphisches Institut, Glattbrugg 1973, p. 66.
- ↑ Hans Georg Ramseier: The origin and development of the state ring of the independents until 1943. Chemigraphisches Institut. Glattbrugg 1973, p. 67.
- ↑ The "Götti" expected more from us. In: Bridge Builders , January 11, 1984.
- ↑ Hans Georg Ramseier: The emergence and development of the state ring of the independents until 1943. Chemigraphisches Institut, Glattbrugg 1973, p. 67.
- ↑ Hans Georg Ramseier: The emergence and development of the state ring of the independents until 1943. Chemigraphisches Institut, Glattbrugg 1973, p. 67/68.
- ↑ The "Götti" expected more from us. in: Brückenbauer , January 11, 1984.
- ↑ Hans Georg Ramseier: The emergence and development of the state ring of the independents until 1943. Chemigraphisches Institut, Glattbrugg 1973, p. 176.