Jan Anderle

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Jan Anderle (* 1900 in Vyškov ; † December 13, 1982 in Mulhouse ) was a Moravian - Czech test pilot and designer who u. a. also influenced Czech industrial design.

Life

Drawing of a Dálník developed by Jan Anderle from the 1940s

In 1914 he started in Brno ( Brno ) trained as a machinist and was an engine driver. In 1918 he fought in the Austro-Hungarian army on the Piave in Italy. In 1921 he began his military service in Olomouc ( Olomouc ), the flight school graduated in Cheb (Eger) and became a flight instructor in Prostějov (Prostějov). In 1929 he started as a test pilot .

During the Second World War he was interrogated by the German Gestapo following an anonymous tip-off, but his qualification as a test pilot saved him from further persecution. Between 1938 and 1941 he developed 25 Einspurwagen called Dálník , with streamlined body on a motorcycle engine, similar later Cabin scooters . It differed from the Mauser single-track car in that the support wheels could be raised by hand or foot, which made the start-up process easier.

After the war he was the chief test pilot and designer for the Czech aircraft factory Aero .

After the Communists came to power in 1948 , he fled to the West on an aero machine . He returned at the urging of his wife, but was sentenced to fifteen years in prison in 1950 and his property was confiscated. As a “traitor, spy , saboteur and enemy of the working class” he spent five years in the uranium mines in Jáchymov (Sankt Joachimsthal) and two years in the prison hospital. After his release in 1957, he had to do six years of forced labor building a dam on the Lipno reservoir .

In 1963 he emigrated to Kirchheim in Germany and later to Mulhouse in France, where he lived at the Mulhouse-Habsheim airfield .

Individual evidence

  1. a b Kouzelné motocykly Jana Anderleho. Retrieved February 5, 2020 .
  2. ^ Theory work 2005 "Monotrace". Retrieved February 5, 2020 . , P. 9.
  3. Jan Anderle ( Memento of December 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), pp. 20–21.