Jochen Werner (aviation historian)

Jochen Werner (born September 21, 1938 in Langensalza ; died January 5, 2013 in Radebeul ) was a German aviation historian. It is thanks to him that numerous documents and testimonials from aircraft construction in the GDR have been preserved .

Life

Hull No. 11 of the 152 at Dresden Airport secured by Jochen Werner

Werner passed his Abitur in 1957 and then completed an apprenticeship as a lathe operator . After graduation, he did his three and a half years of military service in the Air Force of the National People's Army . Werner graduated from 1964 with a degree in engineering and economics in the field of high-frequency technology at the Technical University of Dresden . After graduating , he started working as a technologist in the Dresden measurement electronics company "Otto Schön" . In this position he worked from 1978 at VEB Flugzeugwerft Dresden in the field of aircraft electrical equipment. From 1984 he worked part-time on the history of aircraft construction in the GDR and published on this, especially after the fall of the Wall . From 1988 to 1992 he worked as an archivist at the Dresden aircraft yard and then as custodian for aviation at the Dresden Transport Museum until his retirement in 2002 . In these functions, he secured valuable documents and evidence of aircraft construction in the GDR. These include the last existing fuselage of the first German jet-powered passenger aircraft 152 , which is currently kept at Dresden Airport , and the 1:10 model of the 152 manufactured for the Leipzig trade fair and exhibited today at Halle-Leipzig Airport . The holdings secured by Werner include documents from the Period of deployment of German aircraft construction specialists in the Soviet Union from 1946 to 1954.

Jochen Werner and Jürgen Michels published the most extensive work on the history of aviation in the GDR to date with Luftfahrt Ost 1945–1990 and was the author of several chapters of this work. In addition, he was the author of numerous other publications and gave lectures on his subject across Germany.

Publications (selection)

• together with Jürgen Michels: Die Deutsche Luftfahrt. Volume 22: Aviation East 1945–1990. Bernard & Graefe, 1994, ISBN 3-7637-6109-8 .
• together with Lothar Bremer: Tragedy 152: Development and collapse of the aviation industry in the GDR. Sax-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86729-074-6 .

Web links

• Obituary for Jochen Werner on the website of the Society for the Preservation of Sites of German Aviation History (GBSL)