Karl Born (cinema operator)

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Karl Born (born December 8, 1910 in Montreux , Switzerland ; † April 1, 2004 in Oldenburg ) was a German sailor , pilot and cinema operator . He was Cape Hornier and built the world's first sea emergency flight service.

Live and act

Karl Born worked on square sailers , freight steamers and passenger ships and received a patent as a navigator on long voyages . He circled Cape Horn four times and received the French medal "Hommage des Capitaines Cap Horniers".

Karl Born completed his pilot training for land and sea, which he completed in 1935. In 1939 he built in Bad Zwischenahn the distress flight director I of the Air Force on, which is considered the world's first of its kind. For this purpose, six Heinkel He 59s were disarmed at Walther-Bachmann-Flugzeugbau and equipped with stretchers and inflatables. The He 59C-2 WL-APIE, which was first used on June 30, 1939, is considered the world's first rescue aircraft.

During the Second World War , Born was the squadron captain of two Wehrmacht emergency squadrons . From October 1944 he was in command of the sea ​​emergency group 81 on the Bug peninsula on Rügen with a supplementary squadron in Kiel-Holtenau . For his rescue missions in the Baltic Sea, he received the "Baltic Sea Rescue Medal 1945" donated by Heinz Schön in 1987 .

After the end of World War II, Karl Born began a career as a cultural organizer and cinema operator in Oldenburg. On August 18, 1946 he opened the "Ziegelhof-Freilichtbühne", on which the pianist Elly Ney , the singer Lilian Harvey and musicians from the Berlin Philharmonic and the Munich Philharmonic performed. In 1949 the "Ziegelhof-Lichtspiele" was created as a hall with 878 seats for theater, music and film screenings. In 1957 he separated part of the hall and built the “Studio Z im Ziegelhof” cinema with 198 seats and a cinemascope screen as a place for good, artistic films (quote from Karl Born). In 1961 Born took over the “Alhambra-Lichtspiele” and renamed it “Our Cinema”. In 1966 the house was closed. In 1969 he took over the "Lindenhof-Lichtspiele" and continued it as the "Capitol im Lindenhof" with 511 seats. In 1977 Karl Born retired from his company. In the same year he was honored with the great city seal of the city of Oldenburg.

Karl Born was honorary chairman of the Gilde Deutscher Filmkunsttheater , which he founded in 1953 in Göttingen with eleven other operators, and in 1972 co-founder of the association “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kino”. In 1981 he was honored with the film ribbon in gold for his contribution to the development of the film industry and he received the honorary award of the German Film Prize .

Karl Born was married to Ilse Born, who was also the manager of several cinemas.

Fonts

  • Rescue between the fronts. Maritime emergency service of the German Air Force 1939–1945. Mittler, Hamburg / Berlin / Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8132-0489-8 . 3rd edition 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0756-0 ( review on seeflieger.de).

literature

  • Siegfried Müller : Karl Born and the founding of the aviation sea rescue. In: Siegfried Müller (Ed.): From Zeppelin to Airbus. Aviation in northwest Germany in the 20th century. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2007, ISBN 978-3-7688-1966-4 , pp. 104-108.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Losch: The history of German sea pilots on seeflieger.de, August 6, 2007 (PDF; 96 kB).
  2. ↑ Sea rescue in World War II on the website of the association “Bavarian Airplane Historians”.
  3. ↑ a b c d Stephan Bents: The cinema development in the Oldenburg / Ostfriesland region between 1945 and 2004. Diploma thesis. Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg , Oldenburg 2004 (PDF; 1 MB).
  4. ↑ filmmaker, Karl Born died on mediabiz.de , April 8th of 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Born, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German seaman, pilot and cinema operator
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreux , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 2004
Place of death Oldenburg