Karl Mohns
Karl Mohns (born September 18, 1887 in Perleberg , † August 5, 1939 in Potsdam ) was a German pilot .
Life
He learned the trade of a commercial clerk and got a job in Berlin. There he became enthusiastic about aviation, gave up his job and enrolled as a flight student with Gustav Witte . In 1911 he was the 188th pilot to obtain a German pilot's license. He then worked at Flugmaschine Wright GmbH as a flight instructor.
In May 1912 he organized the first flight day in his hometown of Perleberg. He made a sightseeing flight there with his Wright biplane, which almost ended in disaster during the bad weather.
In the same month Karl Mohns took 3rd place at the May flight week in Johannisthal near Berlin, endowed with 6710 marks. In the same year he won 2nd place at the Berlin Autumn Flight Week. In a flying competition on September 22nd, 1912 in Stettin , he was the winner with an altitude of 700 m and a flight time of 122 minutes. He transferred eight Wright planes bought by Russia in the spring of 1913 and trained three pilots there by the summer of the same year.
Karl Mohns was able to set a six-hour long-term flight record on October 17, 1913 in Berlin. During this six-hour flight, which took place over Johannisthaler Platz, he witnessed the crash of LZ 18 , which he described in detail the following year in the magazine Der Flieger .
In November 1913 he was appointed to the board of directors of the Association of German Pilots.
Karl Mohns finally moved back to Perleberg, where he invented indicator lights for motorcycles in the 1920s.
On August 5, 1939, Karl Mohns was killed in an accident.
Web links
- Prignitzlexikon - Official biography of Karl Mohns ( Memento from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fliegerrevue : Karl Mohns . No. 11/1989 (441) . Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin, p. 348 (column Who? When? What? ).
- ↑ Günter Schmitt, Werner Schwipps: 20 chapters early aviation. Transpress, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-344-00390-9 , p. 37
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mohns, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German pilot |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 18, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pearl Mountain |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 1939 |
| Place of death | Potsdam |