Klotzsche Air War School
The Air War School Klotzsche or Air War School 1 is a former Air Force school in the Dresden district of Klotzsche on the street Zur Wetterwarte 10 .
history
Although Germany was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 to maintain an air force, German military pilots were trained under secrecy as early as the Weimar Republic. First, the flight students were trained in light training aircraft at civilian training centers in Germany. In order to give the pilots the opportunity to gain flight experience in combat aircraft, Germany's Reichswehr requested the help of the USSR (see also: Treaty of Rapallo ). A secret training airbase was set up in 1924 near the Russian city of Lipetsk ( Russian Липецк ) and operated until 1933. Officially known as the 4th Aviation Division of the 40th Red Army Squadron, this school used Dutch, Soviet and German aircraft. Around 240 German pilots were trained every year. New aircraft designs developed in Germany were tested there.
On February 26, 1935, Adolf Hitler ordered his aviation minister Hermann Göring to build an air force for Germany despite the existing ban. Germany thus broke the provisions of the Versailles Treaty. These and other breaches of treaty were tolerated by Great Britain and France because they believed that they would reduce the risk of war.
The Klotzsche Air War School was built in the same year according to a design by the architect Ernst Sagebiel together with the architects Walter and Johannes Krüger . The construction management was with Vincenz Rensing.
description
The buildings are kept simple and plastered, with Saxon natural stone being used for the building plinth, Saxon red granite for the terrace and yellow sandstone for the reveals of the main entrance doors.
The central building is a large two-storey lecture hall building, consisting of a central building and two side buildings. This was built on a U-shaped floor plan. The relief "Der Flieger" by Arno Breker was located above the portal of the central building . The side buildings have an accentuated entrance zone. This consists of high pillars, which are clad with brown ceramic tiles and support the "antique-idealizing ... architecture with then modern design elements."
Occupancy
The buildings were occupied by the Luftkriegsschule 1 (LKS 1) during the period of the Third Reich until their dissolution on March 5, 1945, which was called the Dresden Air War School from its foundation on April 16, 1936 to January 15, 1940. The school unit emerged from the Air Force special course set up in January 1935 at the Dresden Army Infantry School .
See also
- Especially for the historical classification and the later use of the building: Dresden Airport .
- To the air force in Dresden and later the aircraft industry: Elbe Flugzeugwerke
literature
- Manfred Zeidler: Former air war school in Klotzsche as a historical place and architectural relic of the history of Dresden during the Nazi era. In: archäologie aktuell , No. 5 (1997).
- Franz Spur: Military use. In: Flughafen Dresden GmbH (Ed.): Airport Dresden. The past and present of Dresden aviation. Dresden 2000.
- Franz Spur: Dresdner Fliegerschmiede 1935–1945. History of the Air War School 1 Dresden in Klotzsche. Working group of Saxon military history, Dresden 2004, ISBN 3-9809520-1-0 .
- Matthias Donath : Architecture in Dresden 1933–1945 . 2nd, revised edition. Redaktions- und Verlagsgesellschaft Elbland mbH, Meißen 2016, p. 122-127 .
Web links
- Private page about the Air War School 1 in Dresden ( Memento from October 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter and Johannes Krüger: The Air War School Dresden. In: Die Baugilde , Volume 21, 1939, No. #, pp. 697–716.
- ↑ Air War School Klotzsche - Architecture of the German Air Force. In: das-neue-dresden.de. Retrieved September 19, 2017 .
- ↑ Data on LKS 1
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '53.6 " N , 13 ° 47' 1.3" E