Paul Engelhard

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Paul Engelhard on Lake St. Moritz

Paul Emil Engelhard (also Paul Engelhardt ; born July 27, 1868 in Münster , † September 29, 1911 in Berlin-Johannisthal ) was a German aviation pioneer .

Life

Paul Engelhard in flight, Johannisthal near Berlin, August 12, 1910

His parents were the Prussian major general Emil Engelhard (1829–1885) and his wife Amalie, née Keller (1842–1914).

Paul Engelhard graduated from high school in 1886, decided to pursue a career as a naval officer in the Imperial Navy and rose to become a lieutenant captain . When he left active service in 1904, he was promoted to corvette captain. He then worked in Bremen as an inspector for the German School Boat Association.

By agreement with the Motor Airship Study Society , he and Robert Thelen were among the first Orville Wrights flight students on Bornstedter Feld . On March 15, 1910 he acquired the pilot's license No. 3 of the German Airship Association and became chief pilot of the Wright Society at the Johannisthal airfield .

The German Baron Auff'm Ordt had already attempted flights in St. Moritz at the beginning of 1909, but failed in the thin mountain air. From mid-February to the end of March 1910, Thelen and Engelhard, accompanied by Victor de Beauclair (1874–1929), were supposed to set up a flight school in St. Moritz with two flyers . On March 10, 1910, Engelhard made three laps around Lake St. Moritz . His student pilot Dr. Amsin had a fatal accident with the second flyer in May.

On May 14, 1910, Engelhard fell during a competition in Johannisthal together with Thelen, Emile Jeannin and the Dane Knud Thorup (1886–1942) and was the only one seriously injured. On September 29, 1911, he crashed again during a training flight with a biplane over the Johannisthal airfield and suffered fatal injuries. His flight student Gerhard Sedlmayr was only slightly injured. Engelhard was buried in the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen , grave location Z 281. In 1915 Engelhardstrasse in Johannisthal was named after him.

literature

  • Kauther, Wirtz: Korvettenkapitän a. D. Paul Emil Engelhard, flight license No. 3. Issue 28 from the series of documents on the Berlin-Johannisthal airfield 1909–1914 (2012).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Flight. August 27, 1910, accessed on January 15, 2013 (front page of the magazine): “A Study at Johannisthal - Capt. Engelhardt, on his Wright biplane, flying at the Johannisthal Aerodrome. "
  2. ↑ a b Engelhardstrasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
  3. ↑ Paul Engelhardt Aviator, Contact !: The Story of the Early Aviators by Henry Serrano Villard, Dover Publications, Inc. Mineola, New York in the Google Book Search
  4. ↑ a b earlyaviators.com
  5. ↑ swiss.com (PDF; 1.3 MB)
  6. ↑ Paul Engelhardt (1868–1911), early German aviator, In: gracesguide.co.uk (English)
  7. ↑ Three rounds over Lake St. Moritz, NZZ March 10, 2010, In: nzz.ch
  8. ↑ The St. Moritz Design Gallery, Aviation Pioneers in the Engadin - St. Moritz 2010, 24 pp.
  9. ↑ Gerhard-Sedlmayr-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )
personal data
SURNAME Engelhard, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Engelhardt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster
DATE OF DEATH September 29, 1911
Place of death Berlin-Johannisthal