Paul Georg Ehrhardt
Paul Georg Ehrhardt (pseudonyms: Janus ; Paul der Scherschant ) (born January 21, 1889 in Saarbrücken , † November 28, 1961 in Munich ) was a German engineer, test pilot and author of hunting and aviation literature.
Paul Georg Ehrhardt made his first flight at the flight meeting in Reims in 1909 as a passenger of Orville Wright , whom he paid 500 gold francs for a flight of two and a half minutes. On July 22nd, 1913, he acquired license number 466 on an Etrich pigeon at Johannisthal Airport and became a professional pilot. On October 10, 1913, he made a seven-hour flight over Lake Constance in a water biplane. In the First World War he served as a test pilot, when he also tested a wing profile developed by Albert Einstein. At times (1916/17) he worked for the Kondor aircraft factory in Rotthausen (former Essen district, now in Gelsenkirchen) under chief designer Walter Rethel . In 1917 he became head of the development department of the airline company (LVG) .
He later lived in Frankfurt am Main .
Publications
- The Aviator Robinson ; (Preface by Wolf Hirth )
- A hunter and a roebuck Hunting experience in the green area
- Transocean MI
- O transoccano M. 1
- The golden book of boys
- Rayon of the miracle of its becoming
- Woof, the boar, the forest ghost
- This is how a car is made, Frankfurt 1930
- The final power. A utopia from our time ; Novel in four books, with drawings by Heinrich Kley . Drei Masken Verlag, Munich 1921.
- Tatra 77 ; Kopřivnice (Moravia), Tatra Works, 1935
- Gebrüder Thiel G. mb H., Ruhla i. Thür., 75 years ; 1937
- Uniforms churning out
- with Paul Wolff , Alfred Tritschler : work ; 1937
- 50 years of technical work ; Zittau, phenomenon works Gustav Hiller AG , 1938
- Palmström as an aviator. Using Christian Morgenstern's Galgenliedern and Palmström poems ; Hauserpresse Hans Schäfer, 1942; newly illustrated by Wolfgang Götze
literature
- Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 140.
- Peter Supf, Georg Brütting : The book of German flight history: pre-war, war, post-war until 1932; P. 43.
Web links
- Literature by and about Paul Georg Ehrhardt in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter De Gruyter Incorporated: Band Dürrenmatt-Ernestus ; P. 1949
- ↑ Yuri Balashov, Vladimir Pavlovich Vizgin: Einstein Studies in Russia , p 298
- ↑ http://johflug.de/pdf/Pioniere%201910-1914_Johflug_secure.pdf
- ↑ On A. Einstein's cat hump profile (article in the archive of the Otto Lilienthal Museum (accessed 9/2016))
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ehrhardt, Paul Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Janus; Paul the Scherschant |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer, test pilot and author of hunting and aviation literature |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 21, 1889 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saarbrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1961 |
| Place of death | Munich |