Paul Schwandt

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Paul Schwandt

Paul Heinrich Johann Albano Schwandt (born January 10, 1887 in Ludwigslust , † 1920 between Stolp and Elbing over the Baltic Sea) was one of the first pilots in Mecklenburg .

Life

Paul Schwandt was the son of the Ludwigslust merchant Paul Wilhelm Johann Schwandt and his wife Lisette Henriette Christiane "Betty" née Müller. On May 20, 1911, he acquired the German pilot license No. 85 at the flying school of Hans Grade and won several prizes two weeks after acquiring his pilot's license during a Johannisthal flight week. With the help of his father, he bought his own aircraft with a wingspan of 8.5 meters and a 24 hp engine, thereby opening his own flying school. He had to give up this company due to a lack of funds. In 1911 he opened the Schulzendorf airfield with aerobatics . Until the outbreak of the First World War he earned his living with record flights. During the war, Schwandt worked as a one-flyer and flight instructor . Then he became a training manager and chief pilot at AEG in Nieder Neuendorf , where he trained for the field pilot test . In May 1920, the Deutsche Luft-Reederei opened an airline to West and East Prussia as a connection between Stolp and Elbing , bypassing the Polish corridor . The area above the Baltic Sea was included to circumvent this. Paul Schwandt was shot down on one of these flights.

literature

  • Bruno Lange: The book of German aviation technology. Volume 1 Verlag D. Hoffmann, 1970.
  • Disappeared - Forgotten - Preserved. Monuments and legacy of technological history in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. 1st edition 1997 Verlag Redieck & Schade GmbH, Rostock, pp. 182-183, ISBN 3-929544-35-0
  • Association for the Technical State Museum Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania c / o IHK zu Schwerin (publication by Redieck & Schade)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Birth certificate No. 6/1887, main birth register (No. 120 from 1883 to No. 72 from 1887), Ludwigslust registry office, Ludwigslust city archive
  2. ↑ a b Baptism entry no. 17 from February 16, 1887, copy of the Ludwigsluster church book, 1st Advent 1886–1887, State Archive Schwerin
  3. ↑ http://www.postmaxe.de/geschichten/flugfeld-schulzendorf.html
personal data
SURNAME Schwandt, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schwandt, Paul Heinrich Johann Albano (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviator pilot
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigslust
DATE OF DEATH 1920