Paul Senge

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Paul Senge

Heinrich Albert Paul Senge (born April 15, 1890 in Hagenau ; † September 8, 1913 in Elsen, Grevenbroich ) was an aviation pioneer .

Life

Paul Senge grave in the Sankt Georg Friedhof (Hagenau).

Senge was born in the city of Hagenau in 1890 as the son of Franz Senge and his wife Anna Elise Senge, née Gleissberg. Senge grew up in Karlsruhe and trained as a shoemaker in Darmstadt. There he could observe August Euler's attempts to fly . Back in Karlsruhe after completing his training, he tried to build his own flying machine there in 1910. Senge made his first flight attempts at the Karlsruhe parade ground (which later became the airfield on Erzbergerstrasse in the north of Karlsruhe). Before that, he exhibited his “flying machine” in the “Kühler Krug” inn. In autumn 1910 he continued his attempts to fly with a second flying machine. In the summer of 1911 he made his first flight around the parade ground, which he flew around at a low altitude. He then moved his flight attempts to the Forchheim parade ground, where he and his Pforzheim friend Eugen Lamprecht, who had built his own machine in Pforzheim, built a new, shared machine. With this he could reach an altitude of 100 meters and fly a closed figure eight. In September 1911 he crashed his plane in Forchheim; after his recovery he moved to Mannheim.

Paul Senge grave in the Sankt Georg Friedhof (Hagenau).

From spring 1912 he worked as a pilot for the aviation pioneer Hugo Huebner in Mannheim. In May 1912 Paul Senge completed his flying exam here on the monoplane owned by Dr. Hübner and received the pilot's license with the number 214. In the following period he took part in various air shows with several machines designed by Hübner. So he started at the end of June 1912 at a flight day in Pforzheim, where he crashed in a failed emergency landing, but suffered only minor injuries. After Hübner had given up aircraft construction in the winter of 1912/13, Senge then tested the designs of Hans-Martin Pippart and Heinrich Noll in Mannheim in the course of 1913 . Finally, in the summer of 1913, the Aristoplan works (Wanne-Eickel) hired him as a test pilot. On September 8, 1913, he fell as a result of a broken spar while attempting at Gut St. Leonhard near Elsen (Grevenbroich) . Paul Senge fell from the plane about ten meters before the impact. A doctor called in Grevenbroich diagnosed a fracture of the skull and jaw, and Senge had broken several arms and ribs as well as a tear in his lungs, which he died the following day. It was supposedly his first major overland flight , which should take him from Wanne to Viersen . On September 13th he was buried in his native Hagenau.

Honor

Signs of Sengestraße in Karlsruhe

In the north-west of Karlsruhe , near the old airfield, Sengestraße is named after Paul Senge.

literature

  • Renate Liessem-Breinlinger: Article Senge, Paul . in: Badische Biographie NF 4, Stuttgart 1996, pp. 273f.
  • Sebastian Parzer: Paul Senge: Baden's first pilot - The Karlsruhe native acquired his pilot's license 100 years ago , in: Hierzuland 45 (2012), pp. 29–32.
  • Markus M. Wieland: The Mosbach aviation pioneer Hugo Huebner in: Badische Heimat 83 (2003), pp. 100-103.

Web links

Commons : Paul Senge  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth certificate 121/1890 at the registry office in Hagenau
  2. ↑ Biographical information on the pages of the FSV Karlsruhe  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fsv-karlsruhe.de  
  3. ↑ The Gerstelblog: Heinrich Gerstel and the matter with the airplane. In: The Gerstelblog. December 27, 2011, accessed September 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Wiljo Piel: 100 years ago: The plane crashes near Elsen. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher newspaper. September 7, 2013, p. C2.
  5. ↑ Christoph Pütz: When the aviation pioneer crashed. In recent years, planes have crashed or had to make an emergency landing in Grevenbroich several times. In: Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung of January 4, 2011, p. C2 (Grevenbroich).
personal data
SURNAME Senge, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Haguenau
DATE OF DEATH September 8, 1913
Place of death Grevenbroich