Simon Brunnhuber

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Simon Brunnhuber (1910)
Simon Brunnhuber (right) in 1910 at the Döberitz airfield during the training of the first German military pilots. The trainer aircraft is a Farman III .

Simon Brunnhuber (born May 30, 1884 in Mering ; † February 6, 1936 in Berlin-Johannisthal ) was a German chauffeur , engineer , flight instructor and aviation pioneer . In 1910 he was the first flight instructor at the Döberitz Aviation School .

Life

Simon Brunnhuber on December 7, 1910 in Berlin-Johannisthal during a record flight with four passengers.

Brunnhuber was a flight enthusiast and works as a chauffeur for Walther Huth , who pursued concrete start-up ideas with regard to aviation in order to become an aircraft supplier for the German military administration . As part of these ideas, Brunnhuber was trained as a pilot in 1909 at Huth's expense in France by Hubert Latham on an Antoinette VII and under the pseudonym Dr. Brück on loan as a flight instructor to the Döberitz Aviation School of the military administration. During this time he was officially employed as a works pilot for the Albatros Flugzeugwerke , and in this role he also took part in a number of flight events on Antoinette and Farman planes .

According to Flugsport Nos. 14 and 15 , he started his activity in Döberitz from July 8, 1910 at the latest: “The military aircraft, which was operated by Dr. Brück is controlled, carried out a flight 2.8 km in length on July 8th and a continuous flight of 1 hour on July 9th. ” And in No. 15 it is reported: “ On July 28th at half past seven, Brunnhuber took off with Captain de le Roi as a passenger on board in the presence of the Crown Prince and Lieutenant Huth for an overland flight. … “ Brunnhuber only acquired his official German flight license ( flight license No. 20 ) for two-deckers (Farman) on August 6, 1910 in Döberitz.

In total, Brunnhuber trained over 20 military pilots before he was permanently employed by the military administration as chief engineer for expansion and acceptance.

On December 7, 1910, Brunnhuber set a "new German passenger record" with "four people load" with an Albatros Farman with 37 kW (50 PS) Gnome engine on a flight at a height of 20 meters above the Johannisthal airfield . As a flight instructor he trained Benno König , the winner of the first flight in Germany (1911), among others .

Trivia

The “winged” word “A barn door can also fly if the engine is only good” is attributed to Simon Brunnhuber.

swell

  • Kai Biermann , Erhard Cielewicz: Döberitz airfield. Birthplace of military aviation in Germany . Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-86153-371-5 .
  • Aviation 1910, 2nd year
  • Schmitt, Günter: When the vintage cars flew - The history of the Johannisthal airfield . Transpress, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-344-00129-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b List of pilots 1909–1914 on www.johflug.de
  2. ↑ a b Schmitt: When the oldtimers flew , p. 159 ff.
  3. ↑ a b Biermann, Cielewicz: Flugplatz Döberitz , p. 26
  4. ↑ a b Simon Brunnhuber: The co-founder ...
  5. ↑ Flugsport , Volume II, No. 14, July 20, 1910, p. 450
  6. ↑ Flugsport , Volume II, No. 15, August 3, 1910, p. 485
  7. ↑ F. Rasch (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Aviation Association 1913 . Berlin 1913, DNB  012953865 , 8th guide list, c) flight guide, p. 111 .
  8. ↑ bz-berlin of June 12, 2011
  9. ↑ Schmitt: When the classic cars flew , p. 40
personal data
SURNAME Brunnhuber, Simon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH May 30, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Mering
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1936
Place of death Berlin-Johannisthal