Ulf Weiß-Vogtmann

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ulf Weiß-Vogtmann (born January 10, 1900 in Berlin ; † October 27, 1989 in Friedrichsdorf am Taunus ) was a German aviation and balloon sport pioneer. He is considered to be the inventor of the ejection seat for aircraft.

Life

Ulf Weiß-Vogtmann came from the Weiss entrepreneurial family, which is well known in Siegerland and Sauerland . He was the oldest of four children from the marriage of the physician Oskar Weiß (1873–1952) from Hilchenbach and his wife Agnes Vogtmann.

Weiß-Vogtmann was a freedom fighter and had received several awards for his bravery. In 1919 he was involved in the suppression of the Spartacus uprising , the general strike and the armed fighting in Berlin in January 1919 in connection with the November Revolution. As a member of a volunteer corps, he fought together with the Self-Protection Oberschlesien (SSOS) in the storming of St. Annaberg in the uprisings in Upper Silesia . In Courland he fought against the Red Army . At the age of 19 he became the personal adjutant of Pawel Bermondt-Awaloff , the commander of the so-calledWestern Russian Liberation Army in the Russian Civil War .

Like his father, Ulf Weiß-Vogtmann was an avid balloonist. He became known as a balloon diver , for the first time in 1926 at Berlin-Staaken Airport . He later reached a height of 800 m and a width of 30 km, filled with a flammable hydrogen gas.

In 1934 Ulf Weiß-Vogtmann invented a catapult ejector seat from which today's pilots' ejector seats developed. In 1940 the night fighter Heinkel He 219 of the German Air Force was equipped with it as standard, as was the Russian helicopter Kamow Ka-50 in the 1980s .

Julius Mader , journalist and officer at the Ministry for State Security , published an article in 1964 about the (alleged) involvement of Ulf Weiß-Vogtmann in the murder of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg .

He last lived in the so-called "Ahoi Hütte", a forest hut in the Wehbachtal on the Giller am Rothaarsteig , where he was visited by numerous guests such as the poet Hermann Löns , the naval officer Felix Graf von Luckner , the painter Emil Nolde and scientists such as Rudolf Nebel and Wernher von Visited Braun . In 1989 he died in a nursing home in Friedrichsdorf am Taunus and was buried in the family crypt in Hilchenbach.

His nickname was "Ahoi", which stood for "Adolf Hitler without interest".

Ulf Weiß-Vogtmann married Luise Nessenius in Berlin in 1935; The son Ulf Albert Weiß-Vogtmann came from the marriage.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ejection seat turns 70 Happy Birthday, hot chair! In: image . January 13, 2013, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ Former Weiß Clinic. In: Sauerland in South Westphalia. April 12, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  3. ^ A b Hilchenbach: Crypt of the families Weiß and Weiß-Vogtmann. In: Westfalenpost . March 12, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Ahoi, the inventor of the ejection seat. In: Heinz Bensberg. April 12, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Liebknecht murderer discovered again. Terrorist Weiß-Vogtmann is a “constitutional protector” in the Bonn state. In: New Germany . February 23, 1964. Retrieved April 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Weiß-Vogtmann, Ulf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiß-Vogtmann, Ulf Oskar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aviation and balloon sport pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH January 10, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1989
Place of death Friedrichsdorf am Taunus