Werner Kämmerer
Werner Kämmerer (* 1873 in Danzig ; † unknown date, probably in Barranquilla ) was a German aviation pioneer in Colombia .
Life
A civil engineer by profession, he came to Barranquilla, Colombia, on the north coast of South America as a traveling salesman at the beginning of the 20th century . Later he tried to prepare the establishment of an airline company in the Colombian capital Bogotá , which was to be founded with Colombian and German technicians. Kämmerer's proposal was initially unsuccessful with his interlocutors, but found a more favorable environment on his return to Barranquilla .
At the beginning of 1920, after he had co-founded the Sociedad Colombo Alemana de Transportes Aéreos (SCADTA) in Barranquilla on December 5, 1919 , Kämmerer was sent to Germany to buy aircraft and to recruit pilots and other employees. There he managed to get the former pilots Fritz W. Hammer (1891-1938) and Hellmuth von Krohn († 1924) and the aircraft engineer Wilhelm Schnurbusch (1886-1960). Hammer recommended buying Junkers aircraft because their metal constructions seemed better suited to the special conditions of the Colombian climate.
Kämmerer also managed to win the Flugzeugwerke Junkers for a financial loan to SCADTA to enable the acquisition of two Junkers F 13 aircraft . The machines came across the Atlantic in boxes in the summer of 1920 and some of them were shipped through the Panama Canal where they were reassembled.
The two pilots Hammer and von Krohn later won the award for the first landing in Colombia's capital Bogotá in front of a North American. The SCADTA route network expanded over the next few years across Colombia to Ecuador, thus opening up white spots on the map.
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://de.scribd.com/presentation/341391938/AVIANCA
- ↑ http://suenodenubes.com/tag/Hellmut-von-Krohn
- ↑ http://suenodenubes.com/tag/Wilhelm-Schnurbusch
- ↑ http://suenodenubes.com/tag/werner-kammerer/
- ^ Image from the landing in Bogotá . ipernity.com. Accessed May 2, 2017
Web links
- Detailed history of the SCADTA by Bernd Woehlbrandt
- Historia de Avianca (Spanish)
- German aviation pioneers in South America in the time of June 3, 1954
- Volando sobre la ruta de los vapores: los comienzos de Scadta, 1919–1930 (es)
- COLOMBIA AL VUELO . banrepcultural.org. Accessed May 2, 2017 (Spanish)
- German-Air-Transport-in-South America.pdf
- Incredible stories from Colombia, by Rüdiger May
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Chamberlain, Werner |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Werner Kaemmerer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German civil engineer and aviation pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1873 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Danzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century |
| Place of death | uncertain: Barranquilla |