Foreword: * 24.04.1904 † 1996 Wilhelm Sachsenberg's father was co-owner of the Sachsenberg shipyard in Roßlau. From 1920-1925 he was a Sachsenberg volunteer with Junkers, 1926/27 he received his aeronautical training with Raab-Katzenstein. 1928-1929 pilot and organizer of flight days at RAKA-Flug in Kassel; 1929 entry into the service of the German Aviation Association. Since 1931 he was managing director of the Südwestdeutsche Sportfliegervereinigung. 1934-1935 Speaker for powered flight of the Landesgruppe Westfalen. 1934-39 Responsible manager and organizer of the international flight competitions of the 1936 Olympics, after 1950 he was still active in various air sports organizations. The collection contains documents of his aviation activities (badges, orders, memoirs, photos), e.g. at Raab-Katzenstein from the time before 1945 and his collection of material on aviation after 1950. The estate was handed over to the archive in 1995. It has a scope of 79 units of distortion with a duration of 1910-1992
Foreword: * 25. January 1897 in Brüx, Bohemia † 24. December 1982 in Freiburg im Breisgau After completing a civic school, the training as a technician took place on the Königshöhe in Teplitz. During the First World War he took part in the battle of Skagerrak as a war volunteer in the Kriegsmarine on the cruiser Lützow. At the beginning of 1917 he was transferred to the II. seapilot department. There a practical training took place at the Wilhelmshaven seafaring station on a 3-leg Friedrichshafen biplane with a 150 HP petrol engine. At the end Loose was used as a station pilot of the bomb school for observers at the Baltic Sea. In the spring of 1918 he was assigned as a front pilot at the North Sea flight station Helgoland, then to List on Sylt, where he flew naval reconnaissance until the end of the war and received the golden sea pilot badge. After his release from military service, Loose was with the North Sea Volunteer Airmen's Department in support of North Sea mine sweepers. At the end of September 1920, however, the Allies imposed a general ban on flying and destroyed the aircraft. In 1920 he got a job in Dresden in the motor vehicle department of the police headquarters. In his spare time he worked on the construction of the first glider of the Flugtechnische Verein in the workshops of the TH Dresden. This was called "Schweinebauch" and was a single-stemmed biplane. Fritz Loose soon became a flight attendant at this club and took part in the beginnings of gliding in Germany. Loose received the glider pilot's license No. 23, issued on June 17, 1922. So far Loose had only flown planes made of wood and canvas. The landing of the Junker pilot Wilhelm Zimmermann on the Elbe in 1922 with the all-metal Junkers F 13 aircraft inspired him to apply to the Junkers Air Transport Department. In January 1923, Loose received practical and extensive training as a pilot at the Junkers headquarters and passed the flight test to obtain a civil pilot's license in Berlin. His first cross-country flight took him from Dessau to Berlin in a Junkers F 13 with a Mercedes 160 hp six-cylinder engine. He worked as an experimental pilot on behalf of the Reichswehr and transferred Junkers machines to the customers. In Stockholm he received his Swedish aviation license. Further flights led to Izmir and Spain. He participated in wound transports for the Spanish Red Cross on the Moroccan front in the war against the Rifkabylen. After the merger (1926) of Junkers-Luftverkehr and Deutsche Luftreederei Aero Lloyd to form Deutsche Luft Hansa, Loose Werksflieger remained with Junkers. Demonstrations, flyovers, approaches and record flights of various types were among his tasks. He also flew as chief pilot of Professor Junkers personally in the F 13 directional aircraft with the registration D-282 (until 1929). On 1 March 1930 Fritz Loose was appointed flight captain of Junkers Flugzeugwerke. From the Aero-Club of Germany he was entrusted with a Junkers A 50 for the inspection flight of the Europa-Rundflug in 1930. The competition management denied him the right to participate in the actual 10,000 kilometre round flight, as he had already flown the route and was thus in an advantageous position. Afterwards Loose made a trip to the USA to participate in the National Air Races in Chicago on an airplane of the Italian Savoia-Marchetti-Werke. In 1931 Loose was employed as a pilot of the Junkers Aircraft Department (Jfa). In this function a Cierva-Autogiro C-19 Mk III gyrocopter approved in England was demonstrated by Fritz Loose on behalf of Deutsche Lufthansa at many flight days and caused a sensation. Altogether he flew this plane for about 30 hours and covered about 4500 km. It was the forerunner of today's helicopters. During the aviation advertising campaign The German Youth of Hajo Folkerts, the son-in-law of Prof. Junkers, he took over the leadership of the 6-seater Junkers F 13 from A. Grundke and carried out 12,000 take-offs and landings on more than 70 provisional airfields with more than 80,000 children and young people until 1933. In 1933 Loose became a training officer and flight instructor at the German Air Sports Association in Dresden. From 1934 to 1938 he built up a mission flight service for the Lutheran Church (ALC) with a converted Junkers F 13 in New Guinea. After his return to Germany in 1939, Fritz Loose was a pilot and flight operations manager at the Junkers plants in Dessau, Bernburg and Leipzig, which had since been nationalised, until 1945. There he flew in about 1000 Junkers Ju 88. Loose spent the time after the war with relatives in the Erzgebirge and fled to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952. In 1955 Fritz Loose came to Bonn-Hangelar and took over the office of an airfield manager, which he held until 1968. He once again acquired the newly introduced private pilot's license. In addition, he was honorary representative of the air surveillance and member of the examination board for powered flight of the regional council in Düsseldorf. With his retirement he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau. The collection contains documents from his entire career (correspondence, photo albums, films) as well as some private documents. The estate was purchased by the family in 1998. It has a scope of 75 units of description with a duration of 1914-1988.
Foreword: * 26. 04.1896 in Frankfurt am Main † 17. 11.1941 in Berlin Ernst Udet was a fighter pilot during the First World War in the Fliegertruppe of the German Army. After Manfred von Richthofen he achieved the highest number of shootings among the German hunting pilots. During the National Socialist era, Udet was responsible for the technical equipment of the Luftwaffe in the Reich Air Ministry and from 1939 held the office of General Aircraft Master of the Wehrmacht, the last rank being that of General Superior. Ernst Udet's parents were the engineer Adolf Udet and his wife Paula, née Krüger. He grew up in Munich and attended the Stielerstraße elementary school there and from 1906 the Theresien-Gymnasium Munich. Udet became enthusiastic about the still young aviation at an early age. In 1909 he became a member of a model aircraft club, in 1910 he attempted gliding flights. In addition, he worked in his father's boiler workshop and in 1913 acquired the one-year certificate. Thanks to his flying skills he was the star at all air shows of his time. Apart from him, nobody could pick up a handkerchief from the ground with the wing of his machine. Udet has also promoted the career of the German record pilot Elly Beinhorn. After his rather average grades at school, he voluntarily joined the military at the beginning of the First World War. After a short phase as a motorcycle detector in the 26th Württemberg Reservation Division on the western front, he financed his pilot training at the flying school of Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke in Munich. In April 1915, he acquired a civil pilot's license, which led to his being transferred to the army air force. From June 1915 he served in the ground company of the Griesheim air replacement department. In a two-seater he flew after the field pilot test until 1916 observation flights over the western front. After several risky flight manoeuvres and a crash he suffered a nervous breakdown. In March 1916 he was transferred to the Artillery Flight Department 206 stationed near Colmar, which was equipped with Fokker E.III fighters. After his third air victory on 24 December 1916, he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class. In 1917 he received the command of the hunting squadron 37 (Jasta 37), which he led until March 1918. In March he was requested by Manfred von Richthofen to lead the Jagdstaffel 11. In April 1918 he was awarded the Pour le Mérite. After Richthofen had fallen, Udet took over the leadership of Jasta 4. In August 1918 he succeeded in shooting down 20 enemy aircraft. He scored his last two air victories a month later. Ernst Udet survived the war as first lieutenant and second most successful German fighter pilot; he was able to record a total of 62 shootings. After the First World War, Udet earned his living with shoplifts. In the summer of 1921, despite the restrictions of the Versailles Peace Treaty, he founded Udet Flugzeugbau GmbH with funds from the American donor William Pohl, which he left in 1925. He then devoted himself increasingly to art and show flights, in which he often performed spectacular flight manoeuvres. 1925 he founded the Udet-Werbeflug GmbH, 1927 the Udet Schleppschrift-GmbH. In 1929 Udet took part as a mountain pilot in the silent movies of the mountain film director Arnold Fanck Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü and in 1930 in Stürme über dem Mont Blanc. From 1930 to 1932, he was also involved in other feature films in Fliehende Schatten, 1932/1933 in SOS Eisberg and 1935 in Wunder des Fliegens. He always played the saviour in need, who frees other people from dramatic situations through his flying skills. Udet was able to attend the demonstration of the Curtiss Hawk II in the United States in the early 1930s and was able to have the Luftwaffe finance the purchase of two aircraft for private use on the condition that they could be thoroughly studied after delivery. He was so impressed by the effectiveness of the concept of the dive bomber that he later postponed all bomber projects that were not suitable for dive bombing. Nazi dictatorship In April 1933 he was appointed vice-flight commander of the German Air Sports Association and on May 1, 1933 Udet, persuaded by Hermann Göring, joined the NSDAP. At the instigation of Göring, Udet joined the newly founded Luftwaffe on 1 June 1935 in the rank of colonel. On September 1, 1935, he became inspector of the fighter and dive fighters. As successor to General Wimmer, he became head of the Technical Office of the Reich Aviation Ministry. Furthermore he organized show flights, among other things in the context of the Olympic Games 1936. On April 1, 1937 Ernst Udet was appointed Major General and on November 1, 1938 he was promoted to Lieutenant General. Udet is considered jointly responsible for the misdirected German air armament during the first years of the war, which suffered above all from its enormous inefficiency and the fact that the political objectives and the actual course of the war were completely contrary. On February 1, 1939, Göring assigned him the new office of General Aircraft Master. In this function Udet was subordinated to the State Secretary of the Reich Aviation Ministry and Inspector General of the Air Force Erhard Milch. This expanded the competence of the Technical Office now headed by Udet, which was now not only responsible for the entire aircraft development and production, but also for procurement, replenishment and supply. If it was already a mistake to let Udet lead this office, this was all the more true now, since Udet had already had trouble filling the post before. From then on he was in charge of 26 departments with 4000 officers, civil servants and engineers, who were responsible for everything, but not for anything themselves.[3] The office of the General Aircraft Master meant a further competence cut for Erhard Milch, who resignedly stated: "In Udet's hands everything becomes dust. Udet, art and air shovel trailer, filmmaker and propaganda figure of the NS state, had excellent flying experience, but no technical or organizational abilities. Although he admitted these weaknesses himself, Göring prevailed and promised him all the necessary personnel assistance for the office. Udet's real task was to persuade the aircraft manufacturers to join forces, create synergies and avoid redundancies in development in order to optimize the air armament. Instead, he became the plaything of the particular interests of Messerschmitt, Heinkel and Junkers, who time and again succeeded in getting him enthusiastic about their projects regardless of the actual benefits and costs, so that Udet did not do his job well enough. On 19 July 1940, after being awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, he was promoted to Colonel General. In the last years of his life Udet consumed more and more excessive amounts of stimulants and intoxicants such as tobacco, alcohol and pervitine. With caustic mockery he drew numerous caricatures of his employers and himself. Among other things, he caricatured himself as an airman chained to his desk in the Reich Aviation Ministry. After the failures in the air battle for England and the ensuing hostilities by Göring and some other NS greats, Udet shot himself in his apartment in Berlin on 17 November 1941. On the front wall of his bed he had previously written the accusation directed at Göring: "Iron man, you have left me". Hitler ordered a state funeral. The suicide was kept secret. NS propaganda informed the public via the press that he had lost his life trying out a new weapon on a serious injury sustained in the process. For propaganda purposes, the newly established air force training and testing ground in the Warthenau district in occupied Poland was named after him Udetfeld.[5] Udet was buried at the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin. Werner Mölders died in a plane crash at Breslau airfield on 22 November 1941 on his way to the State Act. He then also found his final resting place in the Invalidenfriedhof, opposite Udet's grave. Shortly thereafter the Jagdgeschwader 3 was given the traditional name "Udet". Awards Iron Cross (1914) II. and I. Class Prussian Military Pilot Badge Cup of Honor for the winner of the air battle Württemberg Wilhelmskreuz with Swords Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords Hanseatic Cross of the Hanseatic Cities Lübeck and Hamburg Wounded Badge (1918) in Silver Pour le Mérite 9. April 1918 Wehrmacht-Dienstauszeichnung IV. Klasse Brache zum Eisernen Kreuz II. und I. Klasse Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes am 4. Juli 1940 Pilot and Observer Badge in Gold with Diamonds Bulgarian Military Order of Merit, Grand Officer's Cross with Swords Own Publications Neck and Leg Fracture. Funny cartoons, with verses by C. K. Roellinghoff. Traditional publishing house Rolf