Hans Bertram

Hans Bertram (actually Hans -Karl Bertram, born February 26, 1906 in Remscheid, † January 8, 1993 in Munich) was a German pilot, aerial publisher, writer, operator, film director, screenwriter and production manager.

Life

After graduation in 1926 filed spent Hans Bertram, son of an innkeeper from the North Road in Remscheid, half -year apprenticeship in shipbuilding at the Hamburg company Blohm & Voss and Bäumer. At the same time visited the flight school and earned a ticket A. Also during the following studies at the Technical University of Munich, he took another flight instruction and graduated from this with the art flight testing and the B- form for land and water.

From 1928 to 1934 Hans Bertram worked as a consultant and organizer of the Navy Air Force of Chinese President Chiang Kai- shek. During this time he undertook - in part, together with the flight engineer Adolf Klaus Mann, partly alone - to record experimental purposes a series of extreme flights that occasionally ended in emergency landings and loss of the machine. The planned with Adolf Klaus Mann and not Erich slabs world flight in 1932 with a Junkers W 33 called Atlantis both had to make an emergency landing in North West Australia in the near Wyndham. They thought they had landed on Melville Island, but were by strong east wind brought down about 450 km to the west. More than 50 days they fought in the bush to survive. The case made ​​headlines around the world. Easter 1933 Bertram landed after a 6 ½ -day record flight, which had begun in Surabaya, in Berlin.

As in Germany in the 1930s after the emigration of many artists great need for film professionals emerged who were willing to put their image in the service of National Socialism, Bertram began a career as a writer and film director and also wrote and directed several movies - especially aviator Movies - which are now classified as Nazi propaganda. Bertram was from 1934 a member of the SA. During the Polish campaign of 1939 he was head of the movie special force Bertram and turned 1940 on behalf of Goering the film baptism of fire, which should justify the invasion of Poland. 1942 Bertram was expelled from the Reich Chamber of Culture.

Bertram married actress Gisela Uhlen, with whom he first worked together in the production of " Symphony of Life" (1942 ). They were divorced in the early 1950s again after Gisela Uhlen Wolfgang Kieling had met. Born in 1945 their daughter Barbara Bertram was later also an actress.

In 1954, Hans Bertram, the company " Bayerischer air service Hans Bertram ," the regional air transport from farm 1972 - later of Bayreuth - opened to Frankfurt. The line was later taken over by DLH 's subsidiary DLT. From the air service in 1954 was also a Luftbildverlag out, the owner Hans Bertram remained until his death. The Luftbildverlag Hans Bertram GmbH is established since January 2005 on the Memmingen airport.

Bertram was buried in the Munich Forest Cemetery. The city of Remscheid named a walk on the Hohen Hagen near the former airfield after him.

Books by Hans Bertram

  • Flight to Hell. My Australian adventure. Frankfurt, Berlin (1933 - Ullsteinhaus ) 1995, ISBN 3-548-23833-5
  • Flight to Hell. Report of the " Bertram Atlantis Expedition " 1933 Dreimasken Verlag Berlin
  • Call of the wide world 1937 Dreimasken Verlag Berlin
  • Flight to the stars 1954 Publisher Kurt Desch Munich • Vienna • Basel 1954. Revised it appeared in 1980 under the title " Gods Wind ", Universitas Verlag, Munich 1980.
  • Wind gods. Pioneers of aviation. Frankfurt, Berlin (1980 - Universitas ) 1992, ISBN 3-548-22687-6

Filmography

  • Women for Golden Hill ( 1938) - screenplay
  • Baptism of fire. The film from the use of our air force in the Polish campaign (1939/1940) - Director, Screenplay
  • The fox of Glenarvon (1939/1940) - screenplay
  • D III 88 (1939 ) - Directed by Wolf Neumeister - (directed by Herbert Maisch )
  • Battle Squadron Lützow (1940/1941) - Director, line producer, screenwriter
  • Symphony of Life ( 1942) - Director, line producer, screenwriter - with Gisela Uhlen
  • The Enchanted Sound (1948-1950, short - documentary ) - Director
  • A Very Long Engagement (1949 ) - director, screenplay - with Gisela Uhlen
  • Towers of Silence (1952 ) - director, screenplay - with Gisela Uhlen
  • Flight to Hell (1977 ) - Director, Screenplay by Hans Bertram
  • Flight to Hell (Flight into hell ) ( 1985), dt Australian series in 6 parts from the novel by Bertram
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