Hermann Dorner

Hermann Dorner ( born May 27, 1882 in Wittenberg; † 6 February 1963 in Hanover) was one of the first German aircraft engine designers.

Life

He studied shipbuilding in Berlin and in 1909 qualified engineer. In the summer of 1910, he acquired the pilot license No. 18 of the German pilot's association.

In 1907 he had begun to develop a slider on whose nostrils was the engine could be mounted. In September 1909 he took part in the first International flight week in Johannistal the only German. He had volunteered with his self-built monoplane to the competition and presented for the first time a German engine flying machine at a big event before. But he could only show a few short jumps with his monoplane. On June 11, 1910, he fought his way to the third Lanz price of the skies and in August he won another award at the Airshow in locust valley.

With the money from the prices he opened in 1910 his aircraft Dorner GmbH. After 1912 he was with his financial opportunities but at the end, he went as a flight instructor at the aviation school Adlershof. In 1913, he was Technical Director of the recently founded German Experimental Institute for Aviation ( DVL ).

Mid- 1914, he developed at the German aircraft factories with Heinrich Oelerich the DFW BI and B. II It was the end of 1915 chief designer of the giant aircraft department of the German aircraft factories ( DFW) in Leipzig- Lindenthal, from 1916 chief engineer for the aircraft engine development in the Hanover wagon factory, department of aircraft, in Hannover- Linden ( Hawa ), where he created the Hannover CL- types.

He was professionally connected with Hans Grade.

After the First World War, he worked on an air-cooled diesel engine and founded in 1923 Dorner oil Motoren AG ( DÖMAG ) for the production of small cars with 10 - horsepower diesel engines, but failed because of inflation. The diesel engine verified Kurt Neumann 1927. Dorner then worked in the motor industry, including in Detroit.

In 1954, the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class, he was awarded.

Publications

  • Aircraft engines. 1912, with Walther Isendahl
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