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Gustav Otto

Gustav Otto (* 12. January 1883 in Cologne; † 28. February 1926 in Munich) were a German aircraft manufacturer and a son of Nicolaus August Otto, the inventor of the Petrol engine.

Table of contents 1 Gustav Otto flight machine works 1.1 Self-developments 2 Sources 2.1 Single checks/notes 2.2 Literature 2.3 Web on the left of 2.4 See also:

Gustav Otto flight machine works

The aviation-inspired Gustav Otto bought 1910 one already Blériot Eindecker and put with No. 34 one of the first German Flugzeugführerscheine off.

Its Building of airplanes petrol Alberti 1909 were developed to Munich upper meadow fields^[1], at that time a drilling area, which Otto was allowed to use in agreement with the Bavarian military authorities as airfield.^[2]

When Alberti the enterprise left 1911 joint founders, the company became in Gustav Otto flight machine works renamed. When establishment that Royally Bavarian flier troop in Schleissheim Otto used its contacts to the military authorities and supplied these with its double-deckers. These remained to 1914 standard airplanes of the young royal-Bavarian flier troops, proved however for the front employment as too weak and therefore for training purposes were used. Its resident of Munich enterprise had to adjust therefore 1915 the aircraft construction.

Gustav Otto based likewise in Berlin Johannisthal those AGO of aircraft plants and the establishment that supported Pfalz aircraft plants in Speyer.

Self-developments

• Petrol Alberti double-decker (reproduction of the farm on double-decker, model 1910)
• Double-decker
• Otto B
• Otto B.I
• Otto C
• Otto C.I
• Otto C.II

Two years after outbreak of the The First World War those went Gustav Otto flight machine works in bankruptcy and the bankrupt's estate became then 1916 with that Rapp of engine works GmbH to Bavarian aircraft plants AG (NLG) fused. From this developed later BMW. Gustav Otto created those in the same year in Oschersleben Corporation Gustav Otto, up to the end of war the airplane parts produced.

Otto started then a new attempt with the building of Motorcycles. But after end of war the using Inflation, health problems and family setbacks brought him into a hopeless situation. 1926 committed Otto at the age of 43 years Suizid.

Sources

Single checks/notes

1. ↑ the today's Olympic park
2. ↑ The upper meadow field was used still until 1939 as airfield, until flight-hive-rubbed into at that time the again opened airport Munich Riem was shifted.

Literature

• Schmitt, G. and Schwipps, W.: Pioneers of early aviation, Gondrom publishing house, blind-laugh 1995, ISBN 3-8112-1189-7
• Kroschel, Günter; Stützer, Helmut: The German military aircraft 1910-1918, Wilhelmshaven 1977
• Nowarra, Heinz: The development of the airplanes 1914-18, Munich 1959
• Pawlas, Karl R.: German airplanes 1914-18, Nuremberg 1976, ISBN 3-88088-209-6.
• Pletschacher, Peter: The royally Bavarian flier troops 1912-1919, Engine book publishing house Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-576-6

Web on the left of

• Detailed Biografie
• Portrait: Gustav petrol pioneer of the Bavarian aircraft industry

See also:

• List of types of aircraft

Person data
NAME	Otto, Gustav
SHORT DESCRIPTION	German aircraft manufacturer
DATE OF BIRTH	12. January 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne
DYING DATE	28. February 1926
DYING PLACE	Munich