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Peace
messages from Rangsdorf |
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Rangsdorf -
Chronology |
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1935 |
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May: start of the construction of the
land - and water airport
land - and water airport and the Bücker aircraft construction.
October: move of the Bücker aircraft construction GmbH from
Berlin-Johannisthal to Rangsdorf. The airport is used
generally by the factory
generally by the factory and as an air station of the air
force until 1945. |
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1936 |
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30. July: official handing over of the Reich sporting airfield,
the Reich school of motoring flight (RfM) and of the
aero-club-house
on the eve of the Olympic Games in Berlin.
Rangsdorf is the aim of a German and international rally, of
sporting pilots, and also venue of the „International
aerobatics competition of the nations“. |
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1937 |
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20. -27. Juni: Rangsdorf is the
aim of the Germany Flight 1937 and of a rally for sporting
pilots with their own plane. |
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1938 |
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May: Rangsdorf is starting-place and aiming point of the
Germany Flight 1938. On the 25.May there lands 369 planes on
this airfield. Rangsdorf belongs to the aims of the glide
competition since the end of June. On the 02.July German
female sporting pilots start to a reliability test-flight to
Wyk on the isle Föhr. In summer Prof. Focke shows his
helicopter F 61 in Rangsdorf to the „Federation Aeronautique Internationale” (FAI). |
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1939 |
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Again Rangsdorf is starting-place and aiming point of
competitions.
Prominent people of this time, for example Elly Beinhorn,
Heinz Rühmann and Ernst Udet, have stowed their planes in
Rangsdorf. In the summer
the aerobatic unit
of the air force
practices here for an airman-meeting in Brüssel. After the
outbreak of war Rangsdorf becomes temporary
the commercial airport
of Berlin instead of Tempelhof (04.10.39 - 06.03.40). |
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1940 |
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In January for the first time an
Aeroflot-plane
from Moscow lands in Rangsdorf, besides
Lufthansa-planes leave for Moscow. On the present air station
Rangsdorf there are the courier squadron 110 of the supreme
command of the army (OKH), weather planes, transport airplanes,
an air force commando, a special squadron and other units.
Temporary the general staff of the battle pilots is stationed
here since end of the year 1943. 1945 Rangsdorf becomes the
operations airport of battle squadrons with Junkers Ju 87 and
Focke-Wulfs 190. |
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1944 |
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February: formation of the battle squadron (KG 200), to which
is added the special squadron of the major Gartenfeld in
Rangsdorf.
20. July:
colonel Stauffenberg
starts from Rangsdorf to the attempt on Hitler and
lands again in Rangsdorf after it.
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1945 |
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The last German forces leave Rangsdorf on the 21. April. The
village, the airfield and the Bücker Company were taken
without fighting on 22. April by the Soviet army. From the
airfield in Rangsdorf now start the tactical aircrafts of the
Soviet air force, so Iljuschin I12, Jakowlew Jak 3,
Lawotschkin La 5 and La 7. From 1945 until the end of 1946 the
new pilots were trained with Polikarpow Po 2 and Jakowlew Ut
2. |
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1946 |
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The former Bücker Company becomes location of the 825.plane repair factory founded on the 5.August in Rangsdorf. There
were repaired cells and piston engines type M 11 D, later
steel engines and helicopter type Mill Mi 2, Mi 4 and Mi 8 (the
latter since 1994). On the former air station is stationed a
signal corps of the Soviet 16. air force from 1956 since 1994. |
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1994 |
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The repairing unit of the GUS-air force withdraws from the
Bücker Company and the signal corps moves off the airfield.
The historical buildings of the Bücker Company, the
aero-club-house and the airfield were listed after the
withdrawal of the army. Owner of the whole area becomes the
Federal Republic of Germany. The aero-club-house was
rehabilitated as a part of
a private grammar school
(Seeschule), also the
Bücker-buildings in the
Walther-Rathenau-street. The rest of
the area is now property of the country Brandenburg and so far
without use. |
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2000 |
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On the 23.April, organized by the development association Bücker museum,
two Bü 131, new built in Poland, land for the first time since
1945 on the listed historical airfield and many people in
Rangsdorf followed the event with great interest.
The intention of the Polish company „Historical Aircraft
Service”, to produce Bücker-planes again in the listed halls,
fails because of the resistance of the local government. |
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2001 |
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On the 5.March the rehabilitated
former worker flats were official handed over. On the 31.March the Bücker-aviation-museum on the lake of Rangsdorf is
opened. Sponsor is the development association Bücker-museum
e.V.
On the
open day in the Bücker aircraft construction there come more
than 1000 interested visitors. There start and land two
biplanes, among them a Bü 131 „Jungmann”. |
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2004 |
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On the 20.July, the 60.anniversary of the attempt on Hitler, there is unveiled a
memorial on the aero-club-house (Seeschule).
Visit of a
former interpreter of the Bücker Company, Mister Kostinsky, to
the location of the hard labour camp. |
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2005 |
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Once more the development
association Bücker-museum succeeded in organizing an
international sporting pilots meeting on the 20. and 21.
August on the historical airfield in Rangsdorf. The meeting
develops into a funfair with up to 6000 visitors. |
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