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Peace
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WHO: |
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Colonel Claus
Schenk Earl of Stauffenberg |
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Chronology of the 20. July 1944 in Berlin |
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Carl Clemens Bücker - The Bücker aircraft construction GmbH |
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1895
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Born on the 11.Februar 1895 in
Ehrenbreitstein, present Koblenz. Son of
the military doctor Dr. med. Georg Bücker. |
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1907
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School attendance in Münster, then in Koblenz till 1912 (Kaiserin-Augusta-
grammar school). |
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1912 |
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Since the 01. April 1912 cadet of the
imperial navy
in Kiel. |
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1914 |
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On duty as cadet on the S. M. S. „Emperor Karl the great”. |
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1915 |
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05. March: start of the training as pilot in List on the isle
Sylt. On the 22. March promoted to second lieutenant. After
the training deployment on Sylt and Helgoland, Zeebrügge and
Ostende, Borkum and Sylt once more. On the 25. December 1917
promotion to lieutenant. |
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1918 |
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Test pilot for new plane types in the sea-flight test command
Warnemünde. Here he goes through the end of war. |
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1920 |
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C. C. Bücker goes to Sweden and applies for the Swedish navy. |
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1921 |
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18. March 1921: he becomes Swedish citizen and then navy pilot
in Stockholm. |
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1921 |
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10. September 1921: foundation of the Svenska Aero AB in
Stockholm-Lidingö with C.C. Bücker as director. From 1922 to
1928 licence construction of Heinkel- planes. 1927 start of
own
constructions
of land- and seaplanes (biplanes). |
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1932 |
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Sale of the factory. Decoration with the
royal sword-knight-medal
for merits for the Swedish aircraft
industry respectively the air force. |
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1933 |
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03. October 1933: foundation of the
Bücker aircraft construction GmbH
in Berlin-Johannisthal for
the production of school- and sporting planes. |
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1934 |
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27. April 1934: first flight of
the Bü 131 „Jungmann”
(two-seated biplane) in
Johannisthal. 1935 follows the first flight of the
one-seated biplane Bü 133 „Jungmeister”. |
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1935 |
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Move of the Bücker aircraft construction GmbH to the
new built factory
in Rangsdorf. Bulk production of both
bigplanes. |
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1936 |
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With the Bü 134 comes a
high-wing monoplane
into being, but it is not produced in
series. North of the street „Am Tannenforst” there were
erected
18 detached houses
for Bücker-employees. In the south
(today Walther-Rathenau-Straße) there were erected a villa,
three two-storied houses with 12 flats and 37 flats in
terraced houses for Bücker-employees until 1939. |
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1937 |
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As the first low-wing monoplane comes the
Bü 180 "Student
into being. Start of a licence production of the school- and
sporting planes Focke-Wulf FW 44 „Stieglitz” for two years. |
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1938 |
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First flight of the
one-seated low-wing monoplane Bü 182 "Kornett". Bücker and his
wife Hermine (marriage in March 1933 in Stockholm) get the
German nationality. |
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1939 |
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First flight of the
two-seated low-wing monoplane Bü 181 "Bestmann", which is
built in series until 1945 in Rangsdorf. On the 21. May 1939
the hangar burns, then it is new built with a Tower. |
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1939 |
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After the beginning of the war the factory gets additional
instructions for the armament: transport glider DFS 230, parts
of the bomb Henschel 293, wings of the Ju 87, parts of the Fw
190 and snowmobiles. Until 1943 the staffs grow up to over
1600 employees, French prisoner of war and hard labourer from
the GUS („Eastern labourer”) among them. |
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1945 |
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On the 20. April 1945 the factory stops working. Bücker and
other leading employees run away from the Soviet army to west
(Hamburg). |
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1947 |
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C.C. Bücker and his wife get the Swedish nationality once more.
His efforts for a new plane construction in Western Germany go
wrong. |
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1965 |
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Hermine Bücker dies. |
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1976 |
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On the 03. March 1976
Carl Clemens Bücker
dies, to the last he lived in Mölln. He is buried in his home
town Koblenz. |
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