Österreichischer Aero-Club
This may be a duplicate, I think; see similar-named organizations.
Beginning in 1910, the Oesterreichischer Aero Club aka Österreichischer Aero Club or Austrian Aero Club is the successor in name to the Wiener Aëro-Klub, founded in August 1901. It was apparently redesignated as the Kaiserlich-Königlich Oesterreichischer Aëro-Club or the Imperial and Royal Austrian Aero Club, sometime between October 1911 and June 1912. In 1910 or 1911, it formed with other aero clubs in Austria the Oesterreichischer Luftschiffer Verband (OeLV) or Austrian Aeronaut Federation, of which it was the president. The Oesterreichischer Aero Club began to represent Austria in the Federation Aeronautique International (FAI) in 1910. In Paris on 19 May 1919 at the first meeting of the FAI since 1913, it was resolved that Germany, Austria, and Hungary should be excluded from the FAI as long as they were not admitted to the League of Nations.
As the Wiener Aero Club and then as the Oesterreichischer Aero Club and its successor, published yearbook from 1902-1931 and published or co-published monthly journal, Wiener Luftschiffer-Zeitung,1902-1914. It also published Mitteilungen (Releases) des K.k. Oesterreichischen Aëro-Clubs, 1914-1922 and 1927-1935, which included articles on aeronautics and information about local flying clubs as well of the Öesterreichische Aëronautische Kommission and the Öesterreichischer Luftschiffer-Verband. The Club was one of the three Austrian club names associated with Flugzeug und Yacht from 1923-1926. Circa 1910, the club enjoyed the patronage of the Archduke Franz-Ferdinand, its high protector, and Prince Max de Furstenberg, its honorary president. Officers, 1910, included Victor Silberer, president, and Baron Konstantin (or Constantin) Economo, Capitaine Franz Hinterstoisser (or Kinterstoisser), and Alfred Strasser, vice presidents. Baron Konstantin had succeeded Silberer as president by the end of 1911.
Affiliated with FAI in 1910 and OeLV circa 1911.
Sources
ACA annuals (1907, 1909-1917, 1919); 1910-1911 Jane's All the World's Aircraft 16 (Nov. 1910); Aéro-Manuel 1911 344 and 495 (1 Oct. 1910); FAI Conference Statutaire Proces-Verbaux (1910, 1912); FAI Conference Extraordinaire Proces-Verbaux, 19-21 May 1919; 1911-1912 Annuario dell' Aeronautica 408 (Sept. 1911); 1913 Aviation Pocket-Book 158 (Jan. 1913); 1918 Aviation-PB 273; 9 Aerial Age Weekly 740 (1919); www.aeroclub.at; LOC OPAC
- WorldCat.org and WorldCat-OCLC; 1921 Brockett
| Organization names | Austrian Aero Club : Oesterreichischer Aero Club; apparently redesignated Imperial and Royal Austrian Aero Club : Kaiserlich-Koniglich Oesterreichischer Aero-Club or K.k. Oesterreichischer Aero-Club, ca. 1912. |
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| Country | Austria-Hungary |
| City | Vienna, Austria |
| Affiliated with | FAI, OeLV |
| Scope | National |
| Started aero | 1901 (predecessor in-name) |
| Ended aero | Still exists under 1910 name |
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- Address: 1 Annahof, Vienna (at least 1910-1911); 3 Tuchlauben, Vienna I (1911-at least 1918)
|Phone=393 (at least 1910); 23-843 (at least 1911); }}
