Hermann W. L. Moedebeck

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Moedebeck in 1898 L'Aérophile.

Hermann W. L. Moedebeck (b. 1857) was co-founder of the Prussian Aeronautical Department[1] and the author of the Pocket-Book of Aeronautics, 1907.

Moedebeck was an important backer of Ferdinand von Zeppelin and the development of zeppelins for the German military.[1]

He set up the monthly publication Illustrierten Aeronautischen Mitteilungen in 1897 and thereafter had some correspondence with Octave Chanute.[2] Chanute encouraged the translation of Moedebeck's 1904 Taschenbuch, which became the Pocket Book of Aeronautics (including a new chapter from Chanute on "Artificial Flight").[3]

He was a member of the Berlin Association for Aerial Navigation and served as an important liason between civilian aerophiles, including balloonists, and military aeronautics.[4]

There is said to be a Moedebeck archive at the Verkehrsmuseum in Dresden.


Publications by or about Hermann Moedebeck or Hermann W. L. Moedebeck

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Hermann Moedebeck (or Hermann W. L. Moedebeck) participated in these events:

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Michael Belafi, The Zeppelin; translated by Cordula Werschkun; Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books, 2015; ISBN 978-1-47382-785-1.
  2. Short, 2011, p. 239.
  3. Short, 2011, p. 269.
  4. Wilfrid de Fonvielle, "Portraits d'aéronautes contemporains", L'Aérophile, Vol. 6, No. 1–3, January-February-March 1898, p. 2.

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