Bäumer Aero GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturing company founded by and named after

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. It is noted for producing the

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sports aircraft.

History

and Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp were successful fighter pilots in

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and founded Bäumer Aero GmbH in

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, on 7 November 1922 for the purpose of the sale of aircraft, accessories for

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s, and

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s. Initially, the company sold aircraft manufactured by

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and Dietrich Flugzeugwerke. Bäumer Aero GmbH produced its first aircraft model, the Red Bird

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, in 1924. In 1925 the company became generally known for its

sports aircraft, which was successful in the 1925 Round Germany Flight. The company manufactured a total of four examples of the successful Sausewind. The Alsterkind and Puck models followed. The company's design and construction team consisted of the young engineers Walter Günter, Walter Mertens, and Werner Meyer-Cassel. Walter Günter's twin brother

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joined in 1926. On 15 July 1927, Paul Bäumer was killed instantly while flying as a freelance

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when the Rohrbach Ro IX fighter he was demonstrating to a

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commission. After he climbed to , the plane entered a spin. He was unable to recover and crashed into the Öresund, off

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. As he was the primary driving force of Bäumer Aero GmbH, all of the company's development and planning work came to a standstill after his death. It took nearly a year before the Sausewind IV was completed in May 1928. Another year elapsed before the new Libelle model was produced. The Libelle was not successful, with both examples crashing. The company was liquidated at the end of 1930.

Products

Aircraft

* Bäumer B I Roter Vogel *

* B III Alsterkind * Bäumer B V Puck

References

{{Reflist, 2 Defunct aircraft manufacturers of Germany