August von Parseval, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German aviator
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Place of Birth: Frankenthal, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
About August von Parseval
- August von Parseval (5 February 1861, in Frankenthal (Pfalz) – 22 February 1942, in Berlin) was a German airship designer. As a boy, Von Parseval attended the Royal Bavarian Pagenkorps in Munich from 1873 to 1878, where he took the Fähnrichexamen (cadet exams).
- He then joined the Royal Bavarian 3rd Infantry Regiment Prinz Carl von Bayern.
- An autodidact, he busied himself with the problems of aeronautics.
- In the garrison town of Augsburg he came into contact with August Riedinger and also came to know his later partner Rudolf Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld, with whom he developed Drachenballons: balloons used by the military for observation. In 1901 Parseval and Sigsfeld began building a dirigible airship.
- After Sigsfeld's death during a free balloon landing in 1902, the work was interrupted until 1905. By 1905, thanks to improvements in motor design, an appropriate engine was now available.
- His designs were licensed to the British Vickers company. Up to the end of the First World War, 22 Parseval airships (both non-rigid (blimps) and semi-rigid (with keels)) were built.
- In the late twenties and early thirties, four more semi-rigid airships were built in accordance with the "Parseval-Naatz principle". Parseval is sometimes written Parzeval or Parceval, particularly in historical documents. The flights of each 'Parseval', like those of the Zeppelins, excited great interest.
- In Kiel, a tavern closed in 2002 which had been named Zum Parseval upon the first visit of one of these airships in 1912.
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