Andreas R. Faehlmann (27 June 1898 – 10 April 1943) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n aviation engineer and yachtsman who competed in the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the IX Olympiad (), was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from 28 July to 12 August 1928 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The city of Amsterdam had previously bid for ...

. Andreas Faehlmann was born in

Vladivostok Vladivostok ( ; , ) is the largest city and the administrative center of Primorsky Krai and the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. It is located around the Zolotoy Rog, Golden Horn Bay on the Sea of Japan, covering an area o ...

, Imperial Russia, as son to Rudolf Faehlmann and Seraphine Sakin. The family returned to Europe in 1900 and settled eventually in Reval, Estonia, his father’s home town, in 1905. Domschule 1912-1915, Garde Marin St Petersburg 1915-1918, Vladivostok 1919-1920. 1922-1923 compulsory Estonian military service. Married Alice Indermitte in 1923 and emigrated to Germany. He began to study aircraft engineering in Frankenhausen, finished the three-year course in two years and was employed by Arado Flugzeugwerke. In 1933 he joined the Focke-Wulf group as assistant to Kurt Tank as head of their design offic

He was, before the war, primarily involved in the design of large passenger aircraft, as the FW 200 for Lufthansa, flying intercontinentally Berlin-New York. During the war he was responsible for the design of FW ”Stoesser”, FW ”Weihe”, the heavy fighter FW 187, the reconnaissance aircraft FW 189 and the fighter FW 190. He was, according to his brother Georg Faehlmann, at som time working at Peenemünde (V-1?). A visit to Peenemünde confirms that the Luftwaffe also had a branch for gliders there. In the 1928 Olympic Games, in Amsterdam, he was a crew member of the Estonian yacht ''Tutti V,'' which won the bronze medal in the 6 metre class. His older brother

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was also a crew member. Andreas Faehlmann died in Bremen April 10, 1943. His great granduncle was the distinguished Estonian philologist and physician

Friedrich Robert Faehlmann Friedrich Robert Faehlmann (Fählmann) (31 December 1798 in Ao Manor, Kreis Jerwen – 22 April 1850 in Tartu) was an Estonian writer, medical doctor and philologist active in Livonia, Russian Empire. He was a co-founder of the Learned Estonia ...

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* * * * 1898 births 1943 deaths Estonian male sailors (sport) Olympic sailors for Estonia Olympic bronze medalists for Estonia Olympic medalists in sailing Sailors at the 1928 Summer Olympics – 6 Metre Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Vladivostok {{Estonia-Olympic-medalist-stub