Gustav Lilienthal (October 9, 1849 – February 1, 1933) was a German

social reformer Reformism is a type of social movement that aims to bring a social or also a political system closer to the community's ideal. A reform movement is distinguished from more radical social movements such as revolutionary movements which reject t ...

, a pioneer in building and construction technology (

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s), inventor of different

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s (e. g.

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) and involved in the pioneering work of his brother,

Otto Lilienthal Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, therefore making t ...

in aviation.

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Otto-Lilienthal-Museum The Otto Lilienthal Museum in Anklam (Germany) is a museum dedicated to the "glider king" Otto Lilienthal, the flight pioneer, as well as a pioneer in technical, social and cultural projects. Lilienthal made over 2,000 flights in gliders of his ...

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lilienthal, Gustav German aviators 1933 deaths 1849 births German social reformers 19th-century German inventors Otto Lilienthal