The son of a sea captain, Friedrich
was a civilian flying instructor in 1913. In
August 1914, he was called up and became a
naval aviator, flying seaplanes on missions
over the North Sea and Britain. After the war
he flew for Dornier, and flew the largest seaplane
at the time, a Dornier Do.X on its maiden Atlantic
flight to New York on 1930. During World War
Two he was the officer commanding occupied
Holland, until the end of the war. Christiansen
died in 1972 at the age of 93. |
