Carl Cederström

Swedish aviator (1867–1918)

Marika Stiernstedt

(m. 1900⁠–⁠1906)

Minna Poppius

(m. 1909⁠–⁠1918)

Parent(s)Maria Cecilia Wennerström
Anders Cederström

Friherre baron Carl Gustav Alexander Cederström (5 March 1867 – 29 June 1918) was a pioneering Swedish aviator, known as "the flying Baron".

Biography

He was born on 5 March 1867 to the baron Anders Cederström and the baroness Maria Cecilia Wennerström in Södertälje, Sweden and he was baptized in Stockholm.^[1]

Cederström completed the program at the Blériot flying school in 1910. He became the 74th pilot in the world and the first to receive a certificate in Sweden. The next person in Sweden to qualify was Henrik David Hamilton. Cederström began teaching others to fly himself in 1912, opening a flying school near Linköping.^[2]

Cederström died on 29 June 1918 with Carl Gustaf Krokstedt when their plane crashed in the Gulf of Bothnia.^[3]

References

^ International Genealogical Index and tombstone
^ "Sweden". American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Archived from the original on 2004-10-22. Retrieved 2011-12-29. In 1912, Carl Cederström started a flying school with four military pupils at Malmen, near Linköping, Sweden. The following summer, he left Malmen, and his hangars were taken over by the Swedish army.
^ "Cederström". Archived from the original on 2018-11-30. Retrieved 2011-12-29.