Andreas Faehlmann

Andreas R. Faehlmann (27 June 1898 – 10 April 1943) was an Estonian aviation engineer and yachtsman who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

The family returned to Europe in 1900 and settled eventually in Reval, Estonia, his father’s home town, in 1905.

He began to study aircraft engineering in Frankenhausen, finished the three-year course in two years and was employed by Arado Flugzeugwerke.

[1] 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.

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.