Gunther Plüschow

Gunther Plüschow

Gunther Plüschow was a German aviator, aerial explorer, and author from Munich, Bavaria. His feats include the only escape by a German prisoner of war in either world war from Britain back to Germany; he was the first man to explore and film Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia from the air. He died after his second aerial expedition to Patagonia in 1931 in a plane crash. As an aviator and explorer, he is honoured as a hero by the Argentine Air Force to this day.