Fliegerin hanna reitsch biography
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12th Review- The Sky My Kingdom- Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot- Hanna Reitsch
It was the memorable book ‘They went into the air as angels with homesickness – nostalgia.’ From Jan Jacobs Mulder in which I read for the first time about Hanna Reitsch (see my previous book discussions). Next in another book and thus I had to know more about this woman. Who was Hanna? Hanna was born in 1912 and grew up in Hirschberg in Silesia, lying east of Dresden in the nowadays Poland. From an early age on Hanna dreamed about flying and despite that her parents rather had seen her become a doctor, the blood crept where it couldn’t go.
Hanna, a little thin and just about a bit taller than 1.50m started at a young age with a glider course, where she had to, for starters, fight up against the diminishing glances of elder
Karl Ritter mit del Fliegerin Hanna Reitsch in einem Scheibe-Falken 1968 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
men, boys and flight instructors, who didn’t want to believe that a young girls as Hanna could possible learn how to fly properly. Her first ‘flight’ in a glider that was pulled up with an elastic almost ended fatally through a stirring mistake, through which she had to stay grounded for a couple of days. After that soon everything went differently.
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Hanna Reitsch
German aviator and test pilot
Flugkapitän Hanna Reitsch | |
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Hanna Reitsch in 1941 | |
| Born | 29 March 1912 (1912-03-29) Hirschberg, Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 24 August 1979 (1979-08-25) (aged 67) Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, West Germany |
| Nationality | German, Austrian[1] |
| Known for | Nazi, Aviator, test pilot |
| Partner | Robert Ritter von Greim (1945) |
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot. Along with Melitta von Stauffenberg, she flight-tested many of Germany's new aircraft during World War II and received many honors. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler alive in the Führerbunker in late April 1945.
Reitsch set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight,[2][better source needed] before and after World War II. In the 1960s, she was sponsored by the West German foreign office as a technical adviser in Ghana and elsewhere, and founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah.
Early life and education
[edit]Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia, on 29 March 1912 to an
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