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Hanna Reitsch
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Key facts
- Born
- 29 March 1912 ( 1912-03-29 ) , Hirschberg , Silesia , Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire , (Now Jelenia Góra, Poland )
- Died
- 24 August 1979 (1979-08-24) (aged 67), Frankfurt am Main , Hesse , West Germany
- Partner
- She never married or had a long-term relationship
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Nazi Germany
- Place of birth
- Jelenia Góra
- Place of death
- Frankfurt
- Occupation
- pilot in command
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- Nuremberg Medical Trial
- Conflict
- World War II
- Military branch
- Luftwaffe
- Military rank
- captain
- Image
- Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B02092, Hanna Reitsch.jpg
- Residence
- Oberursel (Taunus)
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- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Commons category
- Hanna Reitsch
- date of birth
- 1914-03-29
- date of death
- 1979-08-24
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- Germans
- allegiance
- Nazi Germany
- member of
- German Labor Front
- name in native language
- Hanna Reitsch
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Encyclopedic overview
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler before his suicide in the Führerbunker in April 1945. Following her capture, she provided information about her departure from Berlin and denied that she might have helped Hitler escape.
During the 1930s, Reitsch set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight. In the 1960s, she was sponsored by the West German foreign office as a technical adviser in Ghana and elsewhere. She also founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hanna Reitsch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.