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Hanna Reitsch

1912 - 1979

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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, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hanna Reitsch is the 7th most popular pilot (down from 5th in 2019), the 115th most popular biography from Poland (down from 107th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Pilot.

Hanna Reitsch was a German aviator and test pilot who became the first woman to fly a helicopter.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Hanna Reitsch ranks 7 out of 71. Before her are Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Roland Garros, Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen, Chesley Sullenberger, and Sabiha Gökçen. After her are Adolf Galland, Ernst Udet, Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet, Francis Gary Powers, Ivan Kozhedub, and Hermann Graf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Hanna Reitsch ranks 28. Before her are Konrad Emil Bloch, Alois Brunner, Chuck Jones, Ghazi of Iraq, Heinrich Harrer, and B. D. Jatti. After her are Glenn T. Seaborg, Maria Mandl, Roy Sullivan, Sergiu Celibidache, Edward Mills Purcell, and Tibor Sekelj. Among people deceased in 1979, Hanna Reitsch ranks 24. Before her are Hafizullah Amin, Ludvík Svoboda, Robert Burns Woodward, Mustafa Barzani, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Sonia Delaunay. After her are Agostinho Neto, Sid Vicious, Feodor Lynen, Nelson Rockefeller, Bertil Ohlin, and Werner Forssmann.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Hanna Reitsch ranks 115 out of 1,694. Before her are Dziga Vertov (1896), Saint Casimir (1458), Isidor Isaac Rabi (1898), Judah Loew ben Bezalel (1512), Ulrich Beck (1944), and Karl Hanke (1903). After her are Casimir Funk (1884), Władysław Sikorski (1881), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Pola Negri (1897), and Alfred von Tirpitz (1849).

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Among PILOTS In Poland

Among pilots born in Poland, Hanna Reitsch ranks 1. After her are Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), and Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920).

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