Marie Marvingt

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Marvingt (1912)

Marie Félicie Elisabeth Marvingt (born February 20, 1875 in Aurillac , † December 14, 1963 in Laxou ) was a French pilot , nurse and athlete. She was the second woman to take her flight test in France. She came up with the idea of ​​using airplanes for the rescue and medical care of the wounded and sick.

Life

Marvingt took part in cycling races when he was eleven. In 1900 she was a French shooting master . In 1908 she wanted to take part in the Tour de France . Since she was denied this because of her gender, she drove all the way behind the field. Since only a third of the riders had even made the whole tour, it would have made it to the first third. In 1961, at the age of 86, she was still cycling from Nancy to Paris (281 km) in one day. She was the first woman to climb the highest peaks in the Alps. In 1909 she passed the balloon pilot examination . She was a nurse by profession, and besides flying and shooting, she went skiing, golf, ice skating and mountaineering. She distinguished herself in all of these sports and in 1910 she was the only person ever to receive a medal pour tous les sports (for all sports) from the French Académie des Sports .

On October 26, 1909, she was the first woman to fly over the North Sea to England in a balloon.

In 1910 she became the third woman to get the Aéro Club de France's pilot license. In the same year she turned to the French authorities for the first time with her idea of ​​an "air ambulance". In 1911 she won the Coupe Fémina in Turin and took the opportunity to set the women's world record in long distance flights (40 km).

Since the French army command did not believe in their proposal to take care of the injured and sick from the air, they had a machine built and equipped according to their plans in the Deperdussin aircraft factory in 1912 - but the company went bankrupt before the project was completed.

Contemporary presentation of your idea

In 1914, when the First World War broke out, she volunteered for the French army as a nurse. Again she presented her idea of ​​an air ambulance and fell on deaf ears again. In 1915 she flew bombing raids on Germany as a pilot in the French Air Force.

After the war she worked as a flying war reporter in North Africa. Together with others, she founded the organization Les Amies de l'Aviation Sanitaire (Friends of the Air Medical Service). She gave over 6000 lectures about her idea. In 1929 she organized the first international congress on medical aviation . The organization trained nurses, doctors and pilots for rescue missions from the air.

In 1934, the French government finally accepted their proposal. Marvingt was commissioned to set up a civilian air ambulance service in Morocco . For this work she was later honored by the Moroccan government with the Peace Medal. During her stay in Morocco she made two documentaries.

Marvingt also invented the metal ski.

Marie Marvingt was accepted into the French Legion of Honor in 1934 for her services as a pilot and was awarded a Knight's Cross. In 1949 she received the Officer's Cross of the Legion of Honor.

In 1955, at the age of eighty, she flew in an American military jet fighter. In the same year she learned to fly a helicopter.

Marvingt died in 1963 in a hospital in Laxou at the age of 88 .

literature

  • Rosalie Maggio: Marie Marvingt, Fiancée of Danger. First Female Bomber Pilot, World-Class Athlete and Inventor of the Air Ambulance . McFarland & Company, Jefferson (North Carolina) 2019, ISBN 978-1-4766-7550-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mari Evelyne Combeau, Valérie Boulain: A la recherche des limites. Marie Marvingt (1875-1963), pionnière et recordwoman. Angela Teja, Arnd Krüger et al. (Ed.): Corpo e senso del limite - Sport and a sense of the body's limits . Hanover: NISH 2014, pp. 150–157. ISBN 978-3-932423-38-3
  2. ^ John H. Lienhard: No. 2504. Marie Marvingt. In: The Engines of Our Ingenuity. Retrieved October 26, 2019 .
  3. ↑ dossier on Marie Marvingt in the database of the French Legion of Honor, accessed on May 10, 2020th
  4. ↑ Rosalie Maggio: Marie Marvingt, Fiancée of Danger (see literature), pp. 210–211.
personal data
SURNAME Marvingt, Marie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marvingt, Marie Félicie Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pilot, nurse and athlete; the second woman to take her flight test in France
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Aurillac
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1963
Place of death Laxou