Hanna Kunath

Hanna Kunath (born June 11, 1909 in Bremen ; † September 12, 1994 in Seevetal ) was a German pilot and aviation pioneer .

biography

Hanna Kunath was the daughter of Arno Theodor Kunath , a pedagogue, sports teacher and founder of floor gymnastics for girls and women.

Kunath was Bremen's first female pilot. In 1932 she became the first woman to join the Bremen Aviation Association . Here she received her training as a pilot. In 1934 she obtained her pilot's license for powered aircraft and in 1938 she learned to fly . She later became a flight instructor in the Bremen Aviation Association. In 1936 she founded a women's aviation group in the Bremen Aviation Association , in which she trained young women to become pilots in Wildeshausen and Garlstedt . She headed the group until 1943.

After the Second World War , she secretly managed to fly again in 1947. In 1955 she moved to her husband Werner Hübner in Hamburg and was now called Hübner-Kunath. In the 1950s, she was the first woman in the Federal Republic of Germany to acquire a glider pilot's license . With eight other pilots like Elly Beinhorn and Hanna Reitsch , she founded the Association of German Female Pilots on April 6, 1968 at the Petersau family estate of the von Opel family near Worms . For ten years she was a consultant for the association, which had 300 members in the 1990s. From 1974 to 1979 she was the association's press spokeswoman and chairwoman of the Lower Saxony, Hamburg and Bremen regions. At the age of 84, Kunath was still behind the control stick and was therefore Germany's oldest female pilot.

She is buried in the Kunath family grave in the Riensberg cemetery (grave site W357a).

Honors

• The Hanna-Kunath-Straße in Bremen- Neustadt at Bremen airport was named after her 1995th

literature

• Edith Laudowicz : Kunath, Hanna, married. Huebner-Kunath . In: Women's history (s) , Bremer Frauenmuseum (ed.). Edition Falkenberg, Bremen 2016, ISBN 978-3-95494-095-0 .
• Monika Porsch: Bremer Straßenlexikon , complete edition. Schünemann, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-7961-1850-X .
• Maria Hermes: Hanna Kunath . In: Publications of the Bremer Frauenmuseum, Bremen. [1] (PDF; 232 kB)