Margret Fusbahn

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Luise Margret Fusbahn , b. Billwiller (born July 14, 1907 in St. Gallen , Switzerland ; † March 12, 2001 in Sintra , Portugal ) was an aviation pioneer. In 1930 she set a record for altitude for light aircraft .

Life

After training at a flight school in Böblingen Fusbahn acquired the in August 1928 ticket . As early as 1930, she broke the international class C altitude record in a Klemm light aircraft with an altitude of 4900 meters (according to other sources 4614 meters).

Fusbahn was married to Ludwig Werner Fusbahn, an aviator who was also known in the 30s. Together they made long-haul flights to Africa. The marriage was divorced in 1938 and Margret Fusbahn left Switzerland. She died in Portugal in 2001 as Rosa Margareta Rodriguez.

The Margret-Fusbahn-Strasse near the Böblingen airfield was named after her.

literature

  • Ernst Probst : Margret Fusbahn and Ludwig Werner Fusbahn. The "flying couple". In: Ernst Probst: Queens of the skies in Germany. Biographies of famous female pilots. Grin-Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-67757-3 , online at Google Books.
  • Jutta Rebmann : When a woman blew up. The story of the early female pilots. Stieglitz-Verlag, Mühlacker et al. 2001, ISBN 3-7987-0361-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evelyn Zegenhagen: "Dashing German Girls". Airmen between 1918 and 1945. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0179-5 ( Deutsches Museum. Treatises and reports NF 22), (Also: Munich-Neubiberg, Univ. Der Bundeswehr, Diss., 2006), P. 454, online at Google Books .
personal data
SURNAME Fusbahn, Margret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fusbahn, Luise Margret (full name); Billwiller, Luise Margret (maiden name); Rodrigues, Rosa Magareta (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss aviation pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 2001
Place of death Sintra , Portugal