First career as a female pilot

With 16 Beate goes for one year to England, in order to learn as a outer Pair English. Afterwards it returns on the parental property, where it completes for sake its parents sake one "correct "training (in housekeeping). During a journey to Berlin its father becomes acquainted with coincidentally the powered flight adviser of the German aero club, William Saxonia mountain, and complains him its wrong about its "flight-crazy "daughter and "the rubbish "from female pilots. Saxonia mountain however shows full understanding and sends the documentation over pilot training finally gives parents to that urge the young woman after and on 7 August 1937 can Beate for the first time with the flier school rank village with Berlin in a Heinkel He 72 with the flight instructor Tobaschefski the feeling of flying feel. Later the first solo flight follows three weeks. Of flight instructor Haak it on the samples wedge Kl 25 and Focke Wulf L.G. 44 retrained and flies for the first time on the B 131 young man, which should get still great importance for it. With a solo cross-country flight rank village - Magdeburg - resounding Leipzig - rank village at the 11. and 12 October locks it their training and can punctually at their 18. Birthday its a2 against take. Thus it applies with likewise in rank village the residents aircraft construction GmbH, where it is adjusted from 1 November on as Praktikantin and by 30 April 1938 all ranges of the company goes through. Since the company had employed a female a aviator and demonstrating female pilot already in former times with Luise Hoffmann, Beates aeronautical ambitions were obviously promoted, because them could further-train but also with the aerobatics training begin 66 up to the class B1 during this time not only on Gotha Go 145 and Arado acre. Their flight instructor was now Hans Uhse, their later married man. The aerobatics examination K1 can do it however only on 19 August 1938 placings. But already before it had one month at the 1. Reliability flight for sport aviators participated and under 13 participant inside with one wedge Kl 25 behind Melitta Schiller the second place occupied. Later it sends three weeks the work with a B 131 A to the participation at the air running in Cortrijk (Courtrai) /Belgien, where them become with their only 80 HP strong airplane in its class first and in the total valuation third. To 16. May 1939 puts it down with Bravour its aerobatics examination K2. Three months later, with 2. Reliability flight of the sport aviators, becomes it, behind Liesel brook B 180) and Luise Harden (Siebel SI 202), likewise on a 180 third, again under 13 participant inside. One the first Gratulanten is William Saxonia mountain, which also organized the competition. Still few days before outbreak of war, on 20 August, it is sent from the work with a B of 133 young masters after in Denmark, in order to demonstrate the airplane there. It is now recognized.

Beate was from the outset in love with Uhse, their flight instructor, rejects however its repeated proposals. It wants to never ever give "flies up of a man because of ". Since Hans supports it in its ambitions energetically, she finally him, but now however their father places himself crosswise. A whole year long it refuses its consent to the recent pair. Finally the wedding is determined at 10 October 1939 - in addition it does not come however because of the outbreak of war any longer. On 28 September Hans Uhse is to engage. Beate and it marry four hours before its departure with one war wedding they of as a female pilot are adjusted and fly now, together with the three factory pilots Benitz, Ahlfeld and Beier, new or repaired airplanes and transfer them also, like e.g. repeatedly to Hungary.

When a film company inquires with about pilots for photographs as doubles for the sizes of the film, the company Beate Uhse suggests being able to hide, small enough is around itself in the front seat and from there the airplane at the soil be rolled or it also flown, while the film heroes mark such as Hans Albers or Deltgen in the rear seat the bold flier. Film, in which it was called for Deltgen with a B 180 '' student '' by a balloon barrier to fly and - to wing break - which crash must simulate, "attention, enemy monitors! ", However only one model lost the wing in reality. Also in the film "D III 88 "participates it, where it sits in one the 131 verzierten with Kokarden, which represents English fighters of the First World War. Against it ""the L.G. 44 provided with bar crosses and mg mockups fight as German hunters. Completely unclearly however their participation in the film is "water for Canitoga "from 1939. Hans Albers played therein the main role, but - to fly there was there surely nothing, because the action plays 1905 in the fissured mountain world of Canada, at a time thus, where the brothers WRIGHTs made straight their first flights"Â…

To 1 April 1942 changes Beate Uhse from to the again created airplane repair work "of the old person of eagle "Alfred Friedrich in Strausberg, where she flies and transfers in used way airplanes. Starting from April 1944 it is consulted again and again between in it for delivery flights, usually of Junkers Ju 87, which must come from the Weser manufacturing into Tempelhof and be brought to the air parks.

1943 had come Beate Uhses son Klaus to the world. Since she works in an war-important enterprise, she may remain further employed and receives permission for employing a child girl who guards also her house in rank village. In May 1944 its man Hans has an accident deadly and leaves Beate as widow with the one year's Klaus. The possibility ordered at the Air Force of flying airplanes to which it would have never approached as a sport aviator, inspires it. It flies the hunters Messerschmitt BF 109 and Focke Wulf L.G. 190, as well as far Ju 87, occasionally also once a twin-engine Messerschmitt BF 110. During these flights it is not missing that it comes also to meetings with allied hunters, that fire at the German airplane. With luck and aeronautical being able it however always comes of it (see interview in).).

Starting from 1 October 1944 she is then transferred group of center with seat in the rank captain by the transfer squadron of a 1, to Staaken. Completely in the end, in April 1945, it gets there also still another briefing on the jet fighter Messerschmitt ME 262. With this flight experience, it thinks, it after the war good career opportunities as a female pilot will have.

In April 1945 Berlin of Soviet troops is enclosed. Their group is to shift from Staaken into the west. Beate Uhse, straight from a delivery flight to Leipzig back, wants however in no case without its son and its child girl away. By the destroyed city it pierces to its house in rank village and gets themselves the two. With much trouble they succeed in coming to Gatow the only still open airfield. The other members of the two relays are already away. A ready standing Junkers Ju 52 into which straight wounded ones will ship, would carry it and its son forward, not however the child girl. It remains thus and discovers an airplane, a Siebel Fh 104, on which however a sign hangs "unclear ". It nevertheless to make clear helps her a left flight engineer of the second relay. While this refuels the 120 litres fuel, those approved the commander of place for the promise Beates, two wounded to carry forward, reads it the manual of the airplane, which did not fly her before ever. With the two, their son, the child girl and the flight engineer start they wounded clock at the 22.April around 5:55 to the west. Their airplane is one of the last machines, which come out from Gatow. Over Barth, where she meets the relay again and all trouble has to defend their airplane against requirements of their relay leader and after repeated intermediate stop in she finally creates it, probably-keeps to leakage into Nordfriesland to come. Despite already very limited fuel become it must keep itself far still by the place, because a straight quantity of English hunters attacks there already the German airplanes in large number. Only as the aggressors again away are, can they land. Here it is imprisoned taken by the engaging British troops. After its dismissal from the war shank establishes itself Beate Uhse with their son in Flensburg.

Literature

• Uta van Steen: Dear beads - Beate Uhse: a German career. European publishing house 2003, ISBN 3434505482
• Beate Uhse and Ulrich Pramann: I want liberty for the love - Beate Uhse. The autobiography. Ullstein paperback, 2001, ISBN 3548600492.
• Beate Uhse: With heart and soul. My life. Ullstein, 1989, ISBN 3550064292

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