Christl-Marie Schultes (1904-1976, née Maria Rosalia Schultes, was the first Bavarian pilot. Because of their origin from a forester's family she was "Ranger Christl" called. were in their adventurous flying life is ups and downs.
Maria Rosalia Schultes came on 6 November 1904 by one of four children from the second marriage of the Bavarian Forester Otmar Schultes peace rock with Theresa Schulte, nee Koller, in the case of forest Geigant Munich (Upper Palatinate) world. From 1907 the family lived in Schultes Oberenzenau in Bad Heilbrunn (Upper Bavaria), where the father had been transferred.
learned in 1928, the adventurous Christl-Marie without the knowledge of her parents in Berlin-Staaken flying. Under the so-called A bill she received soon after the aerobatic certificate. With a borrowed engine from its flight school, she performed at air shows in the province and was cheered as the first Bavarian aviator.
In March 1929, Christl-Marie bought with the financial support of the city and their parents in Tölz England, a private plane, they should fly for Bad Tolz and its operating baths advertising. This machine was on 4 August 1929 in the name of "Bad Tölz" baptized. So they stepped up to the German air idols Ernst Udet and Gerhard Fieseler, both at home and abroad. Solely with the air show in Munich, estimated admired 50000-150000 viewers inside their flying skills.
In the summer of 1930 the aircraft was "Bad Tölz" during a flight over the Fichtelgebirge of a Gewitterbö thrown to the ground and crashed. Christl-Marie and her passenger escaped unhurt. Soon after, she received a second plane, called "Bad Tolz.
The crash of Christl-Marie in the Fichtelgebirge prevented their planned participation in the Europe-flight in the summer of 1930, where she had been the only German pilot. Was not achieved after a long flight scheduled for November 1930 Japan.
In the spring of 1931 Christl-Marie wanted to achieve together with the young pilots Gustav Sackmann from Cannstatt the bold plan for a flight around the world. But the two fell on 21 May 1931 during a storm in an attempted emergency landing in Schaibing near Passau (Niederbayern) and was seriously injured. In this accident lost her left leg Christl-Marie and had to wear a prosthetic leg now.
was from April 1933 Christl-Marie his own magazine called "German Flugillustierte" out. Because they are not the "Nazi" and had joined a Jewish fiance, she was confiscated by the Nazis. In the following years she was monitored by the "Gestapo."
After the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, who had been their patron, emigrated Christl-Marie in August 1934 in Switzerland, in 1936, first to Spain, where soon civil war broke out, then to Portugal and finally to France .
In France Christl-Marie helped poor children and the persecuted, until they are arrested and brought to the internment Brens. After 14 months in this camp, she was deported in 1942 to Germany, came to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, but was due to the help of an apparently released in SS man she fell in love again. Her work in the aircraft industry, they lost in March 1943 for "political unreliability."
In spring 1944, Christl-Marie criticized in the post office in Bad Tolz and then when driving from Bad Tolz in Bad Heilbrunn in a packed bus, the "Nazis" and called for soldiers to not to go to war. Then they wandered in Germany before she voluntarily to the authorities in October 1944 presented.
That Christl-Marie was not executed for military morale, she owed the Americans, who on 1 May 1945 with tanks in the prison yard of Munich-Stadelheim rolled. Christl-Marie has used even after the Second World War and over again for other people. For example, for German prisoners of war or for earthquake victims in Morocco.
On 9 March 1976 died Christl-Marie Schultes at the age of 71 years impoverished and forgotten in Munich. Her life would offer ample material for novels or movies. So far, however, not even a road or a way to honor the first Bavarian aviator been named.
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literature on Christl-Marie Schultes
Ernst Probst: queens of the skies from A to Z, Munich 2010
Ernst Probst: queens of the skies in Europe, Munich 2010
Ernst Probst : queen of the skies in Germany, Munich 2010
Ernst Probst / Josef Eimannsberger: Three queens of the skies from Bavaria, Munich 2010
Ernst Probst / Theo Lederer: Christl-Marie Schultes. The first Bavarian aviator, Munich 2010
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