Lilly Steinschneider - Biography

Lilly Steinschneider, fully Lilly Helene Steinschneider-Wenckheim (January 13, 1891, Budapest – March 28, 1975, Geneva) was a Hungarian pilot, the first qualified female pilot in the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Family history

• Jakab Steinschneider ∞ ?
  • Bernát Steinschneider ∞ Irma Wohl (born in the Czech lands)
    • Lilly Steinschneider

Life

In August 1912 she received the fourth pilot license issued by the flying school established in Wiener Neustadt. Her teacher was the renowned aviation pioneer Karl Illner. She flew an Etrich Taube.

See also

• Hans Vollmöller, Robert Vollmöller (1849, Ilsfeld - 1911, Stuttgart) (de)
• Karl Illner (1877, Schatzlar - 1935, Vienna) (de)
• Joseph Sablatnig (1886, Klagenfurt - 1945 (?), Berlin) (de)
• Etrich-Taube (1910, by Igo Etrich; 1879, Bohemia - 1967)

External links

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