Lilly Steinschneider
Lilly Steinschneider, fully Lilly Helene Steinschneider-Wenckheim (Hungarian: Steinschneider-Wenckheim Helene Lilly, Steinschneider Lilly, January 13, 1891, Budapest – March 28, 1975, Geneva) was a Hungarian pilot, the first qualified female pilot in the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Life
Wealthy Austro-Hungarian-Jewish bourgeois family's second child as he saw the light of day (some sources say 1890) .The famous family furniture and bedding factory was founded by the grandfather of James Steinschneider 1857 Komárom. According to an anecdote itself Sissi also went into their business at the time, but the fact that the imperial family were bedding suppliers. His father, Bernard later founded his own company. His mother was born in the Czech Republic Wohl Irma. Three brothers known, although an old newspaper article, according to five of them were brothers, brother Hugo even as an infant died, his brother Frederick composer and youth committed suicide, his sister Margaret later customize clock Magyarization the names of the five brothers, no further information is not known, probably he is during infancy deceased . As Ilka registered in Lillyként but the world knew it. In the summer of 1910, held in Budapest International Airport and competition was so impressed that he decided to become a pilot. 1912 has appeared in prestigious passengers, pilots, flight competition because there are some tasks were also passenger transportation conditions. Lightweight body type and entrepreneurship helped to distance and height record attempt to be a participant.
Steinschneider also took part in two races airport: Madame Palliers behalf of the French and Austrian Lilly Steinschneider colors. In 1913, St. Stephen's Day flying contest in Budapest, the Hungarian meadow airport Lilly's success in the great satisfaction of the audience, and while getting off a plane had run into homokbuckának and crashed without injury to the female pilot, had left her own two feet. According to the official final results of the competition pilots Miss won the speed competition, second prize in the competition of flight in a row (6 minutes and 15 seconds) and the total time spent in the air race (10 minutes, 7 seconds). Lilly excellent flight capabilities soon aviatics an Austrian company has also noticed that offered him a job. However, the wealthy young lady had other ideas, so that the employment relationship did not last long. On March 16, 1914, the Motor GmbH Luftfahrzeug felmondólevelet sent Lilly, which resigned from further service. Lányi Anthony, to whom probably too gentle fibers and disciple, take part in a variety show together. However, this romance is interrupted by the start of the war. Lilly offer his services to the War Department, which, however, are rejected because of his father (who, unlike the contemporary courtesy of pilots his own plane had) to intervene among others. The photograph was judging us, it seems to adventurous young lady had to settle for short-term nursing service in the First World War. In 1914, she married Count Coudenhove-Kalergi Virgilio Johannes Evangelist von Ronspergheimmal (Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi and his brother) and her husband moved to his residence in the Czech Republic. At the request of her husband she broke contact with his family and only met his mother and sister named Margaret secret. The flight had stopped. This greatly contributed to that after the First World War stopped civil aviation. In September 1915, Lilly pitched very polite letter of formal notice from the Imperial Royal Technical Association in Flight, which was asked to pay the arrears in membership dues.
The young couple for a long time avoided the child is a blessing. Finally, on June 22, 1927 in Prague daughter was born, the family who traditionally have supplied ample cross names: Maria Electa Thecla Elisabeth Christina Sophia Helena. It appears from the intimate tone magánlevelezésből later that the girl simply called Pixie's. The long-awaited birth of a medal issued on the occasion of the family. The picture shows the Hungarian National Archives microfilm storage can be found in the little girl of nine or ten, arcvonásain strongly reflected in the quarter-blood Japanese origin. 1939 lean times came the usual right mode Counts family. Lilly's daughter moved to Italy because of the growing Nazi threat, which was ill a lot and very modest financial circumstances, amid privations tengette life. Despite this, her husband wrote a series of letters hot unanimous that do not have signs of pre-screened later divorce. Presumably because of his Jewish origin he was forced to live separated for her husband. Her husband, in any case, separation and removal of 18 August 1943, issued a statement. After World War II he lived in retirement in southern France. In 1960, she divorced her husband. The Coudenhove family tree, according to Geneva on 28 March 1975, died (Other sources say he died in Nice in 1977 and is buried there as well.) In Wiener Neustadt. - At the age of 21 where the pilot exam passed - a street named after him
External links
 |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lilly Steinschneider. |