Charlotte Möhring | |
Birth Date: | 31 March 1887 |
Birth Place: | Pankow, German Empire |
Death Date: | 19 October 1970 |
Death Place: | Berlin |
Known For: | early aviator |
Nationality: | German |
Charlotte Möhring (born 31 March 1887 - died 19 October 1970 in Berlin) was a German aviator and the second German woman to receive a pilot's license.[1]
She was born in Pankow in 1887.
Möhring was a passenger on a flight from Johannisthal to Döberitz on board a Rumpler Taube. On 7 September 1912 she received pilot's license #285 flying a Grade monoplane. She was the second German woman to be licensed (after Amelie Beese), and the third woman in Germany (after Beese and Božena Laglerová from Prague).[2] She flew at the Essen-Gelsenkirchen-Rotthausen aerodrome.[3]
Charlotte was married to Georg Mürau, who was also a pilot and instructor, they operated a flying school together in 1914. She was the manager and they toured and exhibited in 21 cities in Germany alone. During and after World War I civil aviation was restricted in Germany, Möhring did not resume her flying career which in 1953 she described as "a sport".[4] She died in 1970 in Berlin.