Amelie Beese

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Melli Beese - ca. 1915

Amelie Hedwig Boutard-Beese (September 13, 1886, Laubegast, near Dresden—December 22, 1925, Berlin), also known as Melli Beese.

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Commemorative plaque at the birth place of Melli Beese in Dresden-Laubegast (Oesterreicher Street No. 84)

Amelie Beese was an architect and a sculptor who became the first aviatress in Germany despite much male opposition and sabotage. She started her own flying school and aircraft company. A bad marriage to a Frenchman and World War I combined to discourage her.

Beese shot herself on 22 December, 1925.

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• Early aviators entry

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