Katharina Paulus, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Katharina Paulus

Date of Birth: 22-Dec-1868

Place of Birth: Zellhausen, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 26-Jul-1935

Profession: inventor, aircraft pilot

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Katharina “Käthe” Paulus (22 December 1868 – 26 July 1935) was a German exhibition parachute jumper and the inventor of the first collapsable parachute.
At the time, the parachute was named, 'rescue apparatus for aeronauts' in 1910.
The previous parachutes were not able to fit in a case like apparatus worn on the back, thus Paulus' invention became of paramount importance for the Germans in World War I and she produced about 7000 parachutes for the German forces.
During World War I Paulus created approximately 125 parachutes a week.
Paulus was also credited with inventing the drag 'chute, an intentional breakaway system where one small parachute opens to pull out the main parachute.Paulus was an avid aeronaut herself and logged over 510 balloon flights and over 165 parachute jumps in her lifetime.
She was the first German to be a professional air pilot and the first German woman aerial acrobat.Despite the fact that hot air balloons are currently known as a sort of tourist attraction, during the final decades of the 19th century, these hot air balloons were at the time, were on the cutting edge of technology, and were popular before the invention of airplane.