{"id":30123847,"date":"2026-10-29T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/elly-beinhorn-german-aviatrix-round-the-world-1932-klemm-taifun\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:37:34","slug":"elly-beinhorn-german-aviatrix-round-the-world-1932-klemm-taifun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/fr\/elly-beinhorn-german-aviatrix-round-the-world-1932-klemm-taifun\/","title":{"rendered":"Elly Beinhorn: The German Aviatrix Who Flew Around the World in 1932"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\n\n\n<!-- mfsh:top -->\n\n<style>\n.mfsh-trigger{display:inline-flex;align-items:center;gap:10px;height:44px;padding:0 18px;margin:0 0 26px;border:2px solid 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An American pilot is working on his biplane when a battered Ford rolls out of the desert. In it, half-buried in dust, is a young woman looking for a mechanic. Her own aircraft is stranded up the coast with a broken undercarriage. She is German, she is 24, and she is flying from Berlin to Australia on her own.<\/p>\n\n<p>Her name was Elly Beinhorn. The American was Moye Stephens, flying around the world with the travel writer Richard Halliburton, and their meeting became a chapter in Halliburton's bestseller The Flying Carpet. By the time Beinhorn got home, she had crossed Asia, reached Australia and flown through South America, becoming one of the most famous pilots in Germany.<\/p>\n\n<p>Her story is also a complicated one. Her greatest fame came in the 1930s, when the Nazi regime was keen to use celebrated aviators, and she married a racing driver the regime turned into a national hero. Here is what she flew, and what historians make of the rest.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f4f6f9;border:1px solid #e2e7ee;padding:18px 22px;margin:22px 0 26px\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:700;color:#0d1117\">Quick Facts<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px\"><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Born:<\/strong> 30 May 1907, Hanover, Germany<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Pilot's licence:<\/strong> 1929, after training at Berlin-Staaken<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>1931:<\/strong> Solo flight to West Africa in a Klemm; forced landing near Timbuktu<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Round the world:<\/strong> Left Berlin on 4 December 1931; flew across Asia, to Australia and through South America, shipping her plane across the oceans; home in summer 1932<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Award:<\/strong> Hindenburg Cup, 1932<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Records:<\/strong> Bf 108 Taifun: Gleiwitz to Istanbul to Berlin in one day, 13 August 1935 (3,470 km); three continents in one day, August 1936<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Marriage:<\/strong> Racing driver Bernd Rosemeyer, 13 July 1936; he was killed in January 1938<\/li><li style=\"margin:4px 0\"><strong>Died:<\/strong> 28 November 2007, aged 100<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">From Hanover to Berlin-Staaken<\/h2>\n\n<p>Elly Beinhorn was born in Hanover on 30 May 1907. In 1928 she heard a lecture by Hermann K\u00f6hl, who had just flown the Atlantic from east to west, and decided she would fly. Against her parents' wishes, and with a small inheritance, she moved to Berlin and took lessons at Staaken airfield, earning her licence in 1929.<\/p>\n\n<p>Money was the problem from the start. To pay for flying she gave aerobatic displays at weekends, which kept her in the air but bored her. What she really wanted was distance.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BAs0tjTbyEE\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:0 0 24px;font-style:italic\">ZDF's Terra X History (in German) on Germany's best-known women pilots of the 1930s, including Elly Beinhorn, and how their careers unfolded under the Nazi regime.<\/p>\n\n<p>Germany at the time had a small but famous group of women pilots, among them Marga von Etzdorf and Thea Rasche. Long-distance flights made headlines, and headlines brought sponsors. Beinhorn set out to earn hers.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Africa, 1931: a camel ride into Timbuktu<\/h2>\n\n<p>Her first big flight began on 4 January 1931. She flew a small Klemm monoplane from Berlin via Spain and Morocco down the West African coast to Portuguese Guinea, now Guinea-Bissau, where she joined a scientific expedition. On the way back, her engine failed and she came down in swampland in the Niger region, short of Timbuktu.<\/p>\n\n<p>She walked away unhurt. Halliburton, who heard the story from locals in Timbuktu soon afterwards, wrote that a broken oil pipe had caused the crash and that she rode into the town's market place on a camel, still in her flying clothes. She salvaged what she could from the aircraft and made her way back to Berlin, where she landed at Tempelhof on 29 April 1931 to a hero's welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/elly-beinhorn-german-aviatrix-round-the-world-1932-klemm-tai-img1.jpg\" alt=\"Elly Beinhorn arriving at Berlin-Tempelhof airport after her 1931 flight to Africa\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Elly Beinhorn is welcomed at Berlin-Tempelhof after her 1931 Africa flight, which made her a celebrity in Germany. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-11633 \/ Georg Pahl \/ CC-BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>The flight made her famous in Germany almost overnight. It also gave her the confidence, and the publicity, to try something much bigger.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Around the world, 1931 to 1932<\/h2>\n\n<p>On 4 December 1931, Beinhorn took off from Berlin-Staaken in another small Klemm, heading east. Her route took her through Budapest, Belgrade, Istanbul, Aleppo and Baghdad to the Persian Gulf. It was there, after a forced landing up the coast, that she turned up in Bushire looking for help and found Moye Stephens and Halliburton's Flying Carpet.<\/p>\n\n<p>Halliburton recorded her introduction in his book: she was a German pilot on her way from Berlin to Australia, alone. Stephens flew her back to her stranded aircraft and helped repair it. The two crews then travelled on together across Persia and India, and Halliburton left no doubt about what he thought of her flying.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;She was unquestionably the most skilful, most fearless, woman pilot in Germany. Indeed, there were very few men pilots who could compare with her.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Richard Halliburton<\/strong> &mdash; travel writer, The Flying Carpet, 1932<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>In India the three pilots performed at an air display in Calcutta in front of the Maharaja of Nepal, and Halliburton described Beinhorn putting on aerobatics almost as daring as Stephens's. Through his son, the old ruler gave them permission to fly towards Mount Everest, and the two aircraft set off together for the Himalayas.<\/p>\n\n<p>They flew on together through South-East Asia. In Bangkok the King and Queen of Siam gave a party for her, and after a month together in Singapore the pilots finally went their separate ways. A note followed from Batavia, now Jakarta, which Halliburton printed in full.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;The world became very big and very empty again, after I left Singapore.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Elly Beinhorn<\/strong> &mdash; letter to Halliburton and Stephens from Batavia, printed in The Flying Carpet, 1932<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>From Java she island-hopped via Bali and Timor and crossed the Timor Sea to Darwin, arriving in March 1932. She was often described as the second woman, after Amy Johnson, to fly alone from Europe to Australia. She then flew south-east across Queensland, through Charleville to Brisbane.<\/p>\n\n<p>In Brisbane she was presented to the Governor of Queensland at the opening of the William Jolly Bridge on 30 March 1932, before flying on to Sydney. Her journey was far from over.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/elly-beinhorn-german-aviatrix-round-the-world-1932-klemm-tai-img2.jpg\" alt=\"Elly Beinhorn at the opening of the William Jolly Bridge in Brisbane on 30 March 1932\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Beinhorn in Brisbane on 30 March 1932, days after crossing the Timor Sea to Darwin, at the opening of the William Jolly Bridge. Credit: Brisbane Courier \/ State Library of Queensland (public domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Her Klemm was dismantled and shipped across the Pacific via New Zealand to Panama. There she reassembled it and flew down the west coast of South America, was decorated in Peru, crossed the Andes and reached Buenos Aires before shipping home to Germany. She was back in Berlin in the summer of 1932, after a journey that German accounts put at around 31,000 km.<\/p>\n\n<p>Strictly, it was a round-the-world journey rather than a solo flight around the world: the oceans were crossed by ship, as was common at the time. The first woman to fly solo all the way around the globe was Jerrie Mock in 1964. But no one doubted the achievement. Beinhorn came home in debt and was awarded the Hindenburg Cup, worth 10,000 Reichsmarks, which let her keep flying. Her book Ein M\u00e4dchen fliegt um die Welt became a bestseller and appeared in English in 1935 as Flying Girl.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Africa again, and the Americas<\/h2>\n\n<p>In 1933 she flew a Heinkel He 71, a light single-seat cabin monoplane, from Berlin to Cape Town and back. It was the first year of Nazi rule, and the flight had a political edge: her book about it, 180 Stunden \u00fcber Afrika, openly presented the trip as publicity for Germany in its former African colonies, according to German biographical accounts.<\/p>\n\n<p>In 1934 and 1935 came a tour of the Americas in a Klemm Kl 32. She flew from Panama through Central America and Mexico, then across the United States, before returning to Germany by ship in January 1935.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The Bf 108 Taifun and her one-day records<\/h2>\n\n<p>Her next aircraft was a very different machine. The Messerschmitt Bf 108 was a fast, four-seat touring monoplane with retractable undercarriage that first flew in 1934. Beinhorn named her example Taifun, typhoon, and the name stuck to the whole type.<\/p>\n\n<p>On 13 August 1935 she took off from Gleiwitz in Upper Silesia before dawn, flew to Istanbul, turning over the Asian shore of the Bosporus, and was back in Berlin that evening: about 3,470 km in a single day, from Europe to Asia and back. In 2010 Deutsche Post marked the 75th anniversary of the flight with a stamp.<\/p>\n\n<p>A year later, in August 1936, she went further. She flew about 3,750 km from Damascus via Cairo to Berlin, touching Asia, Africa and Europe in a single day.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lYChCv48vHA\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:0 0 24px;font-style:italic\">A surviving Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun, the type Beinhorn named, flying over the Swiss Alps.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Bernd Rosemeyer and a Nazi celebrity marriage<\/h2>\n\n<p>On 29 September 1935, on a lecture tour in Czechoslovakia, Beinhorn was invited by Auto Union to the Czechoslovakian Grand Prix in Brno. She congratulated the winner, a young driver named Bernd Rosemeyer. They married on 13 July 1936, and Nazi propaganda made the most of them: the record-breaking aviator and the fearless racing driver.<\/p>\n\n<p>Rosemeyer had become a member of the SS. Their son, Bernd, was born on 12 November 1937. Ten weeks later, on 28 January 1938, Rosemeyer was killed on the autobahn between Frankfurt and Darmstadt when his streamlined Auto Union was caught by a gust of wind during a speed record attempt.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/10\/elly-beinhorn-german-aviatrix-round-the-world-1932-klemm-tai-img3.jpg\" alt=\"Elly Beinhorn and racing driver Bernd Rosemeyer on their wedding day in Berlin in 1936\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Elly Beinhorn and Bernd Rosemeyer marry in Berlin in July 1936; the regime promoted them as a celebrity couple. Credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 146-2007-0212 \/ Herbert Hoffmann \/ CC-BY-SA 3.0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Beinhorn reportedly asked for a simple, non-political funeral. Her wishes were ignored, and Nazi officials gave speeches at the graveside. Her memoir of her husband, Mein Mann, der Rennfahrer, published in 1938, became her best-selling book.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">How to judge her Nazi-era career<\/h2>\n\n<p>German biographical accounts say Beinhorn never joined the Nazi party, and older portraits presented her as an apolitical sportswoman. More recent historians are less generous. Christoph Frilling, in a 2009 study of Beinhorn and Rosemeyer, found German-nationalist and at times racist attitudes in her writings and judged her a willing fellow traveller rather than a perpetrator.<\/p>\n\n<p>Her flying itself is not in dispute. When war came, her Taifun was requisitioned by the Luftwaffe in 1939 and she largely stopped flying. In 1941 she married Karl Wittmann, a businessman, and their daughter Stefanie was born the following year.<\/p>\n\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">Flying again, and a long life<\/h2>\n\n<p>After the war, powered flying was banned in Germany. Beinhorn flew gliders, then went to Switzerland, where she renewed her licence in 1951 and flew a Piper Cub as a reporter. She later presented television programmes and kept writing. In 1977 she published her autobiography, Alleinflug, meaning solo flight.<\/p>\n\n<p>She voluntarily handed in her pilot's licence in 1979, at the age of 72. In 2014, German television dramatised her life in the film Elly Beinhorn: Alleinflug, with Vicky Krieps in the title role.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0 6px\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HtqdiR_5WZ0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin:0 0 24px;font-style:italic\">UFA Fiction's trailer for Elly Beinhorn: Alleinflug (2014), the German TV film about her life.<\/p>\n\n<p>Elly Beinhorn died near Munich on 28 November 2007, aged 100, and was buried beside Bernd Rosemeyer in Berlin. She outlived almost everyone she had flown with. What remains is a set of flights that are hard to argue with, made by a young woman in an open-cockpit Klemm, and a reminder that the golden age of record flying was not lived outside politics.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>Sources: Richard Halliburton (The Flying Carpet, 1932), State Library of Queensland (John Oxley Library), Wikipedia (English and German), Deutsche Aero Club (Pionierinnen der L\u00fcfte), ZDF Terra X, New York Sun, GrandPrix.com, Christoph Frilling (Die Pilotin und der Rennfahrer, 2009)<\/em><\/p>\n\n<!-- mfsh:bottom -->\n\n<button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-trigger mfsh-bottom\" data-mfsh-placement=\"bottom\" aria-haspopup=\"dialog\"><svg><use href=\"#mfsh-i-share\"\/><\/svg>Share this story<\/button>\n\n<!-- \/mfsh:bottom -->\n\n\n<style>.mfq{margin:34px 0 8px}.mfq h2{font:26px\/1.3 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117;padding-top:22px;margin:0 0 6px}.mfq .qa details{border-top:1px solid #5C91FF;margin:0;padding:0}.mfq .qa details:last-of-type{border-bottom:1px solid #e2e7ee}.mfq .qa summary{cursor:pointer;list-style:none;display:flex;justify-content:space-between;align-items:center;gap:16px;padding:22px 26px;font:18px\/1.7 \"Gilroy semiBold\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#0d1117}.mfq .qa summary::-webkit-details-marker{display:none}.mfq .qa summary::after{content:\"+\";font:24px Helvetica,sans-serif;color:#3568e0;flex:0 0 auto}.mfq .qa details[open] summary::after{content:\"\\2013\"}.mfq .qa details:hover summary{color:#3568e0}.mfq .qa .a{font:16px\/1.7 \"Gilroy regular\",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:#454e5e;padding:0 26px 24px}.mfq .qa .a a{color:#3568e0}@media(max-width:680px){.mfq .qa summary{padding:18px 14px;font-size:17px}.mfq .qa .a{padding:0 14px 20px}}<\/style>\n\n\n<section class=\"mfq\"><h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2><div class=\"qa\"><details open><summary>Who was Elly Beinhorn?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Elly Beinhorn was a German aviator, born in Hanover in 1907, who became famous for long-distance flights in the 1930s. She flew solo to West Africa in 1931, made a round-the-world journey in 1931 and 1932, set one-day records in a Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun and married racing driver Bernd Rosemeyer. She died in 2007, aged 100.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Did Elly Beinhorn fly around the world?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Elly Beinhorn made a round-the-world journey between December 1931 and summer 1932, flying a small Klemm from Berlin across Asia to Australia and later through South America. Her aircraft crossed the Pacific and Atlantic by ship, as was usual then, so it was not a solo flight all the way around the globe. Jerrie Mock achieved that in 1964.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened on Elly Beinhorn's 1931 Africa flight?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Elly Beinhorn left Berlin on 4 January 1931 and flew a Klemm to Portuguese Guinea, now Guinea-Bissau, to join a scientific expedition. On the return flight a broken oil pipe forced her down in swampland short of Timbuktu. She reached the town by camel, made her way home and landed at Berlin-Tempelhof on 29 April 1931.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Why is the Messerschmitt Bf 108 called Taifun?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">The Messerschmitt Bf 108 is called Taifun, German for typhoon, because Elly Beinhorn gave that name to her own Bf 108 and it was later used for the whole type. In her Taifun she flew from Gleiwitz to Istanbul and on to Berlin in one day on 13 August 1935, and crossed three continents in one day in August 1936.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>How did Elly Beinhorn meet Richard Halliburton?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Elly Beinhorn met Richard Halliburton and pilot Moye Stephens at Bushire on the Persian Gulf during her 1931-32 flight, after a forced landing damaged her Klemm. Stephens helped repair it, and they flew on together across Persia and India and towards Mount Everest. Halliburton described her in his 1932 book The Flying Carpet.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>Was Elly Beinhorn a Nazi?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">German biographical accounts say Elly Beinhorn never joined the Nazi party. However, her 1933 Africa flight was openly framed as publicity for Germany, and she and her husband Bernd Rosemeyer, an SS member, were promoted as a celebrity couple. Historian Christoph Frilling described her in 2009 as a willing fellow traveller rather than a perpetrator.<\/div><\/details><details><summary>What happened to Bernd Rosemeyer, Elly Beinhorn's husband?<\/summary><div class=\"a\">Bernd Rosemeyer, the Auto Union racing driver Elly Beinhorn married on 13 July 1936, was killed on 28 January 1938 during a speed record attempt on the autobahn between Frankfurt and Darmstadt, when a gust of wind caught his streamlined car. Their son Bernd had been born ten weeks earlier. 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