Autographs of Hanna Reitsch
Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 – 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and test pilot. Along with Melitta von Stauffenberg, she flight-tested many of Germany's new aircraft during World War II and received many honors. Reitsch was among the very last people to meet Adolf Hitler before his death in the Führerbunker in late April 1945. Following her capture, she provided information about her departure from Berlin and denied that she might have helped Hitler escape.
During the 1930s, Reitsch set more than 40 flight altitude records and women's endurance records in gliding and unpowered flight. In the 1960s, she was sponsored by the West German foreign office as a technical adviser in Ghana and elsewhere. She also founded a gliding school in Ghana, where she worked for Kwame Nkrumah.
Reitsch was born in Hirschberg, Silesia, on 29 March 1912 to an upper-middle-class family. She was daughter of Dr. Wilhelm (Willy) Reitsch, who was an ophthalmology clinic manager, and his wife Emy Helff-Hibler von Alpenheim, who was a member of the Austrian nobility. Despite her mother being a devout Catholic, Hanna was raised a Protestant. She had two siblings, brother Kurt, a naval Fregattenkapitän (frigate captain), and younger sister Heidi. Reitsch began flight training in 1932 at the School of Gliding in Grunau. While a medical student in Berlin, she enrolled in a German Air Mail amateur flying school for powered aircraft at Staaken, training in a Klemm Kl 25.
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Current items with a signature of Hanna Reitsch
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Traded items with a signature of Hanna Reitsch
The most expensive item with a signature of Hanna Reitsch (Hanna Reitsch signed photo and book "Flying Is My Life") was sold in September 2025 for £334.52 while the cheapest item (RAF Signed Cover TP15b - Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch) found a new owner for £1.34 in April 2014. The month with the most items sold (3) was November 2018 with an average selling price of £36.89 for an autographed item of Hanna Reitsch. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in November 2016 with £89.99 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £1.34 was April 2014. In average, an autographed item from Hanna Reitsch is worth £18.97.
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| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | 1981 Flugkapitan Hanna Reitsch cover signed by Hanna Reitsch. | £3.20 |  |
| AUTOGRAPH - HANNA REITSCH, GERMAN AVIATRIX - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION COVER 1973 | £50.00 | |
 | Focke-Wulf Chief Test Pilot GERD ACHGELIS Signed Hanna Reitsch RAF Cover | £10.94 | |
| Focke-Wulf Chief Test Pilot GERD ACHGELIS Signed Hanna Reitsch RAF Cover | £9.99 | |
| Hanna Reitsch Signed Book Flying Is My Love | £75.99 | |
| HANNA REITSCH Signed First Day Cover 1977 Hitler Jet Test Pilot WW2 Germany | £13.24 | |
| RAF SIGNED FIRST DAY COVER FDC COVER SIGNED HANNA REITSCH TEST PILOT | £3.40 | |
| TP15c Flown Test Pilot Hanna Reitsch Signed Gerd Achgelis | £10.95 | |
| TP15c Flown Test Pilot Hanna Reitsch Signed Gerd Achgelis German Test Pilot | £8.95 | |
| TP15c Flown Test Pilot Hanna Reitsch Signed Gerd Achgelis German Test Pilot | £5.95 | |
| TP15c Hanna Reitsch Cover Signed Ivonette Wright - Miller Orville Wright nieces | £22.95 | |
| TP15cK Hanna Reitsch Cover Signed Gerd Achgelis Otto Kutzner Luftwaffe Pilots | £15.95 | |
| TP15cK Hanna Reitsch Cover Signed Gerd Achgelis Otto Kutzner Luftwaffe Pilots | £15.95 | |
 | WWII Ace HEINZ KNOKE KC & GERD ACHGELIS Signed Hanna Reitsch RAF Rossbach Cover | £32.94 | |
| WWII Ace HEINZ KNOKE KC & GERD ACHGELIS Signed Hanna Reitsch RAF Rossbach Cover | £29.99 | |
