The sculpture "Dove" was created in 1971
Amelie Beese, born in Laubegast (Dresden) on September 13, 1886, came to Berlin-Johannisthal in 1910, where she became the first woman in Germany to take her pilot's license one year later with a Rumpler pigeon. She won all important prizes and flew already 1912 with 625 m a height world record. In 1912 she founded together with her future husband Charles de Boutard in Johannisthal a flight school and aircraft factory in which she designed the Melli Beese dove was built.
