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Beate Uhse-Rotermund

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The Resume

    (October 25, 1919-July 16, 2001)
    Born in Cranz, East Prussia (now Zelenogradsk, Russia)
    Birth name was Beate Kostlin
    Stunt pilot in the 1930s
    Served with a Luftwaffe transport unit during World War II
    Founded the Beate Uhse Mail Order Company to sell condoms and books about sexuality and contraception (1951)
    Opened the world’s first sex store (1962)
    Company Beate Uhse AG was listed on the German stock exchange (1999)
    Largest adult entertainment company in the world, with sales of 280 million euros (2004)

Why she might be annoying:

    She was so obsessed about flying growing up that she glued chicken feathers together into wings and jumped off the roof of the house.
    As a former Luftwaffe member, she was not allowed to work as a pilot after WWII.
    She initially made a living on the black market.
    Her store was indicted 2,000 times for offenses against ‘public morality.’

Why she might not be annoying:

    Her first husband was a pilot who died in a plane crash in World War II.
    When Berlin was surrounded by the Soviet army, she escaped with her son, their nanny and two wounded soldiers in a type of plane she had never flown before.
    She began distributing pamphlets with information about contraception after learning how little most German women knew about the subject.
    Stock certificates for Beate Uhse AG became popular collector items because they depict two nearly naked women.
    She received the German Cross of Merit (1989).

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 8 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 17 Votes: 58.82% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 15 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 24 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 22 Votes: 36.36% Annoying