Some about Calma's husband Max Schnirring:
Schnirring was born in Untertürkheim in 1895 and he got his pilot license at the age of 19 in July 1914.
He trained to pilot at FMF(Johannisthal), at least from 17 Feb 15 with the rank Bootsmannsmaat. Later on at 25 May 15 he received the Landfliegerabzeichen, now with the rank OberBootsmannsmaat. Apparently in late Sep 1915 he joined "new" Land Flieger Abteilung II in Flanders, but it seems that he was sent back to J-thal in Oct 1915. With the creation of Marine aviation ranks he become FlugOberMaat in Nov 1915.
On 9 Mar 16 he rejoined his unit in Flanders which now had been renamed to MFFA II...here he was promoted to Flugmeister on 20 May 16. He received the EKII on 10 Apr 16 and stayed in MFFA II until 8 Jan 17 when he was posted back to J-thal. He only stayed shortly here as he was posted to LFS Tondern on 20 Jan 17. He stayed at Tondern until 14 Jun 17 when he was posted to Land FlugStationen Schlüterhof (eastern front; outside the town Tukkum, and lies west of Riga). Meanwhile he had been promoted further to OberFlugmeister (pretty rare) on 29 May 17.
I dont knew how long he stayed at Schlüterhof, but sometimes during the later part of 1917 he had been transferred back to J-thal as flying instructor
It seems that he stayed rather long at J-thal as teacher, but on 7 Nov 18 he was posted further to Kampf Einsitzer Schule Langfuhr. Also, in WW1, he flew with Baron von Richtofen.
After the war, he went to work for the aviation industry, including as a Lufthansa pilot. He flew with a radio operator and mechanic board in May 1938 with the float plane Arado Ar 95 V-3, marks D-ODGY, Warnemünde along the Baltic coast after Helsingfors in 3 hours and 50 minutes.
On 21.06.1938 with the mechanic Mr Bock in Arado Ar 79 a speed of 228.89 km / a World Record light aircraft. On the same day, a new World record for singles in the Light aircraft category with a speed of 229.74 km with a Arado Ar 79
In 1939 Schnirring was in Quintero near Valparaiso, Chile and trained the native pilots on the nine Arado 95 that were bought by Chile. His daughter Calma was born there. Max was given the title "Capitän de Aviación de Chile". After that he worked as a pilot instructor in Brandenburg-Briest at the "Fluglehrerschule der Luftwaffe" and as a Testpilot for Arado in Brandenburg-Neuhof.
During his trials, he crashed flights from four times without much damage. On 06.Juli 1944 during a test flight from the Warnemünder Arado-Werk he crashed in a field near Parow. A day later, he died in hospital Stralsund.
In 2007 his body was either buried in a war grave, or a memorial service held, at a war cemetery at the chapel of Parow with daughters Calma and Dagmar present.
(information courtesy of a forum on aeroplanes and other sites)
