# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kathe-paulus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:32:45.436Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kathe-paulus"
name: "Käthe Paulus"
slug: "kathe-paulus"
description: "Katharina \"Käthe\" Paulus was a German exhibition parachute jumper and the inventor of the first collapsible parachute. At the time, 1910, the parachute was named \"rescue apparatus for aeronauts\". The previous parachutes were not able to fit in a case like apparatus worn on the back, thus Paulus' invention became of paramount importance for the Germans in the First World War and she produced about 7,000 parachutes for the German forces. During the First World War, Paulus created approximately 125 parachutes a week. She was also credited with inventing the \"drag 'chute\", an intentional breakaway system where one small parachute opens to pull out the main parachute."
tagline: "German exhibition parachute jumper and inventor of first collapsable parachute (1868–1935)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/K%C3%A4the_Paulus_ca._1890_Fotomontage_3256644_1450825047-e1450825180454.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1868-12-22"
deathDate: "1935-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.42
  momentum:             1.368715083798883
  historical:           6.629304
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Käthe Paulus"
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    title: "كاترينا باولوس"
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    title: "كاترينا بولس"
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  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Paulus"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Paulus"
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Paulus"
    title: "Käthe Paulus"
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  - url: "https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina_Paulus"
    title: "Katharina Paulus"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Paulus"
    title: "Käthe Paulus"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump