Reinhold Poss

Reinhold Poss (11 September 1897 – 26 August 1933) was a German flying ace and racing pilot.

Poss enlisted with the Imperial German Navy during World War I and scored eleven kills as a naval pilot.

He spent the final month of the war in a POW camp.

Following the war, Poss achieved further fame as a pilot, completing, with Hermann Köhl, the first night-time flight between Warnemünde and Stockholm, Sweden.

On 26 August 1933, Poss and his copilot, Paul Weirich, crashed after striking a church tower while flying near Neuruppin.