German air shipping company
The German air shipping company ( DLR ) was from 1917 until its merger with the Lloyd Air Service GmbH in 1923, the first with aircraft powered German airline and a forerunner of Lufthansa . Founded in 1909 in front of the DLR DELAG , the German Luftschiffahrts-stock company, operating the built by the Air Zeppelin GmbH traffic airships .
history
The origins in the First World War
Deutsche Luft-Reederei was founded as a military air transport company on December 13, 1917 in the middle of the First World War . The driving force was Walther Rathenau as chairman of the supervisory board of AEG . As more companies looked Hapag , Zeppelin airship and the German bank with.
Civil airline
After the company had received approval for civil air traffic on January 8, 1919, it began airmail service between Berlin and Weimar on February 6, 1919 . Home airfield was initially the airfield Johannisthal in Berlin-Johannisthal . In 1922 the company moved to the site of the former Zeppelin factory in Berlin-Staaken .
From March 1, 1919, passenger traffic from Berlin to Hamburg and Berlin to Warnemünde was taken up. On April 15, 1919, the Berlin – Gelsenkirchen route followed . There were also flights to the Leipziger Messe and seasonal traffic between Hamburg and Westerland . The first international route ran from Berlin via Hamburg and Bremen to Amsterdam .
The company was one of the founding members of the International Air Traffic Association on August 28, 1919 in The Hague, from which the International Air Transport Association (IATA) emerged in April 1945 in Havana, Cuba .
Fleet and staff
First converted war planes such as AEG J.II , LVG CV and LVG C.VI and former pilots of the air force (including Antonius Raab ) were used.
Mergers from 1923
On February 6, 1923, Deutsche Luft-Reederei and Lloyd Luftdienst GmbH merged to form Deutsche Aero Lloyd . In 1926 this in turn merged with Junkers Luftverkehr AG, which was founded in 1921, to form Deutsche Lufthansa AG .
Deutsche Luft-Reederei already had Otto Firle's stylized crane as its logo on its aircraft. The "Kranich" was taken over by Deutsche Aero Lloyd during the mergers in 1923 and by Lufthansa in 1926 and is still used today in almost unchanged form by the Lufthansa Group.
Aerial photography
From its history as a military air transport company, DLR had experience in aerial photography . In 1919 she established a civil aerial photography department in order to be economically active in this promising area.
From its airplanes in the air, DLR had aerial photographs taken from different heights. From these recordings a four digit number was sequentially numbered postcards in copper - gravure printing process . They were distributed, for example, by publishers such as the Hannoversche Kunstverlag Heinrich Carle , who had acquired the rights to the “sole wholesale distribution” for the reproduced recordings of Hanover , Hildesheim and the Steinhuder Meer .
After DLR merged to form Deutsche Aero Lloyd in 1923, Aero Lloyd Luftbild GmbH was founded on December 31, 1923 . This resulted in Hansa Luftbild in 1926 .
See also
Fonts
- One million kilometers of air traffic for DLR. Berlin, November 26, 1920 (writing with 40 partly folded sheets, partly with illustrations), Berlin: Deutsche Luft-Reederei, 1920
literature
- John Stroud: Wings of Peace - DLR. In: Airplane Monthly. March 17, 1989, ISSN 0143-7240 , pp. 176-182.
- Stephan Prager : The German aerial photography (= publications of the working group for research of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Issue 97). Westdeutscher Verlag , Wiesbaden 1961, ISBN 3-322-96146-X ; mostly online via Google books
- Jochen K. Beeck: Under the sign of the crane. Lufthansa aircraft 1926–2006. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-613-02668-6 .
- Achim Figgen and others: airliners . Bechtermünz-Verlag, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-5351-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Stephan Prager : Organizations after the First World War , in which: Das deutsche Luftbildwesen… (see literature), pp. 18–21.
- ↑ Compare this information, for example