German air shipping company

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A DLR LVG C.VI with Hans Albers as a passenger, 1919
Airmail transport between Berlin and Weimar , February 1919
AEG J.II cabin with the license plate "DLR 36" and Otto Firle's "Kranich" on the rudder, around 1920

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 .

Advertising poster from 1919 for the first sightseeing flights with the DLR over Potsdam and the Märkische Seengebiet ;
Designed by Hans Rudi Erdt

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

"Crane" in the Lufthansa logo from 2018

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

Revers of postcard No. 1848 : “Sole wholesale sales [...] for Hanover , Hildesheim u. Steinhuder Meer ”by the Hannover Art Publishing House Heinrich Carle
Leporello with 24 aerial photographs of the DLR of Dresden from a height of 200 meters

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

Web links

Commons : Deutsche Luft-Reederei  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Stephan Prager : Organizations after the First World War , in which: Das deutsche Luftbildwesen… (see literature), pp. 18–21.
  2. Compare this information, for example