German air traffic

Deutsche Verkehrsflug AG
	; An M18b from Nordbayerischen Verkehrsflug GmbH
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Founding:	1926
Operation stopped:	1934
Seat:	Fürth , German Empire;
Company form:	Corporation
Passenger volume:	13,680 (1930)
Freight volume:	15,800 kg (1930)
Fleet size:	22 (1930)
Aims:	National
	Deutsche Verkehrsflug AG ceased operations in 1934. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

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Hermann Köhl with his wife and Theo Croneis 1930 at the Fürth-Atzenhof airfield in front of a Messerschmitt M 18

The German transport air AG is a former German airline in Fuerth .

history

The aviator Theodor Croneiß founded the “Sportflug GmbH for Middle Franconia and Upper Palatinate” in 1924 by transforming the “Working Group for the Promotion of Aviation and Aviation Technology in Middle Franconia and Upper Palatinate”. The entry in the commercial register took place on December 6th. From it, the Nordbayerische Verkehrsflug GmbH was formed on March 25, 1926 with start-up capital of 50,000 RM in order to be able to serve regional routes in which Lufthansa was not interested. Theodor Croneiß was appointed managing director. On December 23, 1930, at a general meeting of the supervisory board, it was decided to transform the company into "Deutsche Verkehrsflug AG". The name change came into effect on January 17th of the following year. The reason was an increase in capital by 500,000 RM, which had become necessary due to financial mismanagement, which resulted in the participation of shareholders from other parts of the country, so that as a result, not only routes in Bavaria but throughout Germany were flown. Since 1929 Ernst Kredel jun. the administrative management of Deutsche Verkehrsflug AG.

The company's success was based primarily on the fact that it offered cheaper tickets than Lufthansa and required fewer subsidies than Lufthansa. In terms of corporate strategy, Croneiß primarily focused on taking care of short-haul routes within Germany . The fate of commercial flight was closely linked to that of Messerschmitt AG : In 1924, Croneiß provided Willy Messerschmitt, who was then in financial difficulties, with the means to build his first M17 and M18 aircraft. Deutsche Verkehrsflug took 19 copies of the latter.

During the Great Depression, from 1930 onwards, commercial flights came to the fore. This was mainly due to the fact that, although it needed less subsidies than Luft Hansa, its subsidy providers were not the Reich and its countries, which could pay reliably even in the crisis, but private financiers who had to massively reduce their subsidy payments during the crisis .

From 1931 onwards, the commercial flight posted correspondingly high losses, but could still survive. In 1934, however, Verkehrsflug AG was liquidated at the instigation of Aviation Minister Hermann Göring and his State Secretary Erhard Milch , who was also a member of the Lufthansa Executive Board, because the model for aviation in the German Reich that these two had in mind provided for only one airline. In 1934 it was dissolved by the Reich Ministry of Transport by resolution of March 28, and flight operations had already ceased in the winter of 1933/1934.

fleet

The fleet in the times of Nordbayerische Verkehrsflug GmbH consisted of the following aircraft:

1 Dietrich DS I
1 Udet U 8
1 Udet U 8b
1 Junkers F 13da
1 Messerschmitt M17 (can be seen today with the original lettering in the Deutsches Museum in Munich)
4 Messerschmitt M18a
10 Messerschmitt M18b
5 Messerschmitt M18d
1 Messerschmitt M24a
1 Focke-Wulf A 20 hawk
2 Focke-Wulf A 32 Bussard

After conversion, the fleet consisted of these aircraft:

1 Junkers F 13da
13 Messerschmitt M18b
5 Messerschmitt M18d
1 Messerschmitt M24a
1 Focke-Wulf A 20
2 Focke-Wulf A 32 Bussard
1 Junkers A 50ci (can be seen today with the original lettering in the Deutsches Museum in Munich)

literature

Albert Fischer: Air traffic between market and power (1919–1937): Lufthansa, air traffic and the struggle for monopoly. Issue 167 of quarterly for social and economic history: supplements. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-515-08277-8 , ISBN 978-3-515-08277-8 ( Online at Google Books. )
Karl-Dieter Seifert: German air traffic 1926–1945 - on the way to world traffic. In: Die deutsche Luftfahrt , Volume 28. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7637-6118-7 .

Web links

Literature at the DNB

Individual evidence

^ Wolfgang Wagner: The German air traffic: the pioneering years 1919-1925. Volume 1. Bernard & Graefe, 1987. ISBN 3-7637-5274-9 , ISBN 978-3-7637-5274-4 . Entry on foundation on Google Books (p. 294)
↑ NORDBAYERISCHER VERKEHRSFLUG GMBH (1926-1931) AND DEUTSCHER VERKEHRSFLUG AG (1931-1934). http://www.europeanairlines.no , June 17, 2010, accessed on November 2, 2017 (English).
^ Albert Fischer: Air traffic between market and power (1919–1937): Lufthansa, air traffic and the struggle for monopoly. Franz Steiner Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-515-08277-8 , p. 71 ff.

[1] Wolfgang Wagner: The German air traffic: the pioneering years 1919-1925. Volume 1. Bernard & Graefe, 1987. ISBN 3-7637-5274-9 , ISBN 978-3-7637-5274-4 . Entry on foundation on Google Books (p. 294)

[2] NORDBAYERISCHER VERKEHRSFLUG GMBH (1926-1931) AND DEUTSCHER VERKEHRSFLUG AG (1931-1934). http://www.europeanairlines.no , June 17, 2010, accessed on November 2, 2017 (English).

[3] Albert Fischer: Air traffic between market and power (1919–1937): Lufthansa, air traffic and the struggle for monopoly. Franz Steiner Verlag 2003, ISBN 3-515-08277-8 , p. 71 ff.