Aircraft construction Friedrichshafen
| Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH (FF) | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | June 17, 1912 |
| resolution | 1923 |
| Seat | Friedrichshafen , Germany |
| management | Karl Gehlen (chief engineer) |
| Number of employees | 3,240 (1918) |
| Branch | Aircraft manufacturer |
The aircraft Friedrichshafen GmbH , abbreviated Friedrichshafen or FF , was a major manufacturer of large German bombers and seaplanes in the First World War .
history
The company was founded on June 17, 1912 in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance by Theodor Kober with a capital of ℳ 372,000. a. supported by Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin , who also contributed financially to the company as a promoter of aviation. Kober initially took over the old Zeppelin hall in Manzell as a production facility. Later he built a branch in Warnemünde and a production facility for swimmers in Weingarten . At the end of the First World War, FF had a workforce of 3,240 employees.
Aircraft developments
Initially, the company produced seaplanes based on the model of Curtiss , the then leading company for "hydroplanes", took on its own developments under the direction of chief engineer Karl Gehlen and finally also built large bombers and other land planes based on its own designs. After the war, the company had to give up aircraft construction. The production facilities in Manzell were taken over by the Dornier works in 1923 .
Friedrichshafen was a leader in the delivery of sea combat aircraft that were deployed from German naval aviation stations over the North Sea and the Baltic Sea . In addition, the large twin-engined G.III bomber proved its worth in frontline operations.
Seaplanes
- 1913: Friedrichshafen FF 17 seaplane
- 1914: Friedrichshafen FF 19 seaplane
- 1914: Friedrichshafen FF 21 flying boat
- 1914: Friedrichshafen FF 27 seaplane
- 1914/15: Friedrichshafen FF 29 seaplane
- 1915: Friedrichshafen FF 31 sea combat aircraft
- 1915/16: Friedrichshafen FF 33 sea combat aircraft
- 1916: Friedrichshafen FF 24 maritime patrol aircraft
- 1916: Friedrichshafen FF 35 torpedo aircraft
- 1916: Friedrichshafen FF 40 sea combat aircraft
- 1916: Friedrichshafen FF 41 sea combat aircraft
- 1916: Friedrichshafen FF 43 sea fighter plane
- 1917: Friedrichshafen FF 39 combat aircraft
- 1917: Friedrichshafen FF 44 sea combat aircraft
- 1917: Friedrichshafen FF 48 sea combat aircraft
- 1917: Friedrichshafen FF 49 sea combat aircraft
- 1918: Friedrichshafen FF 53 torpedo aircraft
- 1918: Friedrichshafen FF 59 sea combat aircraft
- 1918: Friedrichshafen FF 60 large seaplane
- 1918: Friedrichshafen FF 63 sea combat aircraft
- 1918: Friedrichshafen FF 64
Armed reconnaissance aircraft
- 1916: Friedrichshafen CI reconnaissance aircraft (FF 37)
bomber
- 1915: Friedrichshafen GI Bomber (FF 30)
- 1916: Friedrichshafen G.II Bomber (FF 38)
- 1917: Friedrichshafen G.III Bomber (FF 45)
- 1918: Friedrichshafen G.IV Bomber (FF 62)
- 1918: Friedrichshafen GV Bomber
- 1918: Friedrichshafen NI night bomber
Fighter planes
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- 1916: Friedrichshafen DI single-seater hunting (FF 46)
- 1917: Friedrichshafen D.II hunting single- seater
See also
literature
- Seeblatt - daily and announcement sheet of the city of Friedrichshafen , No. 138, Thursday, June 20, 1912.
- Günter Kroschel; Helmut Stützer: The German military aircraft 1910–1918. Lohse-Eissing, Wilhelmshaven 1977, ISBN 3-920602-18-8 .
- Heinz Nowarra: The Development of Airplanes 1914-18. Munich 1959.
- Siegfried Borzutzki: Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH - graduate engineer Theodor Kober. Berlin 1993.
Web links
- Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen ( Memento from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aviation by Oskar Ursinus - Complete year 1912 as digital full text | Aviation Aviation Aviation Aviation Air Force. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
- ↑ Bruno Lange: Type manual of German aviation technology . In: German aviation . tape 9 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1986, ISBN 3-7637-5284-6 , p. 56 .