Hansa aerial view

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Hansa Luftbild AG
legal form Corporation
founding 1923
Seat Muenster
Branch Geographic information , aerial photo
Website www.hansaluftbild.de

The Hansa Luftbild has an international focus, geo - service for aerial photographs , sensor Flights , software development , analysis and advice about space planning. The company is based in Münster .

history

Aerial photo from the time of the Weimar Republic : Wildenburg Castle in the Eifel in 1932

The company originally goes back to the aerial photography department of the Deutsche Luft-Reederei founded in 1919 . After DLR merged to form Deutsche Aero Lloyd in 1923, Aero Lloyd Luftbild GmbH was founded in Berlin on December 31, 1923 . In 1926 Deutsche Aero Lloyd and Junkers Luftverkehr AG , which also had an aerial photography department with Junkers Luftbild-Zentrale, merged to form Deutsche Lufthansa AG . Accordingly, Aero Lloyd Luftbild was transformed into Hansa Luftbild as a subsidiary on June 29, 1926 . On January 1, 1934, Hansa Luftbild took over the major aerial photography companies that were established in Germany after the First World War, which in fact led to the centralization of civil aerial photography.

The main tasks at the time were above all aerial photography for official cartography in Germany and participation in larger development projects outside of the German Reich. In the 1930s, for example , the company carried out measurement image flights in the Republic of China , in 1932 in Greenland and in 1938 and 1939 as part of the German Antarctic Expedition . Because of this research, geographic features found in the Antarctic , which still bear the names of personalities of the company so named after the first Hansa Luftbild boss, Gessner peak and after the photographers and surveyors Max Bundermann named Bundermannkette .

After the Second World War , the Allied controlling powers dissolved the company in 1945. The company's headquarters were later relocated from Berlin to Munster in West Germany , and after the restrictions on civil aviation in Germany were lifted, Hansa Luftbild was able to resume its aerial photography and analysis. Especially since the economic miracle in the 1950s and especially in the 1960s, the data collected by Hansa Luftbild provided the basis for planning large infrastructure projects in West Germany, for example for highways and other road construction , railway guides and waterways as well as pipelines or for the Routing of high voltage lines .

From the 1970s, the focus was increasingly on collecting data for environmental protection . To determine damage to the environment, for studies of vegetation and environmental impact assessments which won Electronic data processing (EDP) and the digitization is becoming increasingly important. For example, Hansa Luftbild began developing its own software and increasingly concentrated on optimizing business processes for clients from business and administration.

While the German reunification in the 1990s mainly took aerial photographs and collected other data for the expansion and renewal of the infrastructure in East Germany , for urban and regional planning and for environmental protection measures, international projects in particular gained in importance with the globalization that began at the same time . In the last decade of the 20th century, the transition from the analog to the digital age also began at Hansa Luftbild GmbH . This enabled new processes such as airborne laser scanning and digital photography to be applied, and software was developed for comprehensive business processes.

Hansa Luftbild Prize

On the occasion of the company's 50th anniversary, Hansa Luftbild donated for the first time in 1973 and since then an annual prize worth the equivalent of 1,500 euros "for a particularly valuable contribution to the organ of the German Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing , the magazine Photogrammetrie - Fernerkundung - Geoinformation ". The award ceremony takes place during a celebration during the photogrammetric week or during the general meeting of the German Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.

literature

  • M. Kneißl: 25 years of Hansa-Luftbild GmbH In: Communications from the Chief of War, Maps and Surveying , Volume 3, Issue 5, May 1944, pp. 228–230
  • Bruno Weist: 40 years of Hansa Luftbild GmbH , in: Aerial photo and aerial photo measurement , No. 2, November 1963
  • Stephan Prager : Das deutsche Luftbildwesen (= publications of the working group for research of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , issue 97), Cologne; Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1961

therein also:

  • Hugo Kasper: Die Technik des Luftbildwesens , Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 1961, ISBN 978-3-322-96146-4 and ISBN 3-322-96146-X
  • W. Blaschke: The function of aerial photography companies in German surveying , in: BuL , edition 5/1973, pp. 162-169.
  • R. Burckhardt: 50 years of Hansa Luftbild , in BuL , edition 1/1974, pp. 2–5
  • Jörg Albertz: Rudolf Fischer on the golden jubilee of his doctorate , in ZPF / Journal for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing , issue 5/1993, pp. 204–206; here: p. 205
  • Elke Dittrich: Tempelhof Airport. The film bunker and the history of Hansa Luftbild in Tempelhof , published by Tempelhof Projekt GmbH, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-9816412-0-2

Fonts

  • Aerial photograph and aerial photograph measurement , published from 1923 to 1944 in Berlin by Hansa Luftbild G. mb H. ( ZDB -ID 532172-4 )

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Thorsten Hanns (responsible): History / 90 years of Hansa Luftbild - 90 years of ideas and innovations on the website hansaluftbild.de
  2. ↑ a b Stephan Prager : Das deutsche Luftbildwesen , in: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschungs des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen , Volume 97, Westdeutscher Verlag , 1961, ISBN 9783322962829 , pp. 18-20 [1]
  3. ↑ Hansa Luftbild Prize


Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 3 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 1.8"  E