Ruhr area airline
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| Founding: | 1925 |
| Operation stopped: | 1936 |
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Essen , Germany
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| Luftverkehrsgesellschaft Ruhrgebiet ceased operations in 1936. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
The Luftverkehrsgesellschaft Ruhrgebiet AG , LURAG for short , was one of the numerous airlines under the umbrella of Junkers -Luftverkehr based in Essen .
history
The company was founded on February 24, 1925 with a share capital of RM 2.5 million (divided into shares of RM 1,000 each, including 2,267 issued shares and 233 reserve shares ) and was equipped with ten aircraft (five each Junkers F 13 and five Junkers G 24 ). In 1926 LURAG merged with other companies to form Deutsche Luft Hansa AG . The LURAG aircraft became the property of Luft Hansa, and LURAG had a stake of 1.2 million RM in the total capital of 25 million RM of Deutsche Luft Hansa AG. The last annual report of LURAG dates from 1935 and the shareholders dissolved LURAG on April 1, 1936.
Destinations
The machines took off mainly from Essen / Mülheim airport and flew routes to Amsterdam, Berlin, Bremen, Wroclaw, Dresden, Erfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg, Kassel, Leipzig, Mannheim, Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart. Because of the occupation of the Ruhr from 1923 to 1925, LURAG had to move to an airfield north of Dorsten - Holsterhausen from May 10, 1925 to August 30, 1925 . In the occupied area and in the neutral zone, to which the Ruhr area belonged, air traffic was forbidden. This airfield was on the country road between Dorsten and Erle (today's Bundesstraße 224) in what was then Lembeck, about the border between Üfter Mark and Rhader Mark. On September 1, 1925, flight operations were relocated from Dorsten to Essen / Mülheim Airport. As early as December 23, 1925, LURAG's air traffic was discontinued at the instigation of the Reich Ministry of Transport in favor of Deutsche Luft Hansa AG, which was being founded (January 6, 1926). From October 5, 1927, three lines started from the Golzheimer Heide airfield , the recently opened Düsseldorf Airport , in the direction of Malmö , Berlin and Munich . LURAG airfields were Essen / Mülheim, Düsseldorf, Krefeld and the short-lived Duisburg water airport (summer 1927) for the Duisburg-Rotterdam route.