Paris Aviation Agreement

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The Paris Aviation Agreement of October 13, 1919 was the first international aviation agreement to regulate aviation.

Paris Aviation Agreement of October 13, 1919

With the Paris Aviation Agreement of 1919, on the occasion of the peace conference in Paris , an attempt was made for the first time to coordinate the various national requirements for regulating air traffic. The agreement was drawn up by the victorious powers of the First World War . The agreement was signed by 26 of the 32 allied states (but not by the USA): Belgium , Bolivia , Brazil , United Kingdom , China , Cuba , Ecuador , France , Greece , Guatemala , Haiti , Hejaz , Honduras , Italy , Japan , Liberia , Nicaragua , Panama , Peru , Poland , Portugal , Romania , the Kingdom of Yugoslavia , Siam , Czechoslovakia and Uruguay . The agreement was ultimately ratified by 11 states, including Persia , which was not originally one of the signatories. The agreement came into force in 1922 and was replaced by the Chicago Agreement in 1944 .

Paris Aviation Agreement of May 21, 1926

After the First World War, Germany had to surrender its entire inventory of military aircraft due to the Treaty of Versailles and it was prohibited from manufacturing new military aircraft or military aircraft types. Private companies were allowed to manufacture civil aircraft, but the size of the aircraft and the scope of the aircraft industry were significantly limited by the contract.

In the Paris Aviation Agreement of May 21, 1926, Germany achieved the withdrawal of these restrictions in the field of civil aviation. Thereupon, heavy investments were made in civil aviation, in particular through the merger of Deutsche Aero Lloyd with Junkers Luftverkehr on January 6, 1926 to form “Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft” ( Lufthansa ), at that time the largest aviation company in the world.

The use of an air force remained forbidden . The number of members of the Reichswehr who were allowed to fly sports pilots for “private reasons” was therefore intensely discussed. The victorious powers initially allowed 15, while the Reichswehr demanded 200. In the end, they agreed on 72.

literature

  • Nikolas von Wrangell: Development from 1919 to 1944 . In: Globalization tendencies in international air traffic . Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 978-3-631-33580-2 , pp. 27-32 .
  • Peter Szarafinski: Armaments and the political system. Using the example of air armaments during the Third Reich and the United States from 1933 to 1942 (=  History . No. 25 ). Tectum, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8288-6136-7 , pp. 28-31 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz Budraß : Aircraft Industry and Air Armament in Germany 1918–1945 . Droste, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 978-3-7700-1604-4 , p. 217 .