Reich Air Office
The Reichsluftamt was the first authority to regulate civil air traffic in the German Reich from 1918 to 1920. The agency was based at Wilhelmstrasse 72 in Berlin .
history
The office was founded on December 4, 1918 by a decree of the Reich Office of the Interior . August Euler , the holder of the first German pilot's license, who received the rank of Undersecretary of State , was appointed as the first director . The Reich Air Office was responsible, among other things, for the issuing of registration certificates for civil airlines and the issuing of German aircraft registration numbers .
In the early months, the competencies of the Reich Air Office were not yet clearly regulated, as the relevant implementing provisions had not been passed. Originally, the office was planned as a central authority for the aviation offices of the federal states, which should carry out the approval of the airlines themselves and should only grant the Reichsluftamt a veto right. Bavaria and Saxony in particular insisted on exercising their sovereign rights in the respective airspace. Only the Weimar constitution gave the German Reich sole responsibility for civil aviation .
By June 12, 1919, the Reichsluftamt issued 15 registration certificates for civil airlines. The first approval went to the Deutsche Luft-Reederei in Berlin on January 8, 1919 .
On January 3, 1920, the Reich Air Office was incorporated into the Reich Ministry of Transport as a department for air and motor vehicles .
literature
- Albert Fischer (2003): Air traffic between market and power (1919–1937): Lufthansa, air traffic and the struggle for monopoly. Franz Steiner Verlag, VSWG-Beihefte 167, pp. 35-37.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Günter Frost: Registration and Identification of German Civil Aircraft 1914–1945: 2. The provisional identification of the year 1919. Revised version of the first publication in Luftfahrt International No. 7/1980.
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 55 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 52 ″ E