Rumpler Luftverkehr
The Rumpler Luftverkehrs AG was one of the first civil aviation companies in Germany. The company was founded in 1919 and existed as a stock corporation from 1922 to 1926.
prehistory
Edmund Rumpler built some very successful reconnaissance aircraft in Berlin-Johannisthal and Augsburg during the First World War , which were called Rumpler C-types . Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , Germany was prohibited from owning and building military aircraft. The Allies also demanded the dismantling of the Rumpler factory in Berlin , which has since been in liquidation , but continued to produce as a supplier. In 1919, a department of the Bavarian Rumpler Works was created in Augsburg under the name Rumpler-Luftverkehr . This department operated under the direction of the later MAN director Otto Meyer with a total of 17 aircraft, including 13 modified Rumpler CI . In March of the same year, the company received its fourth license for a civil aviation company from the Reich Air Office . The route network comprised the lines Berlin – Leipzig and Leipzig – Munich – Augsburg, on which from June 1919 up to three passengers could be carried daily.
Foundation of the stock corporation
On September 30, 1922, the air traffic department of the Rumpler-Werke in Munich was transferred to a stock corporation and entered in the commercial register on November 30, 1922 . The main shareholders were the Rumpler-Werke Berlin-Johannisthal iL , the Bayerische Rumpler-Werke and the Junkers Flugzeugwerk , Dessau . The Rumpler-Werke brought 6 Rumpler CI and two Junkers F 13 into the company, while Junkers and two other shareholders contributed the capital totaling 500,000 paper marks. Board members were Edmund Rumpler (chairman), Hugo Junkers (deputy chairman) and the directors Albert Mühlig-Hofmann , Albert Albeck and Gottfried Kaufmann.
Destinations
The route Munich – Nuremberg / Fürth – Dessau – Berlin was served, through cooperation with the Swiss Ad Astra Aero and the Österreichische Luftverkehrs AG , continuous connections from Berlin to Zurich and Vienna were created.
In the course of 1923, the company generated high debts, among other things caused by two crash landings of the two Junkers F 13. Regular flight operations could not be maintained. At the end of 1923 Rumpler Luftverkehr joined the Transeuropa-Union (TREU), a cooperation between the southern German, Austrian and Swiss airlines under the leadership of Junkers Luftverkehr AG . The Munich – Berlin route was served with the two Junkers F 13s. In 1924 the route network was expanded to include the Frankfurt am Main – Nürnberg / Fürth – Munich line.
liquidation
The management did not succeed in leading the company into profitability. After losses of over 10,000 Reichsmarks had to be reported again for 1925 , the shareholders agreed on the liquidation in July 1926; the remaining aircraft were sold to Deutsche Luft Hansa .
See also
Web links
- Rob Mulder, Air Traffic with Rumpler-Werke AG, europeanairlines.no (engl.)
- When flying was still pretty uncomfortable
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine, November 25, 2009
- ^ Albert Fischer: Air traffic between market and power (1919–1937) , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, 2003 p. 48. ISBN 3-515-08277-8
- ↑ Junkers F 13 in world air traffic / Switzerland . Archived from the original on March 2, 2012.
