Schütte-Lanz

Airship construction Schütte-Lanz ; Finnforest Schütte-Lanz GmbH
legal form	Company with limited liability
founding	April 22, 1909
resolution	Late 2007
Seat	Mannheim - Rheinau , Brühl , Germany
management	Karl Lanz; Johann Schütte;
Branch	Airship construction , aircraft manufacturers , automobile manufacturers

The company Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz was involved in the construction of airships , and later also airplanes and automobiles. It was Ferdinand von Zeppelin's greatest competition in the field of rigid airship construction before and during the First World War . Although the Schütte-Lanz airships were superior to the zeppelins in many ways, the airship builder was never able to celebrate Zeppelin's successes.

history

The company was founded by the industrialist Karl Lanz and the engineer Johann Schütte on April 22, 1909 in Rheinau . The production facility was relocated to Brühl near Mannheim and was later expanded to include another plant in Zeesen and Leipzig. The main difference between the airships and those of the Zeppelin type lay in their construction material. The frame was made of wood. Only later were four transport airships and one research airship planned for the post-war period , which, like the Zeppelin airships, were to have a duraluminium skeleton.

Until then, however, Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz had only manufactured military airships .

From April 1, 1916 to April 15, 1925, there was a branch in Zeesen in Brandenburg with its own airship yard and aircraft construction. For this purpose, the aircraft construction department was relocated from the main plant in Mannheim-Rheinau to Zeesen in spring 1916. A total of three airships and over 500 aircraft were built in Zeesen. After the First World War, production had to be stopped in 1921 in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Treaty . This meant the end of the airship construction company, and Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz was dissolved in mid-1925.

Share of more than 1,000 marks in Schütte-Lanz-Werke AG in Zeesen on August 11, 1923

From 1920 to 1924. A spinoff built, the Schütte-Lanz-Werke AG in Zeesen , bodies of automobiles under the name SL 1922 to 1924 was also a passenger car with a 4/14 hp engine, under the name Schütte-Lanz was offered .

It was possible to transfer the technological experience from airship construction to other business areas, mainly in plywood construction . By the end of 2007, the company was as Finnforest Schütte-Lanz GmbH , headquartered in Bruehl near Mannheim on boarding plates specialized. After the end of operations, the production facilities were dismantled. The site is currently being marketed under the name "Gewerbepark Schütte-Lanz". The last remaining listed halls from 1911 are now waiting for better times. On October 11, 2013 the chimney was blown up because the future traders did not want a chimney.

In Berlin-Lichterfelde , the former Steinstrasse has been called Schütte-Lanz-Strasse since 1933 . There is the Lilienthalpark with the Lilienthal monument .

At the former location in Zeesen, the “Schütte-Lanz Gewerbepark” is a reminder of the former production site. The last buildings in the plant were demolished in March 2013.

Airships

For airship types, built and planned airships, see the list of Schütte-Lanz airships .

Planes

designation	Intended use	Construction year
Schütte-Lanz DI	Fighter plane	1915
Schütte-Lanz D.III		1916
Schütte-Lanz Dr. I.		1916
Schütte-Lanz D.IV		1917
Schütte-Lanz D.VI		1917
Schütte-Lanz D.VII		1918
Schütte-Lanz GI	bomber	1915
Schütte-Lanz G.III
Schütte-Lanz G.IV
Schütte-Lanz GV
Schütte-Lanz CI	spotter	1915
Schütte-Lanz RI	bomber	1918

literature

Dr. Ing. E. H. Johann Schütte: Der Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz 1909–1925 , published by R. Oldenbourg, Munich / Berlin 1926; here: Reprint from 1984, published by Johann Friedrich Jahn, Oldenburg iO
Dorothea Haaland: The airship construction Schütte-Lanz - Mannheim-Rheinau (1909-1925) . Dissertation. In: Südwestdeutsche Schriften (4); Institute for cultural studies and regional research at the University, Mannheim 1987, ISBN 3-87804-186-1
Sebastian Wentzler: The Schütte-Lanz innovations - technical innovations in airship construction Schütte-Lanz between 1909 and 1914 compared to airship construction Zeppelin , BIS Verlag, Oldenburg 2000, ISBN 3-8142-0718-1 ( online , PDF; 991 kB)
Sonja Steiner-Welz: Schütte-Lanz aircraft from Mannheim . Volume 1. Reinhard Welz Vermittler Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-936041-94-6
Ludwig Friedrich, Hans Weihe: Schütte-Lanz. From airship to plywood . In: Verein für Heimat- und Customsflege Brühl / Rohrhof (ed.): Brühl and Rohrhof: Das Heimatbuch . Bruehl 2007
J. Bleibler: Rigid Airship Projects in Germany 1908 to 1914 . In: W. Meighörner (Ed.): Airships that were never built . Friedrichshafen 2002, pp. 31-53.
The dream of flying Johann Schütte-A pioneer of airship travel . various authors, Isense Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-89598-693-3
In the shadow of the titan Schütte-Lanz; various authors. Verlag Robert Gessler, Friedrichshafen 2001, ISBN 3-86136-063-2
Germany's war in the air . Ernst von Hoeppner, Berlin 1921
Werner Oswald : German Cars 1920–1945 . 10th edition. Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-87943-519-7 , pp. 456 and 522 (automobiles and bodies from Schütte-Lanz-Werke AG)
Heinz Nowarra : The Development of Airplanes 1914-18 . Munich 1959
Ulrich Boeyng: Gigantic halls for the "giants of the air" (Part I). Early evidence of airship travel in Baden-Württemberg In: Denkmalpflege in Baden-Württemberg , Vol. 43 No. 1 2014, pp. 16–21 ( online , PDF; 275 kB)

Web links

Commons : Schütte-Lanz - Collection of images, videos and audio files

The army's airship weapon . ( Memento of June 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Book in PDF documents

Individual evidence

^ Foundation of the company Artikel des Mannheimer Morgen on July 5, 2013
^ Airship yard Schütte-Lanz in Brühl. Rhein-Neckar industrial culture, accessed on February 8, 2015 .
^ History of Heinrich Lanz AG
↑ Bleibler, J. (2002): Starrluftschiffprojekte in Germany 1908 to 1914, in: Meighörner, W. (Ed.): Airships that were never built, Friedrichshafen, p. 31
↑ morgenweb.de
↑ Schütte-Lanz-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )

49.408611111111 8.5377777777778Coordinates: 49 ° 24 ′ 31 ″ N , 8 ° 32 ′ 16 ″ E

[1] Foundation of the company Artikel des Mannheimer Morgen on July 5, 2013

[2] Airship yard Schütte-Lanz in Brühl. Rhein-Neckar industrial culture, accessed on February 8, 2015 .

[3] History of Heinrich Lanz AG

[4] Bleibler, J. (2002): Starrluftschiffprojekte in Germany 1908 to 1914, in: Meighörner, W. (Ed.): Airships that were never built, Friedrichshafen, p. 31

[5] rgenweb.de

[6] Schütte-Lanz-Strasse. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near Kaupert )