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Founded on August 31, 1881, the Deutsche Verein zur Förderung der Luftschifffahrt,[1] (Society for the Promotion of Aeronautics), was the first German aviation association.[2]

Founding

The motivation for the association arose from the experience of the massive French military balloon units during the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871. The association's objects were to promote airship flight by all means, as well as to work on solving the problem of building steerable airships, and especially to support a permanent research station.[2]

Journal

1882 title sheet of the association's technical journal

In 1882 the association started printing [Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins zur Förderung der Luftschifffahrt] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help), which was the first German technical aviation journal. In 1888 they printed under the title [Zeitschrift für Luftschifffahrt] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (Journal of airshipflight) and the Vienese flight association [Wiener Flugtechnische Verein] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) became co-editors. In 1892 the title changed to [Zeitschrift für Luftschifffahrt und Physik der Atmosphäre] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (Journal of airshipflight and atmospheric physics). In 1900 the association adopted the journal [Illustrierte Aeronautische Mitteilungen] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (illustrated aeronautical reports),[3] with the subtitle [Deutsche Zeitschrift für Luftschifffahrt] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (German journal of airshipflight).[2]

In 1903, after Germany saw the founding of numerous other aeronautical associations, it changed its name to [Berliner Verein für Luftschifffahrt] Error: {{Lang}}: text has italic markup (help) (Berlin association of airshipflight).[4]

Membership and activities

Among the members were: the airship pioneers Paul Haenlein, Friedrich Hermann Wölfert; the meteorologists Richard Aßmann, Arthur Berson and Reinhard Süring; the airship constructor Rudolf Hans Bartsch von Sigsfeld[2] and the flight researcher Otto Lilienthal.[4]

References

Notes
  1. ^ Schulz
  2. ^ a b c d Editors of German wikipedia
  3. ^ Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung e.V. Reinhard Süring and 1901 volume 4 documents the 1901-07-31 Berson and Süring ascent
  4. ^ a b Ballon-Club Berlin. Unsere Wurzeln liegen in der Geschichte. (German) Retrieved 2008-07-20
Bibliography
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