Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954) was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the...

passengers and crew aboard. These included the Zeppelin Company chairman, Dr. Hugo Eckener, as commander, former World War I Zeppelin commander Lt. Col. Joachim...

Hugo Eckener, former head of the Zeppelin Company and the "old man" of German airships. In initial reports, before inspecting the accident, Eckener mentioned...

Lehmann the best airship pilot in the world, although he was criticized by Hugo Eckener for often making dangerous maneuvers that compromised the airships. He...

count (Graf) in the German nobility. It was conceived and operated by Hugo Eckener, the chairman of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. Graf Zeppelin made 590 flights...

"Imprint". Eurowings Discover. Retrieved 10 June 2023. EW Discover GmbH Hugo-Eckener-Ring 1 FAC, Building 234, D7.01 60549 Frankfurt handelsblatt.com (German)...

lost." Count von Zeppelin had died in 1917, before the end of the war. Hugo Eckener, who had long envisioned dirigibles as vessels of peace rather than of...

Zeppelin's death in 1917, control of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin fell to Dr. Hugo Eckener, an enthusiastic proponent of the civil value of airships. However, Germany's...

judoka from Vanuatu Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), German airship commander Hugo Ferreira de Farias (born 1997), Brazilian footballer Hugo Ferdinand Boss (1885–1948)...

Russia to Vancouver, Washington from 18–20 June 1937. On 11 October 1928, Hugo Eckener, commanding the airship Graf Zeppelin as part of DELAG's operations,...

chairman Hugo Eckener, who had intended to run against Hitler in the 1932 presidential election, was already disliked by the Nazis. When Eckener later resisted...

Swiss-Argentine horse rider from Buenos Aires to New York October 16 – Hugo Eckener and the crew of the Graf Zeppelin 1929 January 28 – Captain George Fried...

unfavorable wind conditions, resulting in damage to the lower fin. Infuriated, Hugo Eckener, Lehmann's superior in the Zeppelin Company, angrily berated him for...

Commercial Councillor 1917: Heinrich Schuldt, Town Councillor 1924: Hugo Eckener, Aviation pioneer 1930: Hermann Bendix Todsen, Oberbürgermeister 1999:...

LZ-1 (on which he was a crew member), under the overall direction of Hugo Eckener, the head of the company. They were 245 m (804 ft) long and 41 m (135 ft)...

Margaretha Meta von Salis (1855–1929), Swiss feminist and historian Hugo Eckener (1868–1954), manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war...

1974 he played Claudio in Measure for Measure. In 2007 he played Dr Hugo Eckener in the docudrama Hindenburg: The Untold Story, which was about the crash...

the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99. Named by the UK-APC in 1960 for Hugo Eckener (1868-1954), German pioneer of airship aviation, president of Aeroarctic...

broke its back. The passengers had to be rescued using fire ladders. Hugo Eckener, the captain, attributed the accident to his "weak-kneed" decision to...

at Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey. The ship's captain, Dr. Hugo Eckener, first flew the Graf Zeppelin across the Atlantic from Germany to pick...

evidence from witnesses, including Professor Leonard Bairstow and Dr. Hugo Eckener of the Zeppelin company, before adjourning in order to allow Bairstow...

the Versailles restrictions were relaxed by the Allies, enabling Dr Hugo Eckener, the chairman of Zeppelin Luftschiffbau, to pursue his vision of developing...

by lightning or static electricity. Although master zeppelin captain Hugo Eckener did not rule out other causes, he criticized Pruss' decision to carry...

publisher and politician, founded the Hearst Corporation (b. 1863) 1954 – Hugo Eckener, German pilot and designer (b. 1868) 1955 – Herbert Putnam, American...

Honored Takes Award as Leading U.S. Aviatrix Last Year -- Rosendahl and Eckener Also Named, The New York Times April 22, 1934 Harmon Air Prize is Won by...

British version is narrated by Malcolm Tierney who plays the role of Hugo Eckener, while John Shrapnel narrates an alternative version which features interviews...

daughter of a shoemaker. He was their youngest child. His older brother, Hugo Eckener, commanded the airship Graf Zeppelin on its first flight around the world...

John Henry Mears 23 days 15 hours 21 minutes and 3 seconds 1928 1928 Hugo Eckener 21 days, 5 hours and 31 minutes 8 August 1929 29 August 1929 First circumnavigation...

coastline 1931: Successful research trip by airship Graf Zeppelin led by Hugo Eckener 1931: Sir Hubert Wilkins with submarine Nautilus (failed 800 km (500 mi)...

circling Lake Michigan near the exposition for two hours, Commander Hugo Eckener landed the 776-foot airship at the nearby Curtiss-Wright Airport in Glenview...