Ludwig Dürr (4 June 1878,
StuttgartStuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
– 1 January 1956,
FriedrichshafenFriedrichshafen is a town on the northern side of Lake Constance in southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria....
) was an
airshipAn airship or dirigible is a lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust...
designer.
Dürr worked for
Ferdinand von ZeppelinFerdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company...
from 1899. After he had cooperated in the construction of the first
zeppelinFor the English rock group, please see Led Zeppelin. For other meanings please see Zeppelin .A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893...
airship
LZ 1The Zeppelin LZ1 was the first truly successful experimental rigid airship, first flown from a floating hangar on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen in southern Germany, at 20:03 on 2 July 1900....
, he himself began to construct airships and lightweight construction parts.
All of the following zeppelin drafts come from Ludwig Dürr.
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Ludwig Dürr (4 June 1878,
StuttgartStuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....
– 1 January 1956,
FriedrichshafenFriedrichshafen is a town on the northern side of Lake Constance in southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria....
) was an
airshipAn airship or dirigible is a lighter-than-air aircraft that can be steered and propelled through the air using rudders and propellers or other thrust...
designer.
Dürr worked for
Ferdinand von ZeppelinFerdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer, the founder of the Zeppelin Airship company...
from 1899. After he had cooperated in the construction of the first
zeppelinFor the English rock group, please see Led Zeppelin. For other meanings please see Zeppelin .A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century. It was based on designs he had outlined in 1874 and detailed in 1893...
airship
LZ 1The Zeppelin LZ1 was the first truly successful experimental rigid airship, first flown from a floating hangar on Lake Constance, near Friedrichshafen in southern Germany, at 20:03 on 2 July 1900....
, he himself began to construct airships and lightweight construction parts.
All of the following zeppelin drafts come from Ludwig Dürr. He was to resolve the Zeppelin company in 1945 employed there, from 1915 as technical director.
The Ludwig Dürr School, a primary school with a real stage works in
FriedrichshafenFriedrichshafen is a town on the northern side of Lake Constance in southern Germany, near the borders with Switzerland and Austria....
, is named after him.
Literature
- Schmitt, G. and Schwipps, W. -Early pioneers of aviation, Gondrom Verlag, Blindlach 1995, ISBN 3-8112-1189-7
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