Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (Ferdinand Adolf August Heinrich Graf von Zeppelin) was born on July 8, 1838 on an island in the Bodensee (Lake Constance)....
Ludwig Dürr
Ludwig Dürr was the chief designer of all airships built by the Zeppelin Company with the sole exception of the very first zeppelin, LZ-1, which...
Charles Rosendahl
Charles E. Rosendahl was the leading figure in America’s rigid airship program. He was one of the most experienced airship aviators in the United States,...
Hugo Eckener
Airship pioneer Hugo Eckener was an early associate of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, and earned worldwide fame as a zeppelin commander and tireless advocate for...
Ernst Lehmann
Ernst Lehmann was born on May 12, 1886 at Ludwigshafen am Rhein, a town on the Rhine river directly across from Mannheim, and close to...
Max Pruss
Max Pruss was the captain of the Hindenburg when it crashed at Lakehurst, New Jersey on May 6, 1937. Pruss (or Pruß in German) was...
Clara Adams
Clara Adams is little remembered today but she was well known as a pioneer of commercial aviation during the 1920’s, 30’s, and 40’s — and...
Lady Grace Drummond-Hay
Lady Grace Hay Drummond-Hay was closely associated with zeppelin travel aboard the Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg. Born Grace Marguerite Lethbridge, she was the widow of...
Zachary Lansdowne
Lt. Cdr. Zachary Lansdowne (December 1, 1888 – September 3, 1925) was a 1909 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and one of the...