Hindenburg Disaster Passenger List

Only 36 passengers flew on Hindenburg’s first North American flight of 1937, far less than the ship’s 72-passenger capacity. (Although the return flight to Germany was sold out, largely to passengers who wanted to make a dramatic arrival in Europe before attending the coronation of King George VI on May 12th.)

The following information is taken from the Passenger Manifests submitted to the Philadelphia field office of United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. (For historical reasons, no corrections have been made; the information is presented exactly as it appears on the INS manifests, even if incomplete or known to be inaccurate.)

[A list of the officers and crew on the last flight can be found here.]

* Indicates that the passenger died as a result of the crash.

Leonhard Adelt
Age: 55
Nationality: German
Occupation: Writer
Residence: Berlin, Germany
Birthplace: Germany
Languages spoken: German, English

Gertrud Adelt
Age: 36
Nationality: German
Occupation: Wife
Residence: Berlin, Germany
Birthplace: Dresden, Germany
Languages spoken: German, English

Ernst Rudolf Anders *
Age:
Nationality: German
Occupation: Merchant
Body returned S.S. Hamburg, 5/13/37

Peter Ferdinand Lammot Belin
Age: 24
Nationality: United States
Address: Washington D.C.

Birger Brinck *
Age:
Nationality: Swedish
Occupation: Writer
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:
Body returned S.S. Drottningholm, 5/15/37

Karl Otto Clemens
Age: 27
Nationality: German
Occupation: Photographer
Residence: Bonn, Germany
Birthplace: Bonn, Germany
Languages spoken:
Sailed S.S. Europa, 5/16/37, Tourist Class

Hermann Doehner *
Age:
Nationality: Mexican
Occupation: Merchant
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:

Matilda Doehner
Age: 41
Nationality: Mexican
Occupation: Housewife
Residence: Mexico City
Birthplace: Argentina
Languages spoken: English, German, Spanish

Irene Doehner *
Age: 14
Nationality: Mexican
Occupation: Daughter
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:

Walter Doehner
Age: 10
Nationality: Mexican
Occupation: Son
Residence: Mexico City
Birthplace: Mexico City, Mexico
Languages spoken: German, Spanish

Werner Doehner
Age: 8
Nationality: Mexican
Occupation: Son
Residence: Mexico City
Birthplace: Darmstadt, Germany
Languages spoken: German, Spanish

Burtis Dolan*
Age: 47
Nationality: United States
Address: 734 Kenesaw Terrace, Chicago

Edouard Douglas*
Age: 39
Nationality: United States
Address:

Fritz Erdmann *
Age:
Nationality: German
Occupation: Colonel (German Air Ministry)
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:
Body returned S.S. Hamburg, 5/13/37

Otto Ernst *
Age: 77
Nationality: German
Occupation:
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:
Body returned S.S. Bremen, 5/22/37

Else Ernst
Age: 63
Nationality: German
Occupation: Housewife
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:

Moritz Feibusch *
Age: 57
Nationality: United States
Address:2601 Lincoln Way, San Francisco

George Grant
Age: 64
Nationality: British
Occupation: Agent
Residence: London, England
Birthplace: London, England
Languages spoken: English

Klaus Hinkelbein
Age:
Nationality: German
Occupation: First Lieutenant (Berlin, Air Ministry)
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:
Sailed S.S. Europa 5/16/37

George Hirschfeld
Age: 35
Nationality: German
Occupation: Merchant
Residence: Bremen, Germany
Birthplace: Bremen, Germany
Languages spoken: German

Marie Kleemann
Age: 62
Nationality: German
Occupation:
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:

Erich Knoecher *
Age:
Nationality: German
Occupation: Manufacturer
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:
Body returned S.S. Hamburg, 5/13/37

William Leuchtenberg
Age: 64
Nationality: United States
Address: 2 West 86th Street, MNew York City

Philip Mangone
Age: 52
Nationality: United States
Address: 145 East 58th Street, New York City

Margaret G. Mather
Age: 59
Nationality: United States
Address: c/o Mrs. Louise Turner, Princeton NJ

Nelson Morris
Age: 46
Nationality: United States
Address: 38 Dearborn Street, Chicago

Herbert James O’Laughlin
Age: 28
Nationality: United States
Address: 91 Bonnie Brae, River Forest, Illinois

Clifford Osburn
Age: 40
Nationality: United States
Address: 400 West Madison, Chicago

John Pannes *
Age: 60
Nationality: United States
Address: 11 Woodland Drive, Plandome, L.I.

Emma Pannes *
Age: 56
Nationality: United States
Address: 11 Woodland Drive, Plandome, L.I.

Otto Reichhold *
Age:
Nationality: German
Occupation: Merchant
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:
Body returned S.S. Hamburg, 5/13/37

Joseph Spah
Age: 32
Nationality: German
Occupation: Acrobat
Residence: Douglaston, NY USA
Birthplace: Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorrain
Languages spoken: German

Emil Stoeckle
Age:
Nationality: German
Occupation: Employe
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:
Sailed S.S. Europa 5/16/37

Hans Vinholt
Age: 64
Nationality: Danish
Occupation:
Residence:
Birthplace:
Languages spoken:
Sailed S.S. Europa 5/16/37

Rolf von Heidenstamm
Age: 52
Nationality: Swedish
Occupation: Businessman/Chamberlain
Residence: Stockholm, Sweden
Birthplace: Paris, France
Languages spoken: Swedish

Hans Hugo Witt
Age: 36
Nationality: German
Occupation: Major (German Air Ministry)
Residence: Barth, Pomerania, Germany
Birthplace: Rostock, Germany
Languages spoken: German

Department of Commerce Inquiry

The following list of passengers appeared as part of the Accident Investigation report published by the the United States Department of Commerce in the Air Commerce Bulletin of August 15, 1937 (vol. 9, no. 2):

* Indicates those who died in accident.

Adelt, Gertrude Berlin, Germany
Adelt, Leonhard
* Angers, Ernst Rudolf, Dresden, Germany
Belin, Peter,Washington, D. C.
* Brink, Birger
Clemens, Carl Otto, Bonn, Germany
* Doehner, Hermann, Mexico City, Mexico
* Doehner, Irene
Doehner Matilda
Doehner, Walter
Doehner, Werner
* Dolan, Curtis, France
* Douglas, Edward, New York
* Erimann, Fritz
Ernst, Elsa, Hamburg, Germany
* Ernst, Otto C.
* Feibusch, Moritz, Lincoln, Nebraska
Grant, George, London, England
Heidenstamm, Rudolf von
Herschfeld, George, Bremen, Germany
Hinkelbein, Claus
Kleeman, Marie
* Knoecher, Erich, Zeulenroda, Germany
Leuchtenberg, Wm., New York
Mangone, Philip
Mather, Margaret
Morris, Nelson
O’Laughlin, Herbert
Osbun, Clifford, Chicago, U.S.A.
* Pannes, Emma, New York
* Pannes, John
* Reichold, Otto, Vienna, Austria
Spaeh, Joseph
Stoeckle, Emil
Vinholt, Hans, Copenhagen, Denmark
Witt, Hans

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