Deruluft

Deruluft ( German - Russian air traffic AG ) was a joint German - Soviet airline, founded on 24 November 1921, the Aero Union AG Berlin and the Soviet trade representative in Germany. The Deruluft opened the first service on the route from Königsberg to Moscow on May 1, 1922. A new route from Berlin via Riga and Tallinn ( Reval ) to Leningrad was established on June 6, 1928. Both routes were operated until 31 March 1936.

The first aircraft were ten in the Netherlands built Fokker Grulich and F.III. Later the fleet by German Junkers F 13, Rohrbach Roland and Albatros L 58 has been added.

At the beginning of flight activity only post and officials were transported. It was only on 27 August 1922, the operation was opened to the public. Initially the route of Königsberg to Moscow was operated twice a week from five German and Soviet crews three times in 1923 and a year later a day. 1925, the Berlin-Moscow line was opened. In 1926 it operated Deruluft in cooperation with the Ukrainian Ukrwosduchputch for three months, the Moscow- Kharkov. In the same year the German Luft Hansa Aero Union took over from a partner. It was the competition of state-supported foreign airlines and the new practices of the industry, which forced the Luft Hansa to expand their routes to overseas and to take joint efforts with the Soviet Union air links to Asia in the program. In a strange way it benefited the Communist International from a collaboration of the press department of the Deutsche Luft Hansa with the New German publisher who took over the production of the customers present used, designed by Alexander Rado maps, and its owner, the Western propaganda chief Willi coin mountain, strong could fly cheaper, " in all corners of the German Reich and in 15 hours to Moscow ." 1928 included the route network 2640 km. As of 1929, the early Fokker F.III were replaced by Dornier Merkur. At the beginning of 1931 have been added Tupolev ANT -9 fleet, later followed by three Junkers Ju 52 from 1922 to 1934 promoted the airline on the Soviet-German routes 39,168 passengers and thereby lay back 9.8 million kilometers.

As part of the secret Air Force Cooperation ( Rapallo ) afforded the Deruluft also German Aircraft in the Soviet Union, which were used on the jointly operated training airfield at Lipetsk.

The Deruluft was dissolved on 31 March 1937.

Development

List of passenger and freight traffic from 1922 to 1931