Society for the Promotion of Aeronautics (Germany)

The German Association for the promotion of aeronautics was founded on September 8, 1881 was the first aeronautical organization in Germany and later led to the establishment of the Prussian Airship Detachment.

Foundation

The establishment of the association was largely driven by the Berlin writer William Angerstein. Encouraged the creation efforts have been through the experience of massive French balloon insert during the siege of Paris in the Franco-German War of 1870 /71. After the emergence of numerous aviation clubs in Germany takes place in 1903 renamed the Berlin Association for aeronautics. As an association end, was named to further the airship in every way, and to work to ensure that the solution of the problem for the production of steerable airships will support every effort to maintain a permanent research station in particular, but ....

Club magazine

In 1882 the journal of the German Association for the Advancement of airships appears as the first German trade magazine for aviation. From 1888, it appears under the title Journal of Air shipping. The Vienna Flugtechnische club is co-editor. In 1892 the title changed again in Journal of Air Navigation and Atmospheric Physics. From 1900, the club takes the magazine Illustrated Aeronautical communications to an association organ that appears with the subtitle German Journal of Air shipping.

Members and activities

Well-known members include the airship pioneers Paul Haenlein, Friedrich Hermann Wölfert, meteorologists Richard Assmann, Arthur Berson and Reinhard Süring, the military aeronaut Hans Bartsch Sigsfeld and the flight engineer Otto Lilienthal.