Lufthansa: Two German Airlines

Hans-Liudger Dienel

Chapter 4 in Flying the Flag, 1998, pp 87-125 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Four years after the end of the Second World War two German states were set up in ideologically hostile political blocs, but it took six more years before either of them was allowed to have an airline. When they did, both flag-carriers reappropriated the pre-war name Lufthansa, simply because both states claimed to be the true successor of the pre-war state of Germany. By 1963 however East Germany, or the German Democratic Republic (GDR) had renamed its carrier Interflug and in a small way foreshadowed events 27 years later when the GDR was forced give up its national sovereignty altogether.

Keywords: German Democratic Republic; Civil Aviation; Aircraft Industry; American Airline; British Airway (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-26951-8_4

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