(image copyright Bjorn Larsson www.timetableimages.com)
Deutsche Lufthansa
The Deutsche Lufthansa GmbH was founded
in 1952 in the German Democratic Republic. This airline was 100% property of
the Soviet occupation government. The aim was to claim to be the legal
successors, and hence the ownership, of the former Deutsche Lufthansa AG
created in 1926.
However, the Deutsche Lufthansa AG was refounded in 1953 in the three western occupation zones
(West Germany). This airline was now a state-owned company of the Federal
Republic of Germany. The western Allies thus prevented the legal takeover of
the former (1926-1945) Lufthansa by the East German authorities.
Since the Soviet Union did not receive
the assets of the former Lufthansa, it had to rent three Soviet airplanes to
the German Democratic Republic, so that the Deutsche Lufthansa GmbH der DDR
could take over air traffic in 1954. This was the real foundation of the East
German airline, even though the company existed since 1952.
The East German Lufthansa was handed
over in 1953 by the Soviets to the East German state, to become a state-owned
company. Only then did it become a really (East) German airline. Interflug was founded in 1958 as a second East German
airline to operate charter flights, while the Deutsche Lufthansa GmbH der DDR
kept operating the regular flights.
Legal litigation started in Bern in
1962 between East and West Germany over the trade mark Lufthansa. The court gave
this name to the Federal Republic of Germany which implied that the East German
airline had to change its name. This is how Interflug
assumed also the regular flights and the East German Lufthansa ceased to exist
with the services being taken over by Interflug.
The flights below were operated by IL-14s
and AN-2s and come from the April ‘58 timetable from www.timetableimages.com .
Berlin – Barth – Berlin DH41/DH42 (IL-14)
|
Heading |
Distance |
North |
City
Name |
ICAO |
South |
Heading |
Distance |
|
346 |
0 |
0850 |
Berlin |
EDDB |
1125 |
- |
121.1 |
|
- |
121.1 |
0955 |
Barth |
EDBH |
1020 |
165 |
0 |
Berlin – Dresden – Berlin DH61/DH60 (IL-14)
|
Heading |
Distance |
South |
City
Name |
ICAO |
North |
Heading |
Distance |
|
172 |
0 |
1650 |
Berlin |
EDDB |
0830 |
- |
75.3 |
|
- |
75.3 |
1740 |
Dresden |
EDDC |
0740 |
353 |
0 |
Erfurt – Dresden – Erfurt DH10/DH11 (IL-14)
|
Heading |
Distance |
East |
City
Name |
ICAO |
West |
Heading |
Distance |
|
083 |
0 |
0920 |
Erfurt |
EDDE |
1125 |
- |
106.3 |
|
- |
106.3 |
1010 |
Dresden |
EDDC |
1035 |
267 |
0 |
Berlin – Erfurt – Berlin DH71/DH72 (IL-14)
|
Heading |
Distance |
West |
City
Name |
ICAO |
East |
Heading |
Distance |
|
230 |
0 |
0750 |
Berlin |
EDDB |
1735 |
- |
127.0 |
|
- |
127.0 |
0850 |
Erfurt |
EDDE |
1635 |
047 |
0 |
Berlin – Leipzig – Berlin DH01/DH02 (IL-14)
|
Heading |
Distance |
West |
City
Name |
ICAO |
East |
Heading |
Distance |
|
220 |
0 |
0640 |
Berlin |
EDDB |
0825 |
- |
74.4 |
|
- |
74.4 |
0720 |
Leipzig |
EDDP |
0745 |
039 |
0 |
Karl-Marx-Stadt – Berlin – Karl-Marx-Stadt DH50/DH51
(AN-2)
|
Heading |
Distance |
North |
City
Name |
ICAO |
South |
Heading |
Distance |
|
014 |
0 |
0635 |
Karl-Marx-Stadt |
EDCJ |
1010 |
- |
101.1 |
|
- |
101.1 |
0805 |
Berlin |
EDDB |
0845 |
195 |
0 |
Karl-Marx-Stadt – Leipzig – Karl-Marx-Stadt DH54/DH55
(AN-2)
|
Heading |
Distance |
North |
City
Name |
ICAO |
South |
Heading |
Distance |
|
331 |
0 |
1100 |
Karl-Marx-Stadt |
EDCJ |
1320 |
- |
46.4 |
|
- |
46.4 |
1135 |
Leipzig |
EDDP |
1245 |
150 |
0 |
Karl-Marx-Stadt – Dresden – Karl-Marx-Stadt DH56/DH57
(AN-2)
|
Heading |
Distance |
East |
City
Name |
ICAO |
West |
Heading |
Distance |
|
056 |
0 |
1100 |
Karl-Marx-Stadt |
EDCJ |
1300 |
- |
42.1 |
|
- |
42.1 |
1135 |
Dresden |
EDDC |
1225 |
237 |
0 |
Flight Simulator Files
The IL-14 is available for FS2004 in il14_10.zip and in
il14_10z.zip, and the AN-2 in AN2T_07.zip on www.flightsim.com