The Potsdam Plant
The “DELAG” Passenger Zeppelin “Victoria Louise”.
The ship’s 1000th trip, totaling 40,000 miles in 1292 hours and during which 22,039 passengers were carried without injury of any kind.
The “DELAG” Passenger Zeppelin “Victoria Louise”.
Count Zeppelin and Doctor Eckener beneath the ship.
The Zeppelin plant at Potsdam was erected in 1912 as an airship harbor and the following winter became one of the main construction centers with shed, workshops, and other necessary equipment. Here the passenger Zeppelin “Sachsen” was lengthened early in 1914. The last of the sixteen ships built there was the army Zeppelin LZ-81 late in 1916, after which, because the shed was too small for the larger ships, it was used for building giant seaplanes. Later on it was converted into a special repair factory of all the airship motors. The airship personnel was transferred to the Staaken plant near Berlin.