Dr. Hugo Eckener (August 10, 1868–August 14, 1954) was the old man of the Zeppelin airship company. Eckener was born in Flensburg. He trained as an economist and was a correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung in 1905, 1906 and reported on the first flights of the LZ 1 and LZ 2.

Eckener was responsible for training most of Germany's airship pilots both during and after World War I.

After the War, Eckener succeeded Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin who had first pioneered the Zeppelin line of rigid airships and had died on March 8, 1917. He kept the Zeppelin factory at Friedrichshafen on the Lake of Konstanz in Wurttemberg, in southern Germany from being retooled to produce other, and likely more profitable, products. He then persuaded the US and German governments to allow the company to build LZ 126, later recristened the USS Los Angeles (ZR-3), for the US Navy as war reparations. Eckener himself captained the airship on its delivery flight to Lakehurst New Jersey. The Los Angeles went on to be the longest serving rigid airship ever operated by the US Navy.

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Apropos of nothing, I hear that Dr. Hugo Eckener, pilot of the Hindenburg, was "tickled" by the progress of his dirigible.
InfiniteMonkeyz (Doug Adkins) Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:10:25 -0000
Apropos of nothing, I hear that Dr. Hugo Eckener, pilot of the Hindenburg, was "tickled" by the progress of his dirigible.

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