Imperial Automobile Club, Motored-Flight Committee

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The Automobilclub von Deutschland or Automobile Club of Germany was founded on 31 July 1899 in Berlin. On 24 Dec. 1905, it assumed protection of the Germany Emperor, the Kaiser and King, Wilhelm II and became the Kaiserlicher Automobil-Club (KAeC) or Imperial Automobile Club. On 28 April 1909, the club established a Motored-Flight Committee (Motorflugkomission) and on 20 May 1909 it joined the DLV (German Aeronaut Federation : Deutscher Luftschiffer-Verband).

The KAeC's official journal, Allgemeine Automobil-Zeitung, founded in 1900, appears to have included coverage of the Motorflug-Kommission after the latter was founded in 1909. T he KAeC had 1,849 members in 1911. On 7 Dec. 1918, the name of the KAeC reverted to Automobilclub von Deutschland.

It appears that the website cited at left said the Automobil-Club was a founding member of the FAI [need to double-check that that website said so, though there is no other apparent source for the statement, now removed from this table]. Anyway, this is incorrect. The DLV was already in existence in 1905 and contemporaneous sources put it at the founding of the FAI.

Affiliated with DLV on 20 May 1909

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Organization names Imperial Automobile Club, Motored-Flight Committee : Kaiserlicher Automobil-Club, Motoflugkommission
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Country Germany
City Berlin
Affiliated with DLV
Scope National, Special Interest
Started aero 1909
Ended aero 1918, name change
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  • Address: c/o Kaiserlicher Automobil Club, 16 Leipziger Platz, Berlin W9 (1910)

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