Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H.

Luftfahrzeug Gesellschaft (LFG) was financed by investors including Krupp. Apparently, from sometime in 1915, designer Dipl. Ing. Tantzen.

LFG started at former Flugmaschine Wright GmbH] factory in Adlershof, what was done at that factory is unclear to us. Sometime before October 1915 company is renamed LFG Roland and factory established at Berlin-Charlottenberg to build Albatros B amd C type (seaplanes?). Some 270 LFG Roland C2, apparently an improved Albatros C, designed by Tantzen, October 1915, are built with 50 additional built by Linke-Hoffman. This was followed by additional C and D models. Prototypes built at Straslund include V19 observation floatplane able to fold into hangar on U-boat.

After WWI this company built monoplane and biplane seaplanes. including a series of passenger seaplanes. Company was liquidated in 1928.

Dir1920, p28, lists Roland-Maschineenbau GmbH at Berlin-Charlottenburg

Hungarian patent data has them as simply located in Berlin.

Names: Initially Luftfahrzeug Gesellschaft (LFG); later renamed LFG Roland

Sources

• Gunston, 1993, p182
• Gunston, 2005, p282-283
• SD177-178; 1919AYB358, 360

Patents associated with organization named Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H.

• Patent DE-1912-276716 (English title: Lateral reinforcement for the supporting bodies of airships, Filing date: 1912-07-12, Applicant firm: Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H.)
• Patent AT-1913-76965 (English title: Lateral reinforcement for the lifting body of non-rigid airships, Filing date: 1913-02-20, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1912-276716, Applicant firm: Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H.)
• Patent IT-1915-148437 (English title: Dirigible nacelle shaped like a floating hull, Filing date: 1915-03-18, Applicant firm: Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H.)
• Patent HU-1916-78234 (English title: Movable refrigeration for aircraft, Filing date: 1916-04-12, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1915-04-16 Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H., Applicant firm: Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H.)

Patents associated with organization named Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft M. B. H.

• Patent HU-1916-76153 (English title: Leather coupling for power transmissions, Filing date: 1916-04-22, Supplementary to patent: Patent DE-1915-05-04 Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H., Applicant firm: Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft M. B. H.)

References

Names	Luftfahrzeug Gesellschaft, Luftfahrzeug-Gesellschaft m. b. H., Luft-Fahrzeug-Gesellschaft M. B. H., LFG, LFG Roland
Country	Germany
City	Aldershof; Berlin; Berlin-Charlottenberg with seaplane works at Straslund
Affiliations
Keywords	Airplane, motors, design, propellers, propulsion, hydroplane
Started aero	1912
Ended aero	1928
Key people	Krupp, Tantzen
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