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IN his fiery, adventurous youth he joined the Union Army in our Civil War, and became vitally interested in aeronautics
AS a man he was known as the most fearless and audacious officer the Wrttemberg Army
AT fifty-two he retired and began the great adventure of his lifethe conquest of the air
THEN, with magnificent courage, he rode over obstacle and failure to an achievement immortal in the history of flying
Originally published in 1931, this is a biography of Count von Zeppelin, the German general turned aircraft manufacturer who founded the Zeppelin airship company.
Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (8 July 1838 - 8 March 1917), the scion of a noble family, was born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden (now part of Baden-Wrttemberg) in Germany. His father was Wrttemberg Minister and Hofmarschall Friedrich Jerme Wilhelm Karl Graf von Zeppelin (1807-1886).
Count Zeppelins military career spanned more than three decades, beginning as an army officer in the army of Wrttemberg in 1855, seeing active service in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, and rising through the ranks to commander of the 19th Uhlans in Ulm and envoy of Wrttemberg in Berlin from 1882-1885. He retired from the army with the rank of Generalleutnant in 1891 at age 52. He was awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knights Cross) of the Order of Distinguished Service of Wrttemberg.
His service as an official observer with the Union Army during the American Peninsular War led him to travel to St. Paul, Minnesota, where the German-born former Army balloonist John Steiner offered tethered flights; it was his first ascent in a balloon during this visit that is said to have been the inspiration of Count Zeppelins later interest in aeronautics.
He passed away in 1917 at the age of 78, before the end of World War I. The unfinished World War II German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin and two rigid airships were named after him.
AS a man he was known as the most fearless and audacious officer the Wrttemberg Army
AT fifty-two he retired and began the great adventure of his lifethe conquest of the air
THEN, with magnificent courage, he rode over obstacle and failure to an achievement immortal in the history of flying
Originally published in 1931, this is a biography of Count von Zeppelin, the German general turned aircraft manufacturer who founded the Zeppelin airship company.
Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin (8 July 1838 - 8 March 1917), the scion of a noble family, was born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden (now part of Baden-Wrttemberg) in Germany. His father was Wrttemberg Minister and Hofmarschall Friedrich Jerme Wilhelm Karl Graf von Zeppelin (1807-1886).
Count Zeppelins military career spanned more than three decades, beginning as an army officer in the army of Wrttemberg in 1855, seeing active service in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, and rising through the ranks to commander of the 19th Uhlans in Ulm and envoy of Wrttemberg in Berlin from 1882-1885. He retired from the army with the rank of Generalleutnant in 1891 at age 52. He was awarded the Ritterkreuz (Knights Cross) of the Order of Distinguished Service of Wrttemberg.
His service as an official observer with the Union Army during the American Peninsular War led him to travel to St. Paul, Minnesota, where the German-born former Army balloonist John Steiner offered tethered flights; it was his first ascent in a balloon during this visit that is said to have been the inspiration of Count Zeppelins later interest in aeronautics.
He passed away in 1917 at the age of 78, before the end of World War I. The unfinished World War II German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin and two rigid airships were named after him.
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ZEPPELIN
A Biography
by
MARGARET GOLDSMITH
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION
FOR
KATHERINE ANTHONY
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The author is deeply indebted for invaluable assistance and material to Herr Ernst Uhland, who was Count Zeppelins General Manager and Private Executive from the time when the first airship was constructed in 1899 until Count Zeppelins death in 1917.
ILLUSTRATIONS
ZEPPELIN (1907)
ZEPPELINS FATHER
ZEPPELIN AS A BOY OF FIFTEEN
A SKETCH MADE OF ZEPPELIN DURING THE CIVIL WAR
TRYING OUT PROPELLERS BEFORE FIRST FLIGHT
AN EARLY TYPE OF ZEPPELIN
THE FIRST HISTORIC FLIGHT OVER BERLIN
THE KAISER AND ZEPPELIN AT FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
ZEPPELIN AT THE IMPERIAL MANEUVERS (1912)
ZEPPELIN (1909)
CHAPTER ONE1838-1857
NOWADAYS we like to think of our inventors as self-made men. It is romantic to study our hero-inventors rise from the poverty of his youth. We eagerly follow his early struggles to acquire an education against all odds. Finally we sit back with deep satisfaction when we read that he has been successful, that his efforts have been ultimately rewarded by the acknowledgment of his inventions as a lasting contribution to the progress of humanity. It stimulates our imagination to think of Thomas Edison, at the age of twelve, bravely selling newspapers on the Detroit railways; we like to remember the poverty which surrounded Robert Fulton in his youth; their ultimate success seems all the more thrilling.
Perhaps we over-emphasize the importance of self-education and the rise from poverty to prominence. Perhaps there are indeed other odds which are quite as difficult to overcome as poverty. The successful struggle for an idea which all the world at first thinks of as madness, may in itself be romantic, whether the inventor himself was born the son of a poor man or a millionaire.
Count Ferdinand von Zeppelins parents were not millionaires, but they were very well-to-do people to whom money, as far as their home life or the education of their children was concerned, was never an object and much less a problem. He was, in fact, born into a family which for centuries had expected and attained distinction and achievement. Dieu dfend le droit (God defends the right) is the family motto of the Zeppelins and, as a whole, their aims have apparently been defended and promoted by some higher Power. The Zeppelins have usually been successful and they have always been sure of themselves.
The village of Zepelin in Mecklenburg, North Germany, the familys original home where, even today, their ancestral manor house can be seen, was first mentioned by chroniclers in 1246; but Zeppelins ancestors do not appear in the old records until 1286. By this time the name was spelt with two ps as it is today.
In the eighteenth century two members of the family migrated to South Germany. This is important, for it means that Ferdinand Zeppelin was not a Prussian in any sense of the word. His grandfather and his great-uncle, Ferdinand Ludwig and Johann Karl von Zeppelin, were summoned to South Germany by King Frederick of Wrttemberg who was eager to attract men of their type for the civil and diplomatic services of his country.
Ferdinand Ludwig, Zeppelins grandfather, did well in his new environment. He became the Wrttemberg Minister of Foreign Affairs. As such, after the Napoleonic Wars, he was sent to Paris to carry on negotiations with Napoleon. Later he went to Vienna to confer with Metternich and to Russia to confer with the Czar. He was considered one of the most experienced diplomats of his day. The King of Wrttemberg once wrote to him: In this miserable situation we expect that you will do whatever is in your power to protect your King and your country against future ill-treatment. Ferdinand Ludwig did as he was told; his one aim in life was to serve his King and his country conscientiously and well.
His son, Count Friedrich von Zeppelin, Ferdinand Ludwig had been made a Count, Zeppelins father, followed faithfully in his footsteps. For some years he acted as a. high court official to Prince Hohenzollern Sigmaringen. But Count Friedrich was a very shy man who shrank from the formalities of court life. Later, when he became the owner of the Girsberg Estates near Constance, he devoted his energies to agriculture and to the development of his land.
Count Friedrich was not typical of his class. His interests were beyond those usual in a German nobleman of his generation. He loved the violin and played it well. He was a poet and his verse, according to his son Ferdinand, was delicate and beautiful. Count Friedrich was the friend of some of the greatest poets of his day, including Nikolaus Lenau and Gustav Schwab. Many of his contemporaries who were busy making a career in the army or in the diplomatic service thought him odd or even soft, but their criticism did not bother him. He lived his own quiet life and brought up his family the way he thought best.
He married in 1834. His wife, Ferdinand Zeppelins mother, was a woman of quite unusual charm and intelligence. Her name was Amlie Macaire, and she belonged to a wealthy family of French migrs living in Constance. She herself, in a letter to a relative, describes Friedrich, her husband, as follows: He loves flowers and he is a poet (and please understand that I do not mean simply a verse-maker but a genuine poet, when I say this). I shall not try to tell you how kind and good he is for I should never finish telling you if I once began.
Amlie Zeppelin was practically an invalid until her death which occurred in 1852, when her son Ferdinand was fourteen years old. Little is known of the nature of her illness. My childhood and early youth, she once wrote, would have been very happy had I not been ill so much of the time. My life was embittered by constant powders and medicines, and by medicinal baths and cures consisting chiefly of goats milk. When I was fifteen years old, just as I seemed to be getting better, I suddenly went half blind.
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