#interflug

[bacony-cakes]

everyone's heard of pan am and trans world airlines and i have already seen things like these

but i made some more from other airlines i know

i also made an alternate biman bangladesh:

and interflug:

feel free to use all of these

(…and tell me if you know an airline that can fit in with this style, so i can make more)

[benkaden]

Ansichtskarte

DESSAU Im Lehrpark für Tier- und Pflanzenkunde.

Köthen: VEB Ansichtskartenverlag Köthen (P 1/73 IV-14-45 06 08 31 131)

1973

[malautomat]

WARTBURG 3️⃣5️⃣3️⃣

[nocternalrandomness]

Ilyushin IL-18D operated by German Airlines Interflug at Birmingham Airport, UK - April 1985

[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 5257: DDR-SET, Ilyushin 62M, Interflug, Berlin-Schönefeld, September 21, 1990.

On this September afternoon of 1990, the German Democratic Republic (abbreviated DDR in German), a.k.a. Eastern Germany, had only twelve days left before its peaceful unification with Western Germany, and thus the international country prefix 'DDR' in the jet's tail number would also soon be history. On October 3rd, the day of the unification, the classic jet would receive the West German registration D-AOAK.

Interflug, the flag carrier of Eastern Germany, had high hopes to continue trading from its base in Schönefeld and made plans to replace its Sovjet-built fleet with Western Airbus and Boeing aircraft. However, business was already very slow in the final days of the DDR, and little activity could be observed around the handful of Ilyushins and Tupolevs idling on the ramp.

Like with most businesses of former Eastern Germany, the stiff competition from West German service providers and producers quickly dwarfed any hopes for survival of East German companies. it was no different with Interflug - despite attempting to modernize with three A310-300s, it would fold and get liquidated as soon as by March 1991, just 5 months after the historic merger of the two Germanies.

[aviaposter]

Ilyushin Il-18 Interflug

Registration: DDR-STE Type: Il-18V Engines: 4 × AI-20 Serial Number: 051-01 First flight: 1962

Interflug GmbH was the national airline of East Germany from 1963 to 1990. Based in East Berlin, it operated scheduled and chartered flights to European and intercontinental destinations out of its hub at Berlin Schönefeld Airport, focusing on Comecon countries. Following the German reunification, the company was liquidated. Over the 1960s, the airline saw a significant growth, concerning both its route network and fleet of Soviet-built aircraft. The Ilyushin Il-18 turboprop airliner became the backbone of Interflug's short haul flights during that period. Now Ilyushin Il-18 DDR-STE is an exhibit of the Hans Grade Museum, Borkheide, Germany.

Poster for Aviators. aviaposter.com

[runwayrunway]

when germans think lufthansa nobody thinks ah yes the name the nazis gave to their airline, because the hansa name is a direct tie to something far older and that is far more suitably neutrally nationalist propaganda - Hansa. The Hanseatic League. The "earliest predecessor to the EU" and something that remains such a point of pride that formerly Hanseatic cities keep it in their name centuries after the Hanseatic league was wiped from all maps. Something that remains on modern city signs and even on car registration plates, like Hamburg giving up the single "H" to the smaller and far less important city of Hanover just so they can have their "HH" for Hansastadt Hamburg

With Lufthansa it's not so much the etymology that's the issue as the historical context. The name itself is entirely harmless but the original Deutsch Luft Hansa was a government apparatus which used forced labor of prisoners including children and was run by members of the Nazi party including several who had personal hands in war crimes. Today's Lufthansa is technically a different company but it was lead by many of the same people, most notably Deutsche Bank manager Kurt Weigelt, Luftwaffe Oberkommando Kurt Knipfer, and Luftwaffe chief of staff Werner Kreipe. This company was actually established with the name Luftag and then spent a significant amount of money to continue using the pre-war name and crane logo. (East Germany's flag carrier pre-Interflug also attempted to do this until Luftag/Lufthansa sued them into bankruptcy for it. To be clear, they also should not have done this, in my opinion.) They also seem to consider themselves to be the same company, if stating their founding date as 1926 is any indication. They've taken some downright bizarre actions when it comes to if they want to acknowledge this or not, including commissioning studies by historians and then suppressing their publication. Keeping the Luftag or Interflug name would not have changed this but the fact that they chose to continue branding themselves as Lufthansa definitely exacerbates it.

This is the unfortunate double reality in which German companies which keep the names of their Nazi-era counterparts are forced to operate. I'm sure somebody who knows more about cars than me could talk about Volkswagen or Porsche, which literally takes its name from an officer of the SS who produced weaponry for the war effort. Should they have outright changed their names? That's a bigger question than I can answer. I generally lean towards 'yes' in the same way I do for Chanel - the fact that a company is no longer literally owned by the same people it once was doesn't make the bitter pill that is branding itself with the name of someone who contributed to genocide much easier to swallow, and even more so with something inherently political like a flag carrier. Both Italy and Japan, for example, retired the brands of Ala Littoria and Imperial Japanese Airways. But there's obviously not a consensus here and I am just one person with one opinion. I find Chanel and Porsche to be far more inherently loaded than Lufthansa, but that doesn't mean there isn't a conversation to be had surrounding this topic, and people have been having that conversation for years.

This is, in all honesty, about the least of my political criticisms of the current Lufthansa. It's been the better part of a century and they are no longer literally abducting people to build their radar systems to the best of my knowledge, nor do they have any 150-year-old SS officers serving on their board. But they are still indisputably linked to Nazi Germany, which I expect they are pretty reluctant to lean into when discussing their history because if they did that would be terrible (and as far as I know of German law probably also illegal). Of the large airlines in the world this is a pretty uniquely Lufthansa baggage to deal with and it puts them in a pretty unfortunate spot a lot of the time, but as I was getting at in my post I do think there's a lot they could do that actually leans into German identity rather than being quarterlyreportcore without sticking Third Reich imagery on their planes but I can also understand why they may be hesitant to brand themselves in any way that isn't super sterile given that they have this history. It is just inherently harder to make being Lufthansa your brand than it is to make being the country that has really great glaciers your brand.

No, it's not the main thing that is associated with the name 'Lufthansa' and it shouldn't be. Yes, Lufthansa is a brand which was actively put forth by the Third Reich rather than just coincidentally existing at the same time and that is always going to be a nasty barnacle attached to the airline.

[history-matters]

Every single person who has served in the First Presidency of the Mormon Church (LDS) since at least 1970 has had a book-length biography written about them, with the exception of Dieter Uchtdorf. Why? Because President of LDS is the highest ranking living Stasi in the United States. His official biography, which was written with approval of Russian, and some Central European friendly services, is forged, as well as his last name. There were two brothers behind the back of this former Lufthansa pilot, who also flew with Interflug. They were: Wolfgang Karl Adolf Uchtdorf - born on 7 April 1929, in Zwickau, Kreis Zwickau, Saxony, Germany. He married Irmgard Martha Luschtinetz on 7 May 1959, in Elko, Nevada, United States. He served as NCO in the US Army Corps of Engineers. He died on 17 May 1971, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Murray Cemetery, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. Karl-Heinz Uchtdorf - born on 29 January 1933, in Berlin, Germany. He worked for the LDS Church and built up and headed the European Distribution Center in Frankfurt, Germany in the 1970's. He died on 15 July 2005, in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany, at the age of 72. Nonetheless, there was another Stasi (HVA)* man in the U.S., who oversaw Ivana Winklmayr, Arnold Schwarzenegger and even Dieter Uchtdorf himself in 70-90s.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.17 (after 1930)

1930 – U.S. President Herbert Hoover signs the Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act into law. 1932 – Bonus Army: Around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits. 1933 – Union Station massacre: In Kansas City, Missouri, four FBI agents and captured fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash. 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison. 1940 – World War II: RMS Lancastria is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are killed in Britain's worst maritime disaster. 1940 – World War II: The British Army's 11th Hussars assault and take Fort Capuzzo in Libya, Africa from Italian forces. 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union. 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic. 1948 – United Airlines Flight 624, a Douglas DC-6, crashes near Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, killing all 43 people on board. 1952 – Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land. 1953 – Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion. 1958 – The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others. 1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $4 million for 7 million acres (28,000 km2) of land undervalued at four cents/acre in the 1863 treaty. 1963 – The United States Supreme Court rules 8–1 in Abington School District v. Schempp against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools. 1963 – A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed. 1967 – Nuclear weapons testing: China announces a successful test of its first thermonuclear weapon. 1971 – U.S. President Richard Nixon in a televised press conference called drug abuse "America's public enemy number one", starting the War on drugs. 1972 – Watergate scandal: Five White House operatives are arrested for burgling the offices of the Democratic National Committee during an attempt by members of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon to illegally wiretap the political opposition as part of a broader campaign to subvert the democratic process. 1985 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-G mission: Space Shuttle Discovery launches carrying Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a payload specialist. 1987 – With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct. 1989 – Interflug Flight 102 crashes during a rejected takeoff from Berlin Schönefeld Airport, killing 21 people. 1991 – Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth. 1992 – A "joint understanding" agreement on arms reduction is signed by U.S. President George Bush and Russian President Boris Yeltsin (this would be later codified in START II). 1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase, O. J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. 2015 – Nine people are killed in a mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. 2017 – A series of wildfires in central Portugal kill at least 64 people and injure 204 others. 2021 – Juneteenth National Independence Day, was signed into law by President Joe Biden, to become the first federal holiday established since Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 1983.

[mrunterstrichtom]

donnerstag, 13. april ‘23, 22.39 uhr

interflug

bei den hundert d-mark begrüßungsgeld für ihre östlichen brüder und schwestern existierte noch die nationale volksarmee und ‘ne nachricht die berliner mauer fällt ist in der stadt schon schnee von gestern wie wenige monate danach auch ‘ne sed mig neunundzwanzig - jahrzehnte später für neue östliche brüder und schwestern einst bestand der nationalen volksarmee jetzt bloß formsache für schreibtischtäter wer würde nach der enthauptung lästern fragen war nicht hilfreich, was ich da seh‘ und bald werden polnische ‘vögel‘ fliegen über gebiete mit brüdern von schwestern ohne piloten einer nationalen volksarmee ‘n präsident verkündet man werde siegen noch ein weit'res mal schnee von gestern am tefefon dankt er ‘nem kanzler ‘ner brd

[bremsnitzer]

[ddr-reklame]

Die staatliche Fluggesellschaft Interflug wurde am 18. September 1958 als Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung gegründet. . Ziel war vorrangig die Durchführung von Bedarfsluftverkehr im Charterflug. Damit entstand neben der Deutschen Lufthansa der DDR – die vorrangig Linienverkehr betrieb – eine zweite Fluggesellschaft in der DDR. Die Schaffung dieser Luftfahrtgesellschaft war durch die damals herrschenden politischen Verhältnisse, vor allem durch die sowohl politisch als auch wirtschaftlich geführte Auseinandersetzung mit der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, begründet. . Schwerpunkt war in den Anfangsjahren der Flugverkehr zur zweimal jährlich stattfindenden Leipziger Messe. Da die Interflug nicht über eigenes Fluggerät verfügte, wurden Maschinen der ostdeutschen Lufthansa genutzt. Anfänglich änderte man Bemalung und Beschriftung, später versah man die Maschinen nur noch mit einem zusätzlichen Unternehmenslogo. . Anfang der 1960er Jahre verschärfte sich die Auseinandersetzung über die Nutzung des Namens „Lufthansa“ zwischen den beiden namensgleichen Fluggesellschaften der Bundesrepublik und der DDR. Ein von der Deutschen Lufthansa vor dem Höheren Wirtschaftsgericht der jugoslawisch-serbischen Teilrepublik in Belgrad angestrengter Prozess wurde im September 1963 ausgesetzt, nachdem der DDR-Verkehrsminister Erwin Kramer vorgeschlagen hatte, die Deutsche Lufthansa der DDR zu liquidieren. Flugzeuge, Flugplätze und Streckenrechte der ostdeutschen Lufthansa gingen an die Interflug über, die damit auch den Linienflugverkehr übernahm und damit einzige Fluggesellschaft der DDR wurde. (via #Wikipedia) . #Flugzeug #Fluglinie #Fluggesellschaft #Landebahn #Landung #landingstrip #runway #airport #airline #Interflug #IF #Reise #Flüge #Flug #traveling #DDR #GDR #Ostalgie #EastGermany https://www.instagram.com/p/Bpw8AHDBA12/?igshid=1bxj02i9ks8xb

[benkaden]

Beleg

INTERFLUG Neue Passagierabfertigung Flughafen Berlin-Schönefeld 1.6.1976

INTERFLUG  Abteilung Werbung DDR - 1189 Berlin-Schönefeld Flughafen

[diemethyltrips]

[universallyarbiterinternet]

1971 Berlin Alexanderplatz, Haus des Reisens von Karlheinz Zimmermann Über Flickr: 1971 Randbebauung Alexanderplatz Berlin. "Haus des Reisens", Alexanderplatz 5 (jetzt Alexanderstraße 7) Fotografiert am 13.11.1971, im Jahr der Einweihung des Gebäudes. Rechts das "Haus der Statistik". (GPS 52.522483, 13.415048)

[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 6709: D-AOAO, Ilyushin 18V, BerLine, Basel-Mulhouse, March 1, 1992.

After the East German flag carrier Interflug ceased operations a mere five months after German unification, utility operator BSF Berliner Spezialflug stepped up to buy five of Interflug's Ilyushin 18 turboprops. It planned to offer them for leisure and ad-hoc charters and formed the BerLine brand for this venture.

D-AOAO, formerly DDR-STF with Interflug, joined the fleet in October 1991 and after an upgrade to Western TCAS and navaid equipment required by German legislation it began flying for BerLine in November 1991. BerLine stayed in business and flew her until the end of March 1994, after having reduced the initial fleet down to just three units in December 1992, in an attempt to save cost.

The hockey team "Dynamo Berlin" - today known as "Berliner Eisbären" - was one of the first adhoc charter customers of BerLine. A premier league match against Freiburg HC brought her to Basel-Mulhouse airport, located some 60 kilometres / 40 miles Southwest of Freiburg in Breisgau, just across the Rhine on its French bank.