TODAY IN BERLIN: DLH TAKES OFF AT THE KAISERHOF

On This Day in Berlin

On January 6, 1926 Deutsche Luft Hansa AG was born in Berlin’s “Hotel Kaiserhof”. It came to be through a merger of two established early airlines, Junkers Luftverkehr AG and Deutscher Aero Lloyd. It was an arranged marriage - both companies were deep in the red and needed the German state to pull them out of the mire. The Weimar Republic had, however, …