| History |
Lufthansa Airlines was founded in
1926 as Deutsche Luft Hansa Aktiengesellschaft, with the merger of
Deutsche Aero Lloyd (DAL) and Junkers Luftverkehr. The airline was
rebranded Lufthansa in 1933. Following WWII, a new airline named
Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) is founded in Cologne
on January 6, 1953 and renamed Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft in
1954. Opertions began on April 1, 1955.
During this same period, East Germany attempted to establish its own
airline using the Lufthansa name, but this was disputed by West Germany,
where the airline had been already re-established. East Germany instead
named its national airline Interflug, which ceased operations in 1991.
In 1997, Lufthansa became one of the founding airlines in the Star
Alliance and on March 22, 2005, Lufthansa acquired Swiss International
Air Lines and merged it into the Lufthansa Group.
Lufthansa inherited its crane logo, designed by Deutsche Luft-Reederei
in 1919, from DAL and the blue-and-yellow house colours from Junkers. |
