Hugo Eckener, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin company
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Place of Birth: Flensburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
About Hugo Eckener
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- Hugo Eckener (10 August 1868 – 14 August 1954) was the manager of the Luftschiffbau Zeppelin during the inter-war years, and also the commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world, making him the most successful airship commander in history.
- He was also responsible for the construction of the most successful type of airships of all time.
- An anti-Nazi who was invited to campaign as a moderate in the German presidential elections, he was blacklisted by that regime and eventually sidelined.
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