Talk:Hugo Eckener

Citation for Deutschland II Crash
This came from a 1996 Hindenburg documentary by The History Channel. Frankyboy5 23:38, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Old Man?
What does it mean to be "the old man" of a company? -- Mikeblas 01:33, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Date of birth
Some sites say he was born 10 May 1868. -- JackofOz (talk) 13:50, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I have added a cite from the mini-biography by Dr. Broder Schwensen, Städtischer Archivdirektor. The May date came from wikipedia revisions prior to 2005-12-21, which some of those sites must have picked up.-84user (talk) 16:23, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Probably true in some cases, but not in all cases. Years before WP was invented I made a note of his birth date, from a source (long-since forgotten) that said 10 May.  There's got to be some rationale for 10 May, even if it was an error in some old publication that others copied in good faith.  I could understand transposing August into a May date (given that he died in August) far more readily than I could accept making up a May date out of thin air.  Maybe an 8 was misread as a 5, or vice-versa.  My instincts say this needs further investigation.   -- JackofOz (talk) 22:13, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I will look into this too, mainly from the German sources. I'll look at old usenet and archived pages too - but tomorrow. The first web entry that had May was a straight, unattributed, copy from wikipedia. The German mini-biography shows the Flensburg 1924 "honouring letter" and quotes ""Der Doktor der Philosophie Hugo Eckener, geboren zu Flensburg am 10. August 1868,". -84user (talk) 00:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

Is the lifetime detail (days and weeks?) really relevant information here? 24.36.183.150 (talk) 12:40, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
 * The unnecessary detail you mention was removed (not by me but I support its removal) by this edit just minutes before. -84user (talk) 21:03, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

'Sidelined'
"After the destruction of the Hindenburg, the nearly-completed LZ-130 Graf Zeppelin was redesigned as a helium-filled ship, although, owing to geo-political considerations, the American helium was not available. Thus the ship never began commercial service."

This isn't entirely true. The Hindenburg had been designed to use Helium as the lifting gas, but Hugo was unable to convince the USA government to allow the supply of Helium, so LZ129 used Hydrogen. The LZ130, Graf Zeppelin II, was almost indentical to LZ129 and also designed to use Helium. After the LZ129 crashed, the Airships were no longer viable as passenger craft (no one would use them) so the Graf Zeppelin and Graf Zeppelin II were used as freight and political craft only. Hitler ordered their dismantlement and the material to be used for airoplane construction at the start of WWII. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.173.94.162 (talk) 17:44, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

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Star Wars character of the same name
There is a Star Wars character named Hugo Eckener, an architect and member of the Naboo Royal Advisory Council. See http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hugo_Eckener

Should this be added to "In popular culture" section? Josh-Levin@ieee.org (talk) 15:30, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

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