Sunday, October 25, 2009

Passengers aboard LZ 129 Hindenburg - May 3-6, 1937

The following is a list of the 36 passengers aboard the Hindenburg on its last flight, with links to the biographic articles for each.

Those who died as a result of the crash are listed in italics.



Leonhard Adelt
Berlin, Germany
Journalist








Gertrud Adelt
Berlin, Germany
Journalist







Ernst Rudolf Anders
Dresden, Germany
Co-owner - Teekanne Co.








Ferdinand Lammot "Peter" Belin
Washington, D.C
Student









Birger Brinck
Stockholm, Sweden
Journalist








Karl Otto Clemens
Bonn, Germany
Photographer








Hermann Doehner
Mexico City, Mexico
General Manager - Beick, Felix y Compania








Matilde Doehner
Mexico City, Mexico









Irene Doehner
Mexico City, Mexico









Walter Doehner
Mexico City, Mexico








Werner Doehner
Mexico City, Mexico









Burtis J. Dolan
Chicago, IL
Vice President - Lelong Importing Co.









Edward Douglas
Newark, NJ
Director of European Operations - McCann/Erickson Corp.








Colonel Fritz Erdmann
Halle an der Saale, Germany
German Luftwaffe







Otto Ernst
Hamburg, Germany
Seed trader







Elsa Ernst
Hamburg, Germany








Moritz Feibusch
San Francisco, CA
Food broker








George Grant
London, England
Assistant manager - Wm. H. Müller & Co.







Lieutenant Claus Hinkelbein
Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
German Luftwaffe








George Hirschfeld
Bremen, Germany
Cotton broker









Marie Kleemann
Bad Homburg, Germany








Erich Knöcher
Zeulenroda, Germany
Wire manufacturer








William Leuchtenberg
Larchmont, NY
Executive - Alpha-Lux Co.








Philip Mangone

New York, NY
Clothing designer








Margaret Mather
Rome, Italy
Heiress








Nelson Morris
Homewood, IL
Executive - Armour and Co.








Herbert O'Laughlin
Elgin, IL
President - Consumers Coal and Coke Co. of Elgin, IL








Clifford Osbun
Park Ridge, IL
Sales Manager - Oliver Farm Equipment Co.








John Pannes
Plandome, NY
New York manager - Hamburg-America Line









Emma Pannes
Plandome, NY








Otto Reichhold
Vienna, Austria
Manager - Beck, Koller & Co.








Joseph Spah
Douglaston, Long Island, NY
Vaudeville acrobat/comedian








Emil Stöckle
Frankfurt, Germany
Mail Inspector - Deutsche Zeppelin Reederei








Hans Vinholt
Copenhagen, Denmark
Retired businessman







Rolf von Heidenstam
Stockholm, Sweden
Executive, AGA Group








Major Hans-Hugo Witt
Barth-in-Pommern, Germany
German Luftwaffe,



7 comments:

Dan said...

Great to see this list! It makes your wonderful blog even easier to use. Thanks!

Patrick Russell said...

Sure thing, Dan! I'd been planning to do it for awhile, rather than just have the page open with the articles.

I'll soon have mug shots up for the crew list as well.

Vic, Ms Place said...

I've been on this site for an hour. Amazingly well done. Thank you for providing this information.

Patrick Russell said...

It's my pleasure. I'm glad you're enjoying the site.

There sure are some interesting stories among all these people, and fortunately not all of those stories end tragically.

Alif danial said...

I dont see any women passenger isee just a few womens

Alif danial said...

Why

Patrick Russell said...

Hi Alif,

There were seven female passengers aboard the final Hindenburg flight (Gertrud Adelt, Matilde Doehner, Irene Doehner, Elsa Ernst, Marie Kleemann, Margaret Mather and Emma Pannes) as well as Emilie Imhof, the stewardess.

Why weren't there more women aboard? Well, for one thing, a lot of the people who bought tickets to fly on the Hindenburg were businessmen who were taking advantage of the Hindenburg's speed across the ocean - two and a half to three days from Germany to New York, rather than five days on an ocean liner. And, of course, back in 1937 a much larger percentage of business travelers tended to be men.

Other than that, I really don't have an answer as to why there weren't more female passengers on that last Hindenburg flight.

Patrick