Stamps series "10th Anniversary of Lufthansa"

Lufthansa Airlines: "Deutsche Lufthansa Aktiengesellschaft" was created on the 6th of January 1926 by the combination of German Aero-Lloyd and Junkers Airlines. The first scheduled flight was 6th April 1926. They had a fleet of 120 planes by that time.

Lufthansa pioneered quite a number of initial long distance flights to all points of the globe. They were also responsible for the experimental catapult flights which incorporated both aircraft and ships for mail transport. The first of these flights was from the S.S. "Bremen" on 22nd June 1929.

In the 10 years of its existence, Lufthansa’s planes had flown 645,000 miles and carried 886,000 passengers and 6,200 tons of air mail. Its South American mail service being the fastest in the world.

In September 1939, all services terminated because of World War II, except for the few services to neutral countries. The full facilities of Lufthansa were taken over by the Luftwaffe.

In April of 1945 on the cessation of World War II, the very few limited services still running, were completely suspended and Lufthansa was officially liquidated on 1st January 1951.

A new company was formed in West Germany on 6th January 1954 and was called "Luftag" – however on 6th August 1954 its name was changed back to "Lufthansa" once more. The Eastern Zone of Germany also called their national airline Lufthansa and also used the same Lufthansa flight bird symbol. However, they discontinued using this name in the 1960’s and modern Germany’s Lufthansa continues to be one of the world’s leading airlines.