Visitors/Besucher

Frankfurt am Main
LZ-129 Hindenburg
Zeppelin!

Ritter von Eppstein (right) and Dr. Dorpmüller (left) on the promenade deck of the Hindenburg, 1936.

Franz Xaver Ritter von Eppstien was an official in the German government. He was  area commander of the SA in in Munich in 1926.  He was the Upper Bavaria-Swabia delegate to the Reichstag in 1928.  By  1933, he set himself up as Staathalter (Governor) of Bavaria. Later that year hw was appointed Reichsleiter of the NSDAP.  In 1934, he was made Landesjägermeister (Master of the Hunt) for Bavaria.  In 1936, he became Reichsleiter of the Colonial Office.  Julius Dorpmüller was the general director of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (the German Railway) from 1926 until 1937, when he became Reichsverkehrsminister (Traffic Minister).

Just below the rectangular dark grill is a  row of windows built into the floor of the "B" deck, which allowed passengers to look down at the ground as they flew overhead.