freight air transport
Lufthansa
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
- Headquarters
- Cologne
- Founded
- 1926
- Employees
- 100,290
Synchronizing…
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freight air transport
Deutsche Lufthansa AG
Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Deutsche Lufthansa AG (German: [ˌdɔʏtʃə ˈlʊfthanzaː ʔaːˈɡeː] ), trading as Lufthansa Group, is a German aviation holding company. Its principal airline, Lufthansa German Airlines (branded as Lufthansa) is the flag carrier of Germany. Lufthansa Group is the second-largest airline group in Europe by passengers carried, as well as largest in Europe and fourth largest in the world by revenue. Lufthansa Airlines is also one of the five founding members of Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance, established in 1997.
Lufthansa Group owns several other airlines, including Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines, Discover Airlines, Eurowings, ITA Airways, and Swiss International Air Lines. The group also owns several aviation-related companies, including Global Load Control, Lufthansa Consulting, Lufthansa Flight Training, Lufthansa Systems and Lufthansa Technik.
The modern Deutsche Lufthansa AG was founded as Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) on 6 January 1953 by staff of the former Deutsche Luft Hansa, Germany's national airline founded in 1926. While Deutsche Luft Hansa played a significant role in the development of commercial aviation in Germany, it was liquidated in 1951 due to its association with the Nazi regime during World War II. Luftag adopted the branding of the former flag carrier by acquiring the Luft Hansa name and logo in 1954.
People
Officers and directors as recorded in open reference data. This reflects the most recent statement in the source, not a filing date — check the company's own disclosures before relying on it.
Board
Board member
Erhard Milch
1892–1972
German officer, NSDAP, most recently field marshal in the Third Reich, war criminal (1892–1972)
Photo: Hubmann, Hanns · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · file
Corporate profile
Reported financials
Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.
Revenue
37.6bn EUR
Reported for 2024
Operating income
1.5bn EUR
Reported for 2024
Net profit
1.4bn EUR
Reported for 2024
Total assets
47.1bn EUR
Reported for 2024
Total equity
11.5bn EUR
Reported for 2024
Corporate structure
Parent company
Lufthansa Group
Subsidiaries and units (12)
Fleet on record
Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Lufthansa. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By vessel type
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5065524 | Unclassified | — | 1937 | — | — | — | — |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Lufthansa is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Germany is the country of registration for 147 commercial operators in this directory, among which Lufthansa ranks 61st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 640 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Germany.
Founded in 1926, Lufthansa is 100 years old. This directory holds 43 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q9325, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Lufthansa on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
Board member
Carl August Freiherr von Gablenz
1893–1942
German aviator (1893-1942)
Photo: Von Gablenz/Lufthansa · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file
Board member
Reinhardt Abraham
1929–1995
German manager (1929–1995)
Board member
Walter Luz
1898–1969
Board member
Christina Foerster
Board member
Michael Niggemann
1974
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| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 1 |
Columbia Shipmanagement
51 on record · est. 1995
