Deutsche Luft-Reederei (DLR)

Deutsche Luft-Reederei was established on 17Dec1917 & started operating Berlin to Weimar using converted L.V.G. biplanes on mail runs on 05Feb1919. Ceased operations on 06Feb1923 & renamed to Deutscher Aero-Lloyd
[LUFTHANSA was originally founded in Berlin in 1926 as a consolidated German airline by the merger of DEUTSCHE AERO-LLOYD and JUNKERS LUFTVERKEHR. Acquired AUSTRIAN AIRLINES as a result of the German annexation of Austria in 1939. Went into liquidation as a result of WWII in 1945. In1953, LUFTAG was founded in Colgne and renamed to LUFTHANSA in 1954. This new German airline began operations in 1955]