Here is an unusual Graf Zeppelin cover. It came with some other signed items from Hans von Schiller, many years ago. von Schiller has written notes about the oddities of this cover, on the reverse, in his own hand, and signed it.
Von Schiller flew as First Officer in the crew of the legendary Baron Horst von Buttlar-Brandenfels, only officer in the German Navy to get the "Blue Max" for surviving15 bombing missions over England without getting blown out of the sky. He was in command of a minesweeper when Dr.Eckener invited him to join the Zeppelin Company around 1922. He was one of the German officers close to Eckener, was on board the LZ-126/ZR-3 Los Angeles delivery flight in October 1924. He was also an officer aboard Graf Zeppelin (LZ-127) on most of its flights and, in 1937, skipper of the Graf Zeppelin.
Von Schiller was slated to command the new LZ130 in the fall of 1937. He was
in command of the LZ127 GRAF ZEPPELIN, when word arrived by radio that the HINDENBURG had burned With Ernst Lehmann gone, Schiller became Senior Captain and was at the gangplank to meet the surviving HINDENBURG crew when their steamship docked in Germany.
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