Graf Zeppelin
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Graf Zeppelin may refer to:
- Count Ferdinand von ZeppelinFerdinand von ZeppelinFerdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer. He founded the Zeppelin Airship company...
(1838-1917), German officer and engineer, founder of the Zeppelin airship company ("Graf" is German for "Count") - LZ 127 Graf ZeppelinLZ 127 Graf ZeppelinLZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German built and operated passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship which operated commercially from 1928 to 1937. It was named after the German pioneer of airships, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who was a Graf or Count in the German nobility. During its operating life,...
, the first airship named after Count Zeppelin - LZ 130 Graf ZeppelinLZ 130 Graf ZeppelinThe Graf Zeppelin II was the last of the great German rigid airships built by the Zeppelin Luftschiffbau during the period between the World Wars, the second and final ship of the Hindenburg class named in honor of Paul von Hindenburg...
, the second and less famous airship by the same name - The Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriersGraf Zeppelin class aircraft carrierThe Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers were two German Kriegsmarine aircraft carriers laid down in the mid-1930s as part of the Plan Z rearmament program. Four ships were initially envisioned but reduced to two by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder in 1939...
, two German Kriegsmarine aircraft carriers laid down in the mid-1930s, also named after Count Zeppelin- The German aircraft carrier Graf ZeppelinGerman aircraft carrier Graf ZeppelinGerman aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers ordered by the Kriegsmarine. She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany during World War II and represented part of the Kriegsmarine's attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of...
, the first ship of this class
- The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin
- Graf Zeppelin march, a composition by Carl TeikeCarl TeikeCarl Albert Hermann Teike was a German composer who wrote over 100 military marches and twenty concert works.-Biography:...
- Graf Michael Sepperin, a fictional VampireVampireVampires are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person...
-esque character in Rosenkreuzstilette. His name is a romanization of Zeppelin with an S placed as the first letter instead of a Z.