Theodore Kober was a twentieth century German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 aviation

Aviation

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 engineer

Engineer

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 who contributed to the building of the first Zeppelin. As an engineer Kober had worked for a balloon

Balloon (aircraft)

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 manufacturer and in the 1890s Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin was a German general and later aircraft manufacturer. He founded the Zeppelin Airship company...

 enlisted him to produce designs for his airship

Airship

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 concept. After several years he and Zeppelin produced the design for the Zeppelin LZ1. Later, in 1912 he founded the Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen

Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen

Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturing company. It was founded in 1912 in Friedrichshafen, Germany by Theodor Kober who had previously worked for the Zeppelin company. The town, which was located by the Bodensee, was already famous in aviation circles as the place...

 GmbH with financial support from Zeppelin to build over 40% of the German Navy seaplanes during World War I

World War I

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