Deutschland Silver Medal 1929 Auf die Erste Weltfahrt des Zeppelin

Germany Medal 1929 On the first world voyage of the Zeppelin.In August 1929 Graf Zeppelin departed for another daring enterprise: a circumnavigation of the globe. The growing popularity of the "giant of the air" made it easy for Eckener to find sponsors. One of these was the American press tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who requested that the tour officially start in Lakehurst. As with the October 1928 flight to New York, Hearst had placed a reporter, Grace Marguerite Hay Drummond-Hay, on board: she therefore became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by air. From there, Graf Zeppelin flew to Friedrichshafen, then Tokyo, Los Angeles, and back to Lakehurst, in 21 days 5 hours and 31 minutes. Including the initial and final trips between Friedrichshafen and Lakehurst and back, the dirigible had travelled 49,618 kilometres (30,831 mi).
In the following year, Graf Zeppelin undertook trips around Europe, and following a successful tour to Recife, Brazil in May 1930, it was decided to open the first regular transatlantic airship line. This line operated between Frankfurt and Recife, and was later extended to Rio de Janeiro, with a stop in Recife. Despite the beginning of the Great Depression and growing competition from fixed-wing aircraft, LZ 127 transported an increasing volume of passengers and mail across the ocean every year until 1936. The ship made another spectacular voyage in July 1931 when it made a seven-day research trip to the Arctic. This had already been a dream of Count von Zeppelin twenty years earlier, which could not be realised at the time due to the outbreak of war.
Grade: VF-EF, Kratzer, fleckig
Material: Silver
Weight: 19.77 g
Diameter: 36.00 mm
Silbermedaille 1929. (Signatur R).

Vs.: Büste von Graf Zeppelin über den Büsten von Eckener und Dürr
Rs.: Adler n. r., darunter Globus zwischen zwei Sternen
Randpunze: BAYER. HAUPTMÜNZAMT FEINSILBER

Code: 23717