Lufthansa was was originally founded by a coalition of the companies Deutsche Aero Lloyd (DAL) and Junkers Luftverkehrs in Berlin in January 1926 under the name Luft Hansa. 6 April of the same year, began the traffic operated with a fleet of 162 aircraft of 18 different types. Lufthansa was from the beginning a worldwide airline and flew already in its first year of operations to China, a route that got a lot of attention. In the late 1920s Lufthansa was a driving force in the launch of numerous other companies, such as the Spanish airline Iberia, Brazilian Syndicato Condor and Chinese Eurasia Airways.
In 1933 the name was changed to Lufthansa, and in the 1930s Lufthansa started mail and passenger flights across the Atlantic. At the outbreak of war in 1939 Lufthansa had just opened new routes to Bangkok and Santiago de Chile, but apart from a few routes in Europe, Lufthansa routes was canceled during World War II. In 1945 the rest of the traffic was canceled and the airline was liquidated. The company was still not formally liquidated until 1951.
In 1951, plans for a new German airline started in the western Allied occupation zone (West Germany) under the direction of Hans M. Bongers, who before the war was head of Lufthansa in Cologne. In January 1953 the Aktiengesellschaft für Luftverkehrsbedarf (Luftag) founded in Cologne. They bought the rights to the brand name Lufthansa (including logo) and took this in 1954. The company was until 1962 almost completely state-owned. Since 1997, Lufthansa completely privatized.
Then Lufthansa rapidly build its new grid based in Hamburg, which was Lufthansa's home base.
Lufthansa was one of the five airlines who established the Star Alliance in 1997, a global alliance where SAS, Air Canada, Singapore Airlines, United Airlines, Thai and All Nippon are included. Lufthansa is today one of the worlds biggest airlines.
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