Comments on: Max Schmeling on the Hindenburg https://www.airships.net The Graf Zeppelin, Hindenburg, U.S. Navy Airships, and other Dirigibles Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 By: Wayne Hanson https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-652722 Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:40:24 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-652722 The history of Smelling and the airship are something. I am glad he did not take that flight. It is safe to fly in one in Freidrchshaven, Germany nowadays. I have been there– done that.-Wayne Hanson

]]> By: david helms https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-633782 Wed, 15 Feb 2017 22:32:52 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-633782 In reply to Bleckman.

have several letters from scheming and a good many photos of him on birthdays 94-98. a great humanitarian

]]> By: david helms https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-632236 Fri, 27 Jan 2017 04:23:28 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-632236 it has been thrilling researching and collecting information about the hindenburg and other airships over the past 25 years. made some great contacts, been to the crash site and toured the gigantic hanger twice. made contacts with 3 or 4 german crewmen years ago aboard the hindenburg when she crashed. great stuff. corresponded with max schmeling over a period of about 8 years. interviewed a lady in S.C. whose family rode on the hindenburg in 1936. she is now 90 yrs old.

]]> By: Bleckman https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-570420 Mon, 11 May 2015 22:55:33 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-570420 In reply to david helms.

Hi David…
Can you drop me an email re: Schmeling? I’m doing some research for a piece on him and I’m curious as to what ‘cha got… will explain more. Thank you!
Best,
G. Bleckman

]]> By: David K https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-36592 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:40:55 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-36592 Hindenburg
A passenger on the June 24-June 26, Lakehurst-Frankfurt flight was Prof. Robert Alexander MacLean of University of Rochester (NY) – the Schmeling trip. He wrote a short account of it while over the Atlantic for publication in his university’s magazine (MacLean, R. A. (1936) “Written in the sky”, Rochester Alumni Review 14.5: 110-111 – available online). Other passengers he mentions include included Dr Eckener and Hugo Stinnes, son of the German industrialist of the same name, and unnamed American millionaires whom he seems not much to admire. I wonder if there is a surviving passenger list for that flight and any photographs or biographical details of the passengers including MacLean. What does it say abut MacLean that he was able to participate in such a flight?

]]> By: neil H. Wenberg https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-29651 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:52:28 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-29651 A very intersting article both on Max S. and the Hindenburg Airship

]]> By: Jasonwallace https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-21939 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:17:29 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-21939 In reply to david helms.

Dear Mr Helms Count ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin died in 1917 and Dr Hugo Eckener died in 1954 as for were they are buried not sure on that! but i wish you all the best in your future endeavours into Airship /Zeppelin History i too have been studying them for 5 yrs or more and it is rather intriguing as i believe that airships will once again grace our skies!

i would love to see your collection sometime and discuss airships as i am sure you would know a damnsite more than i do im sure what you might have to say will be very interesting!!.

Regards Jason Wallace

]]> By: event management solutions https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-5982 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:21:08 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-5982 Sounds like Schmeling lead a very interesting life, especially the part about him being torn when it came to being a Nazi. Makes you wonder how many Hitler followers were the same. I haven’t read much about the Hindenburg disaster so I’ll have to read up on that.

]]> By: david helms https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-5668 Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:36:33 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-5668 In reply to david helms.

hi peter. i did correspond with max schmeling over a period of 7 years or so. he did write me a short letter in german mentioning his trip back home aboard the hindenburg in 1936 after he defeated joe louis. beyond that he would send me pictures of himself :birthday photos, etc.,which i have framed. i am truly proud and feel privileged to have corresponded with him up until his death.

david

]]> By: Peter Sever https://www.airships.net/hindenburg/flight-schedule/max-schmeling/#comment-5586 Thu, 12 Aug 2010 03:43:51 +0000 https://www.airships.net/?page_id=3059#comment-5586 In reply to david helms.

Mr Helms,
I would love to hear about your conversations with Max Schmeling. Any info would be greatly appreciated. I am working on a fictional as well as a documentary account of the two years between the Joe Louis fights.
Please feel free to email or call. My phone number is 703-922 7503.
Thank you.

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