The unnamed LZ-131, on which work had just commenced in late 1939 and would never progress further than the single a main hull ring completed before the scrapping order came down in 1940, was to be named “Peter Strasser” according to longstanding speculation and rumor. However, there is no known Zeppelin Company documentation that either supports and or disproves this.

While this is technically correct, to specify for clarity, only the 119 rigid airships constructed by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, GmbH at Friedrichshafen, or at one of its WW I satellite factories of Staaken, Potsdam or Löwenthal, can and should be identified as “Zeppelins”

The 20 wooden hulled ships constructed by their rival, Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz, GmbH at Mannheim, the 17 constructed by various British companies, the three built by The Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. in the US, and the lone ship built by France are all correctly identified as Rigid Airships.

Airship or Zeppelin are the correct terms. A blimp is a non-rigid design.

Adolf Hitler comes to mind.

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Ola,sim,eu adora este typo de Aeronave!o Zeppelin fui uma construçao muit legal,hoje tem aqui na Europa umas pequenas Zeppelins para passear com Touristas!

The joke I always figured was that the LZ-130 could have been named the Ludendorff after the WW 1 German General.My thinking of this and I am not really being serious is that Field Marshal Von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff worked hand in hand during the war especially at the battle of Tannenberg so you would have had the Hindenburg and the Ludendorff in service for the Fatherland again at the same time.On a serious note the best I can do on the name was quoting from page 101 of Manfred Bauer/Johns Duggan’s excellent book LZ 130 “Graf Zeppelin” and the End of Commercial Airship Travel the rumored name for it was Grossdeutsches Reich.