Count Berlin (full name: Ferdinand von Zepbling) was born on 8 July 1838 in Konstanz, Germany, and died in Berlin on 8 March 1917.

Count Ziebling was a pioneer of German aviation and the inventor of the large, practical rigid airship. He graduated from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School in Louisburg in 1957 and entered the University of Tübingen in 1858 to study engineering.

He served as an officer of the King's Bodyguard at Wartonburg, an envoy to Berlin, and a cavalry brigade commander, before retiring in 1890 with the rank of lieutenant general.

He entered aviation early on, having completed his first balloon launch in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a military observer for the Confederate Army during the American Civil War (1861-1865).

After being discharged from the army, he built the first cigar-shaped aluminum rigid airship, the LZ-1, in 1900.

The airship is 128 meters long, 11.7 meters in diameter, and has a total volume of about 11,300 cubic meters.

There are two external pods under the hull, each with a 16 hp engine. On July 2, 1900, the airship made its first flight from Lake Constance, Germany.

In 1906, he built two more airships and successfully flew two test flights at a speed of 57.6 kilometers per hour.

For this, the Dresden School of Engineering awarded him an honorary doctorate in engineering. Dedicated to aviation, Zipberin founded it in 1908

"Zieblin Airship Company", they built airships not only for commercial, but also for military use. They loaded airships with artillery, machine guns, bombs and other weapons to bombard enemy military installations, attack submarines, detect minefields and conduct maritime reconnaissance, and in the first ten years alone, the company built 113 military airships that made a name for themselves in the First World War.

Count Ziebling also opened it in 1909

Deutsche Air Transport GmbH, or Delag for short, operates domestic routes and routes between Hamburg and the USA.

Their Zeppelin was the world's first commercial transport vehicle for official air passengers.

On two occasions in 1917, the German Zepberin achieved an endurance of nearly 100 hours.

The Count Zeebling was the first to fly across the Atlantic, and until it was decommissioned in 1937, it flew 590 times, including 144 transoceanic flights, covering a distance of more than 1.6 million kilometres, and in 1929, the airship took about 21 days to circumnavigate the globe, covering a distance of about 35,000 kilometres.

Another famous airship built by the Zipbling company is:

"Hindenburg".

"Hindenburg" was named after the then German president. The airship is 245 meters long, with a maximum diameter of 41.4 meters, a total weight of 195.15 tons, a deadweight of 19.06 tons, and a total volume of 200,000 cubic meters of airbags.

It is equipped with four 1,100 hp diesel engines, with a cruising speed of 121 km/h and a range of up to 200 hours.

The boat was also equipped with a radio station and a telegraph system. Equipped with luxurious guest bedrooms, a dining room, a lounge, a smoking room, and a corridor for strolling, it was the pinnacle of airship manufacturing technology at the time.

Although the airship caught fire in New Jersey on May 6, 1937, killing 36 people in a world-shattering tragedy, its achievements are indelible.

More than a year after its inception, the Hindenburg flew 3,088 hours, with a total range of 332571 kilometers, carried 3,059 passengers, and transatlantic 37 of the 63 commercial flights.