page_title: Franz Kruckenberg
hierarchical_section_title: Franz Kruckenberg
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Der Schienenzeppelin, der Propellerwagen des deutschen Ing. Kruckenberg, rast mit 230 km Stundengeschwindigkeit von Hamburg nach Berlin. Die verdienstvollen Förderer des Schienenzeppelins von links nach rechts: Ing. Heyner, Ober-Ing. Kruckenberg, Ing. Stedefeld und Ing. Black, welcher den Schienenzeppelin von Hamburg nach Berlin führte.
context_page_description: Franz Friedrich Kruckenberg was an engineer and pioneer of high speed railway systems. He designed several high speed trains. His most famous design was the Schienenzeppelin.
  Kruckenberg was born into an old-established Hamburg merchant family. From 1904 to 1907 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin, graduating in naval engineering. Before World War I he designed aircraft and airships. Even then he already criticised airships because of their explosive hydrogen filling; and the civil use of aircraft because of their high fuel- and maintenance costs.
context_section_description: Franz Friedrich Kruckenberg (* 21 August 1882 in Uetersen, Germany; † 19 June 1965 in Heidelberg) was an engineer and pioneer of high speed railway systems. He designed several high speed trains. His most famous design was the Schienenzeppelin.
  Kruckenberg was born into an old-established Hamburg merchant family. From 1904 to 1907 he studied mechanical engineering at the Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin, graduating in naval engineering. Before World War I he designed aircraft and airships. Even then he already criticised airships because of their explosive hydrogen filling; and the civil use of aircraft because of their high fuel- and maintenance costs.
caption: Kruckenberg (2nd from the left) in front of the Schienenzeppelin
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