Zeppelin (disambiguation)

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Zeppelin is a German surname that usually refers to:

• Zeppelin, a rigid airship

It can also refer to:

People

• Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917), German officer, inventor and namesake of the word Zeppelin

Companies

• Luftschiffbau Zeppelin, original Zeppelin company founded by Ferdinand von Zeppelin
• Luftschiffbau Schütte-Lanz, early competitor to the more famous company
• Zeppelin Luftschifftechnik GmbH, the modern company which manufactures the Zeppelin NT
• Zeppelin-Staaken, an aircraft manufacturer

Aircraft, Ships, Vehicles

Airships

• Zeppelin, the historic airships
  • Zeppelin LZ 1, an experimental ship from 1900
  • Zeppelin LZ 2, the first true Zeppelin from 1906
  • LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, famous airship of the 1920s and '30s
  • LZ 130 Graf Zeppelin, sister ship of the Hindenburg
• Zeppelin NT, a modern line of dirigibles

Airplanes

• Zeppelin-Staaken E-4/20, a four-engined all-metal passenger monoplane from 1916
• Zeppelin-Staaken Riesenflugzeuge a series of large bomber aircraft built between 1915 and 1919

Ships

• SS Zeppelin, a German passenger steamship surrendered to the UK and US after World War I
• The Graf Zeppelin class aircraft carrier, two German aircraft carriers laid down in the mid-1930s
  • Graf Zeppelin, the first ship of this class

Vehicles

• Maybach Zeppelin, a luxury car from 1928–34
• Rail zeppelin, an experimental railcar which resembled a zeppelin airship in appearance

Other uses

• Led Zeppelin, a British rock band
• Zeppelin bend, a general purpose bend knot
• Zeppelin (bunker), a World War II communications bunker serving the Wehrmacht headquarters near Zossen, Germany
• Zeppelin (film), a 1971 British film
• Zeppelin Field, the Nazi Party rally grounds in Nuremberg, Germany
• Zeppelin Games or Eutechnyx, a games developer
• Zeppelin mail, mail carried on Zeppelins
• Zeppelin Museum (disambiguation), any of several museums dedicated to airships
• Zeppelin Rammer, a concept weapon of World War II
• Zeppelin (research station), a polar research station on Svalbard, Norway
• Zeppelin (typeface), a typeface designed by Rudolf Koch in 1929
• Zeppelin University, a German university

See also

• ZEPLIN-III, a dark matter experiment.