2-702-082 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Klemm L 20 plane, 1920s, (1932). German sportsplane with 20 horse power air-cooled Mercedes engine. In 1928, German aviator Friedrich Karl von Koenig-Warthausen (1906-1986) made a solo flight to Moscow in a Klemm L.20. He decided to keep going, circumnavigating the world and winning the Hindenburg Cup, the highest German honour for aeronautical achievement. From "Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air), cigarette card album produced by the Garbáty cigarette factory, 1932. Eugene and Moritz Garbáty, who were Jewish, were driven out of business by the Nazis in the late 1930s, and forced to sell their factory which lay empty for over 70 years. [Garbaty Cigarettenfabrik, Berlin-Pankow, 1932]