Background
Count Zeppelin had been devoting his energies to the design of large rigid-framed airships since his retirement from the Army in 1890. In 1898 he established the Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Luftschifffahrt. The company had a subscribed capital of 800,000 marks, of which Zeppelin contributed 300,000 marks: the remainder was provided by various industrialists, including 100,000 marks contributed by Carl Berg, whose company provided the aluminium framework of the airship. The company first constructed a large floating shed to contain the airship. This arrangement was decide on firstly because Zeppelin believed that landing the ship over water would be safer and secondly because the floating shed, moored only at one end, would turn so that it was always facing into the wind.
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