2-702-104 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Heinecke parachute made of silk by Schröder & Co, c1918, (1932). Otto Heinecke, a German airship ground crewman, designed a parachute which the German air service introduced in 1918. It wasn't 100% reliable as a third of the first 70 airmen to bail out died, the causes being tangled lines, the canopy fouling on the fuselage or the harness breaking free. 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]