The corporate archive of the Zeppelin airship-building limited company in Friedrichshafen fills a depot in the Zeppelin Museum and forms the core holding of the research and competence centre of Zeppelin technology and history.

The archive stores documents on every business transaction of the company, founded in 1908, and its subsidiaries – from the very beginnings through to the 1960s – as well as Count Zeppelin’s correspondence from the time he conceived his airship-building project. 

In addition, the archives contain the estates of important personages of Zeppelin history such as Hugo Eckener, Hans von Schiller or Wilhelm Ernst Dörr. Collections of construction drawings, posters, prints, newspaper cuttings, photographs, films, etc. complete the archive collections. 

A large library with comprehensive stocks on the history of airship aviation and on Friedrichshafen’s industrial past is connected to the archives.