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Luftfahrt-Bundesamt

national civil aviation authority of Germany
Organization Aviation Authority Q1875599

Facts

11 properties

Identity

Instance of
aviation authority, federal office, higher federal authority[3][4]
Official website
www.lba.de[9]
Short name
LBA[11]

Status and dates

Inception
February 1, 1955[7]

Location

Headquarters location
Brunswick, Brunswick[5]
Country
Germany[2]

Industry and activity

Field of work
civil aviation[1]

People

Chairperson
Jörg-Werner Mendel[6]

Relations

Parent organization or unit
Federal Ministry for Transport[8]
More facts +2
Applies to jurisdiction
Germany[10]
Different from
Luftfahrtamt der Bundeswehr[12]
🏷️ Also known as
en Federal Aviation Office en LBA en Luftfahrt-Bundesamt en civil aviation authority of Germany de Deutsche Luftfahrtbundesamt de LBA de Luftfahrtbundesamt es Oficina Federal de Aeronautica Civil es Oficina Federal de Aeronáutica Civil fr Office fédéral allemand de l'aviation civile ja 西ドイツ民間航空局 zh 德國聯邦航空局
🔖 Identifiers · 15
ROR ID
03n983v14
VIAF cluster ID
124972800
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n98050729
GND ID
2117698-X
OpenAlex ID
I3015421309
GRID ID
grid.494247.8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Braunschweig LBA.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
14016810w
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
luftfahrt-bundesamt
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)
2VlFmC
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)
407973
FES digital collections entity ID
383121
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FragDenStaat public body ID
749
Freebase ID
/m/012s8q
Scilit organization ID
84156
📚 Sources · 1
  • GND (DNB) as of 2026-09-30 · 1 statement · CC0 1.0 DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.

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0000 0001 1087 1502 2026-09-30 GND (DNB) (CC0 1.0) as of 2026-09-30
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GND (DNB)
Edition
20260930 · as of 2026-09-30 · newer edition 20261105 landed
Licence
CC0 1.0
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DNB GND open data: CC0 1.0 as stated by data.dnb.de's own /opendata/ listing. Person records (names, birth/death dates and places, gender, occupations, variant names) internal-only; gnd keys of persons marked entity: person.
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🔗 Connections
Applies to jurisdiction 1
Germany
Belongs to 1
Federal Ministry for Transport
Country 1
Germany
Field of work 1
civil aviation
Headquarters location 1
Brunswick
Instance of 1
aviation authority
Parent organization or unit 1
Federal Ministry for Transport
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Federal Ministry for Transport
← Investigated by 1
Munich air disaster
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . lba.de. Retrieved . lba.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . lba.de. Retrieved . lba.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . service.bund.de. Retrieved . service.bund.de. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 17w ago · Nyuhn · 2026-07-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 2VlFmC
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
  2. 20w ago · Printstream · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Chairperson → Jörg-Werner Mendel
    Instance of → aviation authority, federal office, higher federal authority
    Applies to jurisdiction → Germany
    FES digital collections entity ID → 383121
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: FES digital collections entity ID: 383121, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1782398664614"
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