Zeppelin and Garrison Museum Tønder

The museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays between 10 pm and 3 pm from May until October.

Kapitänleutnant Robert Koch

08.12.1886 - 17.03.1917

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Kptlt. Robert Koch

Flown with the following airships:

Commanding Officer of SL 3 from October 23, 1915 until December 11, 1915 (13 sorties).

Commanding Officer of L 24 from May 22, 1916 until October 2, 1916 (33 sorties).

Commanding Officer of L 39 from December 18, 1916 until his death on March 17, 1917 (26 sorties).
Shot down over England near Campiegne.

72 sorties in all.


Served at the following bases:

Nordholz, Tønder, Hage, Friedrichshafen, Ahlhorn.