The Hansa was the sister ship of LZ 11 Viktoria Luise, the first of the two G Class Zeppelins built.

The design was an enlargement of LZ 10 Schwaben, lengthened by 7.9 m (26 ft) to accommodate an extra gasbag and fitted with slightly more powerful engines.

From 1912 to 1914 the Hansa was operating mostly from Hamburg and Potsdam, and based in Dresden at the outbreak of the war.

[2] Count Zeppelin commanded the Hansa on the first commercial airship flight from to Denmark and Sweden on 19 September 1912.

Click on the blue globes to see the route taken:[1] During two years of commercial DELAG service it carried 6,217 passengers on 399 flights, covering 44,437 kilometres.