Photo gallery:
100 years of ZF - Zeppelins, gears, transmissions and more ...

Advertising poster for the standard transmission in 1926

Launch of the LZ1 on July 2, 1900 in Manzell

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin - military man, visionary and inventor

Publication of the entry in the commercial register of the district court of Tettnang on September 9, 1915

The first factory building of the gear factory from 1919

Alfred Graf von Soden-Fraunhofen - ZF's first managing director and board member

Alfred Colsman - former director of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH and co-founder of ZF

Alfred Graf von Soden-Fraunhofen (2nd from right) first Managing Director and CEO of Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen together with his management team

ZF exhibition with Soden gearbox in 1924

The first gearbox with helical timing and gear wheels ("Aphon gearbox") in 1927

Machinery of the gear factory with the first Maag machines

Privy Councillor Ernst Sachs, co-founder of the "Schweinfurter Präcisions-Kugellager-Werke Fichtel & Sachs"

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Friedrichshafen_ZF_Wohnblock_Platanenstr_1970 In the 1950s, ZF began a rental housing program for its employees

Departure of the nine ZF employees to Brazil on April 13, 1959

Shock absorber test bench - Services solutions have been ensuring mobility worldwide for decades, since the 1970s