<p>The opening of the "Herzog Carl Eduard Herren-Fliegerschule", in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gotha" title="Category:Gotha">Gotha</a> (then Duchy of Saxony-Coburg and Gotha, contemporary Thuringia, Germany) in 1912.<br>
The depicted persons are (from left to right):
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<dl><dd><ul><li>K. Müller, mechanic <i>(it has given both a Karl Müller and a Kurt Müller as aircraft mechanics in 1912)</i></li>
<li>B. Eggert, engineer of the airship station Gotha</li>
<li>Hermann, Lieutenant of the Royal Saxon Railway Regiment No. 2 in Schönberg (Kingdom of Saxony)</li>
<li>Ernst Schlegel (1882-1976), engineer and director of the school</li>
<li>von Osterroth, Lieutenant of the Infantry Regiment No. 152 in Marienburg (then West Prussia, contemporary Malbork in Poland)</li>
<li>Linke, Lieutenant of the Fusilier Regiment No. 34 in Stettin (then West Pomerania, contemporary Szczecin in Poland)</li>
<li>(Kurt ?) von Mirbach, Lieutenant of the Infantry Regiment No. 78 in Braunschweig (then Duchy of Braunschweig, contemporary Lower Saxony, Germany)</li>
<li>Grundel (...or Grindel ?), a mechanic from Berlin</li>
<li>in the aircraft at the steering: Arthur Faller (1887-1965), flight pioneer and teacher of the school for bi-planes</li>
<li>in the airplane as passenger: Geyer, Lieutenant of the Regiment No. 95 in Gotha (then Duchy of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha; contemporary Thuringia, Germany)</li></ul></dd></dl>
This photo was made on the airfield of the flight school in Gotha, shortly after the foundation of the "Herzog Carl Eduard Herren-Fliegerschule" on <time class="dtstart" datetime="1912-04-01" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="white-space:nowrap">1 April 1912</time>.
Editor (paper): <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Oskar_Ursinus" class="extiw" title="de:Carl Oskar Ursinus">Oskar Ursinius</a>; Publisher: Verlag "Flugsport", Frankfurt/Main, Bahnhofsplatz 8
Spring 1912 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1912-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720559</div><i>(probably)</i>
"Flugsport", IV(11), 1912, p.477