Aviation Diplomacy und (un-)erwünschte Mobilität am Frankfurter Flughafen, 1945–1990er Jahre

Autor(en)

Nils Robert Güttler, Carolin Liebisch-Gümps

Abstrakt

Today, almost every state visit begins at the airport. Yet air routes not only make diplomatic travel possible, they are also themselves at the center of diplomatic initiatives. Using the case of Frankfurt airport in the second half of the twentieth century, we examine the historical significance of air routes for diplomatic relations, as well as their unintended diplomatic consequences. Considering the airport as a national and regional border area, we understand the diplomacy surrounding air routes as border relations in which states negotiated the opening, shifting, and control of national borders. On the one hand, by highlighting the diplomatic celebrations of inaugural flights, we show that air routes were welcomed by state officials, regional representatives, and private actors as a positive and profitable means of overcoming borders. On the other hand, states regarded certain mobilities as undesirable, turning certain air routes into a kind of border violation and triggering a more problematic form of diplomacy.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Geschichte

Externe Organisation(en)

Leibniz-Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung

Journal

Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften (OeZG)

Band

35

Seiten

90-111

Anzahl der Seiten

22

ISSN

1016-765X

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25365/oezg-2024-35-2-5

Publikationsdatum

11-2024

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

601022 Zeitgeschichte, 601023 Globalgeschichte

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Arts and Humanities(all), History

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/c98d0496-49b1-4c2a-9d8e-5d6cf3b2dd4e