on February 19, 1965, the Lufthansa board authorized the purchase of 21 Boeing 737s – the youngest member of the family of jets from Seattle.
It was primarily Prof. Gerhard Höltje, at the time Lufthansa’s technical Director, who convinced Boeing to build this tailor-made short-haul jet for Lufthansa. on December 28, 1967, Deutsche Lufthansa took delivery of the first “Bobby” of version 737-130.