What famous corporation, having a flying crane logo, is named from Germany's late-medieval defensive commercial federation the Hanseatic League, and word for 'air'?
Hanseatic League there were some experts who wrote about the resurrection of the Baltic Hansa. The legacy of the Hansa is remembered today in several names: the German airline Lufthansa (i.e., "Air Hansa"); F.C. Hansa Rostock; Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands; Hanze oil production platform, Netherlands; the Hansa Brewery in Bergen and the Hanse Sail in Rostock. DDG Hansa was a major German shipping company from 1881 until its bankruptcy in 1980. Hansabank in the Baltic states has been rebranded into Swedbank). There are two museums in Europe dedicated specifically to the history of the Hanseatic League: the European Hansemuseum
Hanseatic League Hanseatic League The Hanseatic League (; Middle Low German: "Hanse", "Düdesche Hanse", "Hansa"; Standard German: "Deutsche Hanse"; Dutch: "Hanze"; Latin: "Hansa Teutonica") was a commercial and defensive confederation of merchant guilds and market towns in Northwestern and Central Europe. Growing from a few North German towns in the late 1100s, the league came to dominate Baltic maritime trade for three centuries along the coasts of Northern Europe. Hansa territories stretched from the Baltic to the North Sea and inland during the Late Middle Ages, and diminished slowly after 1450. "Hanse", later spelled as "Hansa", was the Old High German word