Editing Lufthansa (section)

=== Headquarters ===
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[[File:LH-HQ, Köln-Deutz, Front 3.jpg|thumb|Lufthansa's former headquarters in Deutz, Cologne]]

Lufthansa's corporate headquarters are in Cologne. In 1971, Lawrence Fellows of ''[[The New York Times]]'' described the then-new headquarters building that Lufthansa occupied in Cologne as "gleaming".<ref>{{cite news |last=Fellows |first=Lawrence |date=12 July 1971 |title=Germans Setting Own Office Hours |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/12/archives/germans-setting-own-office-hours-some-german-workers-set-their-own.html |url-status=live |work=The New York Times |location=Cologne |page=1 |quote=At Lufthansa's gleaming new office building here, and at many other offices and factories around West Germany, men and women now go to work when they want and stay as long as they want – within reason. |access-date=14 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819232819/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/12/archives/germans-setting-own-office-hours-some-german-workers-set-their-own.html |archive-date=19 August 2020}}</ref> In 1986, [[Revolutionary Cells (German group)|left-wing terrorists]] bombed the building.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-28-mn-8217-story.html |url-status=live |title=Terrorists Shoot Berlin Official, Bomb Airline |work=Los Angeles Times |agency=[[UPI]] |place=West Berlin |date=28 October 1986 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220215234603/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-10-28-mn-8217-story.html |archive-date=15 February 2022}}</ref> No one was injured.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/29/world/around-the-world-bomb-rips-offices-of-lufthansa-in-cologne.html |url-status=live |title=Bomb Rips Offices of Lufthansa in Cologne |department=Around the World |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=29 October 1986 |access-date=24 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203234556/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/29/world/around-the-world-bomb-rips-offices-of-lufthansa-in-cologne.html |archive-date=3 February 2021}}</ref> In 2006, builders laid the first stone of the new Lufthansa headquarters in [[Deutz, Cologne]]. By the end of 2007, Lufthansa planned to move 800 employees, including the company's finance department, to the new building.<ref>"[http://www.kfz.net/autonews/grundsteinlegung-fuer-lufthansa-hauptverwaltung-in-koeln/ Grundsteinlegung für Lufthansa Hauptverwaltung in Köln] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604143346/http://www.kfz.net/autonews/grundsteinlegung-fuer-lufthansa-hauptverwaltung-in-koeln/ |date=4 June 2013 }}." KFZ.net. Retrieved on 12 February 2010. "Die Lufthansa hat mit einer Grundsteinlegung in Köln-Deutz den Beginn der Arbeiten für ihre neue Kölner Konzernzentrale gefeiert. Ende 2007 werden rund 800 Kölner Lufthanseaten, vor allem aus dem Konzernressort Finanzen, das Hochhaus am Rhein verlassen und in den nur wenige hundert Meter entfernten Neubau umziehen, erklärte das Unternehmen."</ref> However, in early 2013, Lufthansa revealed plans to relocate its head office from Cologne to Frankfurt by 2017.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hofmann |first=Kurt |date=20 February 2013 |title=Lufthansa deepens cuts; to close head office in Cologne |work=[[Aviation Week Network]] |url=https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/safety-ops-regulation/lufthansa-deepens-cuts-close-head-office-cologne |url-status=live |access-date=9 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528125053/http://atwonline.com/operations/lufthansa-deepens-cuts-close-head-office-cologne |archive-date=28 May 2013}}</ref>

Several Lufthansa departments are not at the headquarters; instead, they are in the Lufthansa Aviation Center at Frankfurt Airport. These departments include Corporate Communications and Investor Relations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/newsroom/contact-person.html |title=Media Contact |publisher=Lufthansa Group |access-date=15 February 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216022505/https://www.lufthansagroup.com/en/newsroom/contact-person.html |archive-date=16 February 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://investor-relations.lufthansagroup.com/en/service/contact-person.html |title=Contacts Investor Relations |newspaper=Lufthansa Group Investor Relations |publisher=Lufthansa Group |access-date=15 February 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506023144/https://investor-relations.lufthansagroup.com/en/service/contact-person.html |archive-date=6 May 2021}}</ref> The innovative high-tech and low-energy Aviation Center with a transparent facade and several indoor gardens was designed by [[Christoph Ingenhoven]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=ingenhoven architects · Lufthansa Aviation Centre |url=https://divisare.com/projects/370269-ingenhoven-architects-lufthansa-aviation-centre |access-date=12 May 2023 |website=Divisare |language=en |archive-date=12 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512065115/https://divisare.com/projects/370269-ingenhoven-architects-lufthansa-aviation-centre |url-status=live }}</ref>