Dear Customer, on 4 November 2025, we will be conducting an inventory. On this day, no parcels can be sent and our shop will be closed. Our vending machine will also be out of service for the inventory. As all our employees will be actively involved in this, we will not be able to offer advice by telephone or email on this day.
On 1 September 1880, Rudolf Eisenschmidt started a publishing house in Berlin, which soon experienced rapid growth. Only a few years later in 1887, the company started a wholesale and retail business for maps. By the time the Second World War started, the R. Eisenschmidt GmbH company had become the largest German map dealer and was the main distributor for the official maps for the national mapping agencies of Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland.
In September 1909, the first chart for airships made its debut at the first International Airship Exhibition in Frankfurt. This chart was the forerunner of today's aeronautical charts. The creator of the chart, a lieutenant-colonel called Modebeck, already had a publishing house in mind, the firm Rudolf Eisenschmidt, that would market maps for the whole world.
A special chart just for aviation was an entirely new idea and went down in aviation history. Another first came in 1928. Eisenschmidt published the first aeronautical information publication for Germany, which included approach charts for aerodromes. After World War II, general aviation was banned in Germany. As a consequence, Eisenschmidt went back to publishing just general-purpose maps. Until the year 1961 when the Federal Administration of Air Navigation Services recognised the expertise in sales and aviation that had once existed in the firm and chose it to be the sales channel for its official publications for pilots.
... the company is located at the largest general aviation airport in Germany, Egelsbach. At 135 years old, it is the oldest aviation publisher in the world.
It has been owned by DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH since July 2013 and has been completely modernized since then. Until then, the product range included non-aviation products, but since then Eisenschmidt has been fully dedicated to the needs of pilots in general aviation. Pilotshop, which focuses on the needs of pilots in general aviation.Â
In addition to official aviation publications and training materials, the aviation supplies retailer's portfolio also includes training material as well as technical accessories for flight preparation and flight operations. To this day Eisenschmidt is still active as a publisher and publishes its own books and digital products for the aviation sector. Â
Eisenschmidt is also an expert when it comes to the training and further education of pilots. In addition to training material (print and digital), seminars on further training and lots of free information for pilots and offered for pilots and student pilots.
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