German Triangular Tail Sections

Okay,

The design philosophy of the various national aircraft producers is fascinating.

The one characteristic that seems to be common amoung all german aircraft is the presence of huge horizontal stabilizers in the tail section that tended to be V shaped. This is true on Roland, Pfalz, and LVG.

While british stabilizers seemed to remain relatively small and rectangular by comparison, not a whole lot of innovation going on there. (this is my perception based on looking at 3 Views).

My question is, how is it that German Aircraft designers locked onto the triangular horizontal stabilizer concept seemingly so fully?

Before the war Germany had the most advanced airship designs. It could be that the concept of large triangular stabilizers of those ships could have carried over into heavier than air design.

I just noticed too that the Taube had an increadibly large triangular tail

Was the Taube considered a particularly "successful" aircraft?

If you mean successful as in they used a lot of them, then I guess they would qualify. I think it was the Rumpler company that built them and they appear to have been extensively used by the central powers during the earliest part of the war.