Boys, it seems I've been fooled here again by a wrong caption.
The picture looks indeed more like a Bristol-Coanda Monoplane.
But rather it was brought from England it may be possible in the "Deutsche Bristol Werke" in Halberstadt also this type was licence-built, in addition to the 1911 Bristol Monoplane that got in Halberstadt the nickname "Bristol-Schwein".
In the cockpit are the flight teacher von Gienanth and the (well) known pilot from Halberstadt Wolfram Paschen in the rear. The latter did not enter any aircraft without his knitted hat with a long pheasant fether, a souvenir from his girlfriend.
And Kees, to answer your question, the Taube aircraft built by the "Deutsche Bristol Werke" were named "Bristol-Halberstadt". Maybe to refer it beeing a design from the german branch of Bristol.
The book is not that well structured, but it tells the story of the Company.
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page 33: (roughly summarized)
There was a company "Behrens & Kühne" in Oschersleben building aircraft tents and hangars since 1911. Herman Behrens was advertising his company in Berlin when he was asked if he couldn't built aircrafts for the army as well.
Max Heckel (don't know who he was) advised Behrens to get in contact with Bristol. Then among different cities (Magdeburg, Braunschweig,...) Halberstadt was choosen to built the subsidary and in April 1912 the "DEUTSCHE BRISTOL-WERKE m.b.h." was entered in the commercial register. (no specific date given)
Hermann & Gustav Behrens, Eduard Schnebel and Kurt Stockhausen were the shareholder of 55 000 RM, another 200 000 RM was was hold by Bristol.
In May the company took over the "Halberstadter Flugplatzgesellschaft".
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page 46:
In July 1913 the name was changed to "HALBERSTÄDTER FLUGZEUGWERKE Gmbh" and the fund was raised to 400 000 RM, with the same shareholders.
later nothing.
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Bristol was still part of the company until the outbreak of WW1 and I think it was then separated, like many other international enterprises.
If the designes until then were called "Bristol-Halberstadt" or simply "Halberstadt" may differ in contemporary publications.
Cheers
Aquilius