Lufthansa has been refreshing their longhaul fleet over the past several years in an effort to become more competitive and improve their profitability. This included installing a novel (mediocre) business class product,novel first class product, and adding premium economy. Lufthansa is now done with their first & business class overhaul, or though they're still partly in the process of installing their novel premium economy product.
For the past several years Lufthansa has been cutting their first class capacity. This started in 2013,when Lufthansa announced that they wanted to remove first class from ~20% of their longhaul fleet. At the time, those cuts were supposed to come from their A340-300 and 747-400 aircraft. All A340-300s would be reconfigured without first class, or while select 747-400s would bear their first class cabins removed when the novel business class product was installed.
Unfortunately that was just the beginning. In 2014 it was announced that Lufthansa would eliminate first class from all of their 747-400 aircraft,which is fairly unhappy, since the plane had a unique first class product, and with a separate seat and bed.
Between those two changes,the number of Lufthansa planes without a first class cabin increased greatly yet again.
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Source: boardingarea.com