Rhön-Rossitten Gesellschaft

The Rhön- Rossitten - Gesellschaft eV ( RRG ) was a German flying club. It was founded in 1924 at the instigation of " Rhön father " Oskar Ursinus to promote gliding sport with the aim of Aviation and flight scientific research and development together.

The name Rhön- Rossitten Society has, the then two main centers of gliding down: the Rhön (water crest ) with the since 1920 discharged annually soaring competitions and the first gliding school in the world ( Artur Martens gliding school ) and Rossitten ( East Prussia ), where Ferdinand Schulz 1924 had set a record duration flight over the dunes of the Curonian Spit and where also there was a gliding school.

The flight school the RRG conducted from 1925 to 1933 Fritz Stamer; Alexander Lippisch was head of the design office. Both developed along the plane RRG - school pupil, which was copied not only by German air sports groups, but worldwide under license. On June 11, 1928 Stamer mastered the first flight of a rocket-powered glider, the RRG Duck of Lippisch.

The research department of the RRG was created in 1925 in Darmstadt, Prof. Walter Georgii, who ran more valuable basic research for the aviation technology of the field of meteorology addition.

1933 has been integrated as part of the Gleichschaltung of air sports operation of the RRG in the German Air Sports Association (DLV ). That was then, 1937, the National Socialist Flying Corps ( NSFK ). The Research Institute of the RRG was renamed in 1933 German Institute for Gliding and 1937 in German Research Institute for Gliding (DFS ) and further developed under Georgii one of the great German aviation research institutes.