Berthold Seliger research and development company

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The Berthold Seliger research and development company mbH was one of Berthold Seliger Founded in 1961, company that dealt with the development and construction of prototypes of sounding rockets and this in Watts area of Cuxhaven started. The Berthold Seliger Research and Development Company Ltd. cooperated strongly with the Hermann Oberth Society , of which Berthold Seliger was a member.

The first rocket developed by Berthold Seliger Forschungs und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH was an improved cumulus rocket , which launched on November 19, 1962 and reached a summit height of 50 kilometers. It was followed on February 7, 1963 by a two-stage rocket with a peak height of 80 kilometers and on May 2, 1963 by a three-stage rocket with a peak height of over 100 kilometers. The latter rocket is likely to have reached the highest altitude of all rockets developed in post-war Germany. All radio signals sent by these rockets were also received in the Bochum observatory .

In the period that followed, the company focused on improving the control system for the missiles it had developed, including missiles that could be used for military purposes. On December 5, 1963, Berthold Seliger Forschungs und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH gave a flight demonstration of various single- and two-stage missiles to military representatives from non-NATO countries. Although these rockets were launched with a reduced propellant charge in order not to violate the Allied regulations regarding the development of military rockets in Germany, and were also not deployable weapons systems, after this heavily controversial demonstration, the rocket tests of the Hermann Oberth Society and the Berthold Seliger Research and Development Company Ltd. in the Wadden area of ​​Cuxhaven observed with great suspicion. In 1964, after a fatal accident during a rocket demonstration by Gerhard Zucker in Braunlage , who incidentally did not work in any form with either the Berthold Seliger Research and Development Company or the Hermann Oberth Society, they were given a temporary injunction that was up to continues today, discontinued.

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