Lutz Kayser
Lutz Tilo Ferdinand Kayser (born March 31, 1939 in Stuttgart ; † November 19, 2017 on Bikendrik Island in the Marshall Islands ) was a German aircraft manufacturer, rocket technician and aerospace engineer.
Life
His father, the chemist Ludwig Kayser, was a board member of Süddeutsche Zucker AG . His brother Manfred became managing director of the Dornier works in Lindau .
Lutz Kayser visited the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart, when he 1955-56 founding member of by Eugen Sänger -led consortium for rocketry and astronautics at the University of Stuttgart e. V. was. Here he made friends with Wolfgang Pilz . He completed his engineering studies in aeronautics and space travel at the University of Stuttgart in 1968 with the diploma exam.
He worked at the Institute for Space Propulsion in Lampoldshausen. In 1970 he founded Technologieforschungs GmbH in Stuttgart .
From 1975 to 1987 Kayser developed the OTRAG concept. While looking for a starting point in Indonesia and South America, he happened upon a financier who helped organize Rumble in the Jungle (1974) in Zaire. After the near bankruptcy and restructuring settlement, he had to cede the chairmanship to Frank Wukasch in 1981 .
After that, Kayser lived for a long time in Tripoli and developed updraft power plants . In 2002 he was Professor and Director of Technical Education at the Libyan Academy of Sciences.
He became CEO and President of Braun Debus Kayser's Rocket Science firm in Wilmington, Delaware. In 2007, Kayser settled in the Marshall Islands . In 2008 he joined Interorbital Systems .
Publications
- Investigations on a two-fuel hot gas rocket engine for orbit and attitude control TIROC (Federal Ministry for Research and Technology. Research report . Space research); Central Office for Aerospace Documentation and Information (ZLDI) of the German Research and Research Institute for Aerospace. 1973
- with others: The international system of units: conversion factors for all English and German units of measurement in the SI editor . 1967
literature
- Cheap porters from the bush . In: Die Zeit , No. 9/1979
documentary
- Fly, Rocket, Fly! - With machetes to the stars , documentary, director: Oliver Schwehm , Belgium, Germany, Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, USA 2018, 90 minutes; Kinostar film distribution.
Web links
- Lutz Kayser in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
- Lutz Kayser in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ^ RIP Lutz Kayser - German Rocket Pioneer . In: Lin Kayser . ( linkayser.com [accessed November 21, 2017]).
- ↑ Then Germany would be a leader in the world . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1978, pp. 52-65 ( online ).
- ↑ Michael Ohnewald: A Swabian Ascension Command. (PDF; 569 kB) In: Stuttgarter Zeitung. June 30, 2007, p. 3 , accessed March 3, 2011 .
- ↑ Extravaganzas with Gaddafi . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1981, pp. 74-78 ( online ).
- ↑ Bernd Leitenberger: OTRAG rocket. Retrieved March 3, 2011 .
- ↑ Michael Ohnewald: Between the fronts of the Cold War. (PDF; 406 kB) In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung 36/2010. September 12, 2010, p. 6 , accessed March 3, 2011 .
- ↑ Fly, Rocket, Fly! at filmportal.de ; otrag.com , website for the film; official trailer , YouTube; accessed August 2, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kayser, Lutz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kayser, Lutz Tilo Ferdinand |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German aircraft manufacturer, rocket technician and aerospace engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 31, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th November 2017 |
| Place of death | Bikendrik Island, Marshall Islands |