Rhön Rossitten Society

The Ursinus House of the Rhön-Rossitten Society on the Wasserkuppe at the end of the 1920s

The Ursinus House on the Wasserkuppe in May 2017

The Rhön-Rossitten-Gesellschaft e. V. (RRG) was a German flying club. It was founded on August 31, 1924 at the instigation of “Rhönvater” Oskar Ursinus and the co-founder Karl Kotzenberg to promote gliding with the aim of bringing together aviation and aeronautical research and development. The RRG organized the Rhön competitions from 1925 to 1931 .

The name Rhön-Rossitten company has, the then two main centers of gliding down: the Rhön ( Wasserkuppe ) 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 in 1924 had set a long-term flight record over the dunes of the Curonian Spit and where there was also a gliding school.

Fritz Stamer headed the RRG flight school from 1925 to 1933, Alexander Lippisch was head of the design office. Together they developed the RRG-Zögling training aircraft , which was not only copied by German aviation groups but also under license worldwide. On June 11, 1928, Stamer mastered the first flight of a rocket-propelled glider, the RRG-Duck von Lippisch.

The research department of the RRG was established in Darmstadt in 1925 under Walter Georgii , who carried out further valuable basic research for aviation technology beyond the field of meteorology.

In 1933, the air sports operations of the RRG were integrated into the German Air Sports Association (DLV) as part of the synchronization . This then became the National Socialist Air Corps (NSFK) in 1937 . The RRG research institute was renamed the German Institute for Glider Flight in 1933 and the German Research Institute for Glider Flight (DFS) in 1937 , and under Georgii it was further developed into one of the largest German aviation research institutes.

literature

A. Wilhelm Neuberger: The engineering school for aviation technology . Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-3051-6 .
Peter Riedel: Experienced Rhön History 1911–1926 Volume I “Start in the Wind” . Motorbuch, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-87943-539-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Sabine Hock : A rich man who could never say no. In: sabinehock.de. Retrieved on December 6, 2015 (published in the FAZ on October 11, 1990).
↑ Peter Riedel: From slope wind to thermal . In: Experienced Rhön history . tape II . Motorbuch, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-87943-981-8 , p. 29 .
^ Sketch of the RRG pupil Archived copy ( Memento from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Example of a replica of the RRG pupil: Akaflieg Karlsruhe Archived copy ( Memento from September 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Replica of the RRG duck in the German Gliding Museum (Wasserkuppe) Archived copy ( Memento from February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

[Hock-1] Sabine Hock : A rich man who could never say no. In: sabinehock.de. Retrieved on December 6, 2015 (published in the FAZ on October 11, 1990).

[2] Peter Riedel: From slope wind to thermal . In: Experienced Rhön history . tape II . Motorbuch, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-87943-981-8 , p. 29 .

[3] Sketch of the RRG pupil Archived copy ( Memento from July 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Example of a replica of the RRG pupil: Akaflieg Karlsruhe Archived copy ( Memento from September 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

[5] Replica of the RRG duck in the German Gliding Museum (Wasserkuppe) Archived copy ( Memento from February 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )