Wolf Lemke
Wolf Lemke (* 1937 or 1938 ; † December 1, 2018 ) was a German sailplane designer who worked for Rolladen Schneider.
He studied at the TU Darmstadt , was a member of Akaflieg and in the team of Klaus Holighaus , Gerhard Waibel and Heiko Fries, which designed and built the revolutionary D-36. He designed the wing and wing profile for this aircraft. At the same time, Walter Schneider privately built another D-36.
Lemke-Schneider
After completing his studies, he received an offer from Franz Xaver Wortmann to work at the University of Stuttgart and he almost supervised a planned series production of the Akaflieg Braunschweig SB 7 . Instead, he was recruited by Walter Schneider to help set up the newly founded Rolladen Schneider Flugzeugbau . His first design, the LS1 , was a resounding success. In 1968 Helmut Reichmann and Walter Schneider achieved the first two places in the German gliding championship. Helmut Reichmann became world champion in the standard class in 1970. Apart from the single pieces LS2 , the LSD "Ornith" as the first two-seater in GRP construction, the LS5 and the motorized LS9 , all of his designs were great successes, but above all the LS4 . It became the most popular and successful plastic glider in the 15 m class.
At the end of 2001 he retired and supported, for example, Akaflieg Darmstadt and Akaflieg Cologne, and operated the approval of the single LS5.
In 2003, Rolladen Schneider filed for bankruptcy . The last machine, which bore the name LS, was designed by Werner "Micro" Scholz and manufactured by Glaser-Dirks as the LS10 . The company also resumed series production of the popular LS8 in 2015 .
literature
- Georg Brütting : The most famous gliders. Motorbuch Verlag, ISBN 3-87943-171-X
- On the death of Wolf Lemke. In: aerokurier , No. 3/2019, pp. 88-89
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lemke, wolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German sailplane designer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1937 or 1938 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st December 2018 |