Wolf Lemke

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Wolf Lemke is a designer of gliders who worked for Rolladen Schneider and after it was taken over in 2003, for DG Flugzeugbau GmbH.

Wolf Lemke graduated from the Akaflieg Darmstadt where he was one of the students who designed the revolutionary D36 (another was Gerhard Waibel). After leaving the Akaflieg, he built a second D36 in his cellar. He almost killed himself in it when he took a winch launch with a disconnected elevator but he parachuted to safety. He was soon designing new gliders. His most significant design was the LS1 which he first flew in May 1967. It was built by Walter Schneider, at first under the name Segelflugzeugbau Schneider OHG, but later as Rolladen Schneider Flugzeugbau GmbH. Two prototypes flew in the German Championships in 1968 and took the first two places out of 44 competitors in the Standard Class. All gliders designed by him to date have the designation LS (Lemke and Schneider)