Alois Wolfmüller
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Alois Wolfmüller was a German engineer and inventor.
Hildebrand und Wolfmüller, 1894 in Zweirad-Museum Neckarsulm
Commemorative plaque in Landsberg am Lech
Otto Lilienthal
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Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, therefor
Lilienthal, c. 1895
Lilienthal in mid-flight, Berlin c. 1895
Models of his gliders
Restored 1894 glider displayed at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. It is one of five surviving Lilienthal gliders in the world.