[RolandF]

Hi Ole(?)!

The AKAFLIEGs ("Academic Flyer Groups") had been clubs attached to colleges (i.e. AKAFLIEG Berlin, AKAFLIEG München, AKAFLIEG Hannover etc.) and consisted from members of the colleges, i.e. students and professors, most of them being engineers.

The AKAFLIEGs designed mostly simply-to-build gliders. Founded mostly after WW1 when motor flight was forbidden in Germany the AKAFLIEGs were pressed into Nazi organisations after 1933. Some AKAs survived a certain time designing military planes like the B9 by AKAFLIEG Berlin.
That means the AKAs made their own designs, very much influenced by scientific research. Some produced as single examples, some finding their way to the RLM planners. Finally the AKAFLIEGs were incorporated - not few by force - into the Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (NS German student´s association) or institutes like DVL (Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Luftfahrt).

I don´t know, what´s Wn 16, but I´m sure newly engineer Weitzmann found his way into the German air industry.

Btw, many AKAFLIEGs were refounded after the war and are producing designs and advanced planes up to nowadays.

Hope this helps

Roland

It would be intersting if AKAFLIEG Hannover built their own planes