Max Dieckmann 1882 - 1960
The founder of aeronautical radio research in the Munich area between 1908 and 1944 was Professor Max Dieckmann, head of the Gräfelfing Experimental Station for Wireless Telegraphy and Air Electricity (DVG). Dieckmann's work for DLR's predecessor organisation, the DVG, began as early as 1908, when he – then an assistant at the Technical University of Munich – took it upon himself to rent a meadow on the outskirts of Munich in Gräfelfing in order to carry out air-electric measurements in a small wooden hut.
