Hans Jacobs
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Hans Jacobs was a German sailplane designer and pioneer. As the head of the Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug (DFS - German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight) at Darmstadt in the years before World War II, he was responsible for a number of highly successful designs, including the DFS Habicht, DFS Kranich, and the DFS 230 assault glider.
When the prohibition on German aviation under the Allied occupation ended in 1951, Jacobs designed and marketed an updated version of the Kranich.
He authored a seminal work on sailplane design: Werkstatt-Praxis für den Bau von Gleit- und Segelflugzeugen ("Workshop-Practice for the Construction of Gliders and Sailplanes")