Berthold Seliger

Berthold Seliger (born 1928 in Dauba in Sudeten county) is a German rocket technical designer (not identical with the owner of the concert agency of the same name). Berthold Seliger got a scholarship at the school of engineering of Mittweida in Saxonia in 1942 and, after finishing his studies, became an assistant of the famous theoretician professor Dr. Eugen Sänger. He moved in 1956 to Orsoy at the lower Rhine, where he opened a moped workshop. In 1960 Berthold Seliger got a member of the German Rocket Society and founded in 1961 a society for rocket construction, the "Berthold Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH". In 1962/63 this society launched various rockets in the area of Cuxhaven, among this was a three-stage rocket with a maximum altitude of more then 100 kilometers (first flight: May 2nd, 1963). This rocket was the only rocket developed in postwar Germany, which reached the space. In December 1963 Berthold Seliger gave a demonstration of militarily usable rockets to military representatives from non-NATO states in the area of Cuxhaven, which might have took its part to the termination of the rocket experiments in the area of Cuxhaven in 1964.