OTRAG Rocket.pdf

company with headquarters in Neu-Isenburg. It was founded in 17.10.1974 with a capital
of 1 million DM. The concept for the company Kayser made rich with a bang: The
results, which resulted from research funded by the BMFT Kayser sold for 150 million
DM to the OTRAG (which he chaired) and read at once pay 20 million and the rest as
credit, should be replaced if revenue gushed from the company. A Quick Change of a
stroke made him rich. He needed now only people who were willing to pay 150 million
for research by the federal government previously funded with a 40 position of the sum
had. This was achieved with a curiosity of the German tax law: Because the company did
so virtually from the beginning, only losses, investors won the deposit as a loss, the tax
savings was due to the enormous debt the company is much higher than the deposit.
In June 1978, Lutz Thilo Kayser had a total of 95 million DM of not less than 1,150
shareholders, acquired mainly employees and officials. This was because there were tax
law by the loss allocation of up to 275 percent. In other words, do not log the OTRAG
rocket is successful, the investors could make a loss of 275 percent of the invested capital
tax. Who had an income replacement storage of more than 37 percent, also made a profit
if the OTRAG not rocket flew successfully. Many investors saw the OTRAG therefore
society as a loss of depreciation and the allegation that it was actually not about to bring a
satellite into orbit, Kayser pursued during the whole time OTRAG.
Static test of a RaketeVon universities Lutz Kayser took about 40 engineers fresh from
university and gone as chairman after he won an 8-day closed meeting Kurt Debus, the
former head of the Kennedy Space Center from 1962 to 1974. He stood in 1976 before
the Supervisory Board of OTRAG. In late 1980 he retired from the OTRAG because they
now start in Libya and prepared by its board of NASA would have been endangered.
(Debus was a U.S. citizen and therefore should not be chairman of the board a company
that does business with Libya). Debus gave the OTRAG credibility and thus they only
came to Central. He entered but not outwardly apparent. In 1980, when Debus Lutz
Kayser was retired Chairman of OTRAG and his deputy Frank Wukasch CEO. Although
OTRAG was a public company, Lutz Kayser decided virtually everything personally.
The OTRAG had as a small company, of course, does not have that large space
corporations or States enjoy. For static tests of the engine or the module is reached,
therefore, on the back for the European-built rocket test facility in Lampoldshausen. To
start you had to look for a place outside of Germany.
The concept
Lutz Kayser believes that existing carriers are not optimized at the expense down.
Lowering the related as "Billigstrakete" in the newspapers received rocket following
principles about the cost, even if the takeoff weight is inevitably much higher than the
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