2-702-126 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

RRG Fafnir glider, 1930, (1932). The Fafnir, named after the legendary dragon, was a German high-performance glider designed by Alexander Lippisch and built by the Rhon-Rossitten Gesellschaft. In May 1931, Günther Groenhoff made the first glider flight of over 200 km (120 miles), flying 272 km (169 miles) from Munich to Kaaden. Fafnir won the Rhön competition in the same year. From "Die Eroberung Der Luft", (The Conquest of the Air), cigarette card album produced by the Garbáty cigarette factory, 1932. Eugene and Moritz Garbáty, who were Jewish, were driven out of business by the Nazis in the late 1930s, and forced to sell their factory which lay empty for over 70 years. [Garbaty Cigarettenfabrik, Berlin-Pankow, 1932]