In 1909/1910 as commonly flying with airplanes was taken as a particularly complicated nature of suicide, some enthusiastic youngsters crowded around a man named Muenster ,a motorist in the so called „Kaiser-Maneuver“. He was an ex-champion of the art of flying of the city of Merseburg. One of those young men was Georg Lauer. He went with his family to Merseburg in Mai 1910 to the address Leunaer Straße Nr.8-12.He founded a school for chauffeurs and in October 1910 he was an independent carrier of a fleet of approx. 30 vehicles. This business started from the beginning on with a good profit. Being an enthusiastic follower and supporter of flying he erected at the south limit of the flying school in Beesen an airplane hangar and started with developing airplanes of his own construction and to tested them. The most known Lauer construction where the self made „Eindecker Daedalus“ and the „Doppeldecker L 2“.

He finished with the Daedalus successful flights over Beesen, Ammendorf and over the training ground south of Merseburg. Even in 1912 Mr. Lauer experimented further on and build his „Doppeldecker L2”.At this time the name of Rudolf Oeltzschner first came up. After surviving two aircraft accidents, Georg Lauer took off his branch in Merseburg in 1914.

Rudolf Oeltzschner was trained in 1916 as a military pilot and was active until the end of WW I as pilot. As after WW I in Germany all flight organizations were forming up themselves and the commercial flights took more and more place national and international, the flight sports in the region of Sachsen-Anhalt became more and more important. A short time ago a flight plan from 1927 was found from the airport Halle/Leipzig with 14 lines of air traffic.

On June the 24th 1925 the local group of Merseburg embedded in the “Deutsche Luftfahrer Verband” (DLV)was founded. The first highlight was the great flight day on august the 16th 1925.To lift up the importance of this day the local group bought shortly after their foundation an own airplane. This airplane, a “Rumpler Doppeldecker C1” was deployed at the airport of Halle-Nietleben. Urgently needed was an airfield in Merseburg. A suitable ground was available west of the estate of Rusches-Felde. So the new airfield of Merseburg was temporaryly finished to August the 16th. At the great day the first name giving launch of an airplane took place in Merseburg. The “Rumpler Doppeldecker” got the name “Rabe”. Absolutely sensational was at this day a parachute jump out of the “Merseburger Rabe”. The parachutist was Hans Meiserknecht, a master pilot of the city of Halle.

One of the attractions were the flight around Merseburg with a „Junkers F13“of the „Deutsche Lufthansa“.The F13 was the first full metal line airplane of the world and is accepted as ancestor sample of all modern line airplanes. Up to 1935 there where countless events on the market place of the city of Merseburg and in the city of Leuna as well as on the air base of Merseburg. Particular highlights were the naming of gliders.

Rudolf Oeltzschner, co-founder of the local group of the Merseburg DLV-group had in those years up to 1935 numerous successes. On October the 27th. 1935 he flew a record of instant time of 4h and 10 min. on an altitude of 400 meters. On the 31st.of July 1935 there was flown a long distance record. Together with 3 fellow pilots a non-stop flight over 502 km took place from the “Wasserkuppe” to the city of Brno (formerly Brünn) in Tchechia. Rudolf Oeltzschner was killed by accident on August the 1st. 1935 on the occasion of a transport flight to Hof in Bavaria.