In April 1921, the Hanoverian Aviation Association (HVF) was founded. Within this association, students formed the Akademische Fliegergruppe Hannover (AFH), who had been called in by Georg Madelung, the designer of the Vampyr, in the implementation of this project. The initiator of the project was the head of the Institute of Aeronautical Engineering at the Technical University of Hanover, Arthur Pröll (known as "Papa Pröll"). The Akaflieg Hannover registered the Vampyr for the Rhön Competition. After that, the HVF and AFH agreed on a cooperation, in which the AFH remained a grouping within the HVF. The AFH is one of the founding groups of IDAFLIEG 1922. In 1928, the HVF merged with another organization and renamed itself the Hanoverian Aero Club (HAeC). The AFH drafted its own statutes and was registered as an e.V. in 1929. At this time, today's club emblem was also created, which was attached to the motorized aircraft that were exclusively operated at the time, including the self-constructed snail. In 1933, the members joined the DLV in the course of the Gleichschaltung, aircraft and aircraft hangar were transferred to the DLV, but the AFH members were largely able to continue to use the engine machines. In 1935 – as at other universities – an aviation science group (FFG) was founded without dissolving the previous AFH. At the FFG Hannover, which took up the glider again, the type designations of the new designs continued to be AFH. In 1951, no new foundation was necessary, but only a new board was elected to revive the AFH. Since there is no longer a chair of aircraft construction in Hanover, the group limited itself for a long time to the development of components and measuring instruments before gliders were designed again. The developments of the Akaflieg Hannover until 1945:
