On 2 April 1920, the Berlin Model Flying Club was founded, whose members Willy Drude, Ernst Schalk, Paul Schlack and Friedrich Wilhelm Richter flew their own aircraft designs at the Rhön competitions from 1920 to 1923. After being renamed the Berlin Model and Gliding Club in 1921, the club only appeared as B.S.V. from 1923 onwards. The Luftikus was created in 1927 at the suggestion of the engineer Otto Hohmuth, who had studied at the Technical University of Charlottenburg, learned to fly during the First World War, scored four kills as a fighter pilot and received the glider pilot license No. 23 in June 1923. After serious injuries as a result of a crash with a self-designed motor glider at the Rhön Competition in 1924, he had to give up flying. The aim of his Luftikus design was a performance glider for participation in the 1928 Rhön competition, which was easy to build at low cost. Although the planned construction costs of 700 marks could be met, the amount of work exceeded expectations, so that the aircraft was not yet ready when the construction was accepted in the run-up to the competition. In May 1929, flight testing finally began on the Windmühlenberg in Berlin-Gatow.
