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Weser-Flugzeugbau
Weser Aircraft Company Limited

The Weser aircraft construction GmbH was created in the year 1934 by the shipyard company Deutsche Schiff- und Maschinenbau AG [DeSchiMAG], in order to become active on the new business field of the aircraft construction.

Educated at the Technical School in Darmstadt, Adolf Rohrbach worked for shipbuilders firm Blohm und Voss, in the Zeppelin industry and then in the aircraft industry. After the first World War the Treaty of Versailles made it impossible for him to work in Germany and he started a factory in Denmark. By 1929 it was so successful that it moved to the USA, but there he didn't receive any orders from the government. In 1935 he became technical director of the new Weser aircraft construction company. Rohrbach died in 1939 of a stroke.

The first 35 Ju 87A-1s were produced by the Weser Aircraft Company Limited (WFG).

The West German government issued a directive in September 1954 that individual firms should combine into operative groups. Group I ("North") consisted of the following firms: 1, Hamburger Flugzeugbau (Blohm und Voss); 2, Finanz uad Verwaltungsgesellschaft "Weser," Bremen - a post-war name for the former "Weser" Flugzeugbau; 3, Henschel und Sohn, Kassel; 4, Siebel Werke, Munich. This represented quite a concentration of industrial power, for Blohm und Voss and Weser were the aviation branches of the two largest German shipbuilding concerns, which since the war had already put Germany second only to Britain in shipbuilding output. Henschel und Sohn was one of the largest producers of railway locomotives, buses, lorries and machine tools. For aircraft production Blohm und Voss, who made the famous seaplanes of the old Lufthansa (and Luftwaffe), still possessed an intact plant in their Finkenwerder works; while "Weser," who made large quantities of Dornier and Heinkel aircraft as well as Focke-Wulf fighters and Junkers bombers, had factories, at Lemwerder and Eiswarden in Oldenburg.