Lutz Kayser

Lutz Tilo Ferdinand Kayser (March 31, 1939 in Stuttgart, Germany, † November 19, 2017 [1] was a German aerospace engineer, who founded the world's first commercial space launch company,[2] OTRAG.

Lutz Kayser is the uncle of German serial entrepreneur Lin Kayser, who sits on the advisory board of the Munich space launcher company Isar Aerospace,[3] and who also works on liquid rocket engines[4] with his company LEAP 71. His father, the chemist Ludwig Kayser, was the director of the German sugar-producing corporation Suedzucker AG.[5] His brother Manfred Kayser was managing director of the Dornier aircraft factory in Lindau, Germany.[6] He died in November 2017, in the Marshall Islands.