In the 1890s, the Verein zur Förderung der Luftschifffahrt (an association promoting airflight founded in 1881) conducted scientific balloon ascents to study the upper atmosphere on the initiative of Richard Assmann.
Hans Georg Friedrich Groß (1860-1924), German balloonist and airship constructor
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