Large parts of today's commercial zone of the municipality Lohfelden, Kassel industrial Park, are located on the former premises of the company Fieseler (Plant II & III).
The firm was founded on April 1, 1930 as Fieseler Flugzeugbau in Kassel by World War I flying ace and aerobatic champion Gerhard Fieseler.
Fieseler had been a manager for the Raab-Katzenstein, but when this company went bankrupt, Fieseler bought a sailplane factory in Kassel and quickly turned it to building sports planes.
Fiseler started building more and more air planes for the Luftwaffe.
The Kassel - Fieseler werks were one of the main armament firms in the the city of Kassel.
The production capacity of the plant in Bettenhausen and the Kassel - Fieseler werkes plant II was not sufficient, so a new site at the airport Kassel-Waldau, the Fieseler Werk III, was built up.
Fieseler also operated a factory on Rothwesten Kaserne, (Fritz-Erler-Kaserne) where the V1 flying bomb (Buzz Bomb) was built from 1944 to April 1945. Rothwesten was also used to build planes that the other plants could not keep up with.
This is an early RLB (Reichsluftschutzbund) Armband for the Decontamination Service, later replaced with a black "G" on a yellow band for this service.......
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