The wing had a thick and strongly cambered profile, using the then new Göttingen 535 airfoil with its high lift to drag ratio that attracted many pre-World War II sailplane designers.

These proved both heavy in flight and vulnerable on the ground, so were soon tapered and rounded off, slightly reducing the span and aspect ratio.

No flaps, airbrakes or spoilers were fitted, normal for the time [1][2] The fuselage of the Konsul was a 3-ply[2] skinned, oval cross sectioned semi-monocoque, with a blunt nose and slightly tapered and more rounded towards the tail.

[1][3][4] In 1923 the Konsul, flown by Albert Botsch, one of its designers, won the distance prize with a record breaking flight of 18.7 km (11.6 mi).

Nehring set another distance record that year with a flight of 24.4 km (15.2 mi) during a visit to the Crimea, hill soaring as before.