[2] He studied there at the gymnasium and the Technical University; beginning in 1928, while a student of aircraft construction, he worked on the models Mü-4 to Mü-13 of the Akaflieg München (Munich Academic Flight Group).
[1][2] After World War II, he at first built bicycles, mini-cars and motorised tricycles, developed the Mü-13E Bergfalke design in Tyrol,[2] then in 1951 in Dachau founded Scheibe Flugzeugbau,[3] originally in a barracks at the former Telefunken plant.
Scheibe continued to be actively involved in the company to an advanced age, focussing on further development of single- and two-seater powered gliders.
[1] Scheibe's 1930 work with Akaflieg was a major part of the "Munich School" of sailplane construction.
[4] After the war, his Mü-13E, continuing the Akaflieg series numbering, was the first post-war high-performance German sailplane.