The aircraft, built at the Hannoverische Waggonfabrik (HaWa) workshops using wood as the primary material, was simple in appearance, but the Vampyr heralded the structural techniques that were to become commonplace as the sport of gliding progressed:Box framed fuselage covered with plywood as a stressed skin, three piece wings with detachable outer panels, a torsion box leading edge, and an enclosed cockpit (only the pilots head was exposed).

This formed a torsion resisting D-box and was probably the first use of stressed skin on any aircraft apart from airships.

It was built in three parts, a rectangular centre section and two tapered outer panels bearing ailerons.

[1] Flying controls were essentially conventional with fin, rudder, all-flying tailplane, and ailerons on the outer panels on the 1921 version.

[1] The Vampyr was built specifically to compete in the 1921 Rhön Gliding competition at the Wasserkuppe.

A replica is also on display at the Deutsches Segelflugmuseum mit Modellflug (German Glider Museum) at the Wasserkuppe.