Lutz Tilo Ferdinand Kayser ((1939-03-31)March 31, 1939 in Stuttgart, Germany, † November 19, 2017(2017-11-19) (aged 78) [1] was a German aerospace engineer, who founded the world's first commercial space launch company,[2] OTRAG.
Lutz Kayser is the uncle of German serial entrepreneur Lin Kayser, who sits on the advisory board of the Munich space launcher company Isar Aerospace,[3] and who also works on liquid rocket engines[4] with his company LEAP 71.
His father, the chemist Ludwig Kayser, was the director of the German sugar-producing corporation Suedzucker AG.
[5] His brother Manfred Kayser was managing director of the Dornier aircraft factory in Lindau, Germany.
[6] He died in november 2017, on the Marshall Islands.