It was developed by Edmund Schneider from Alexander Lippisch's Djävlar Anamma (German: Hols der Teufel, English: to the Devil with it) via the Espenlaub primary.

[1]The core of the flat frame fuselage was formed with a horizontal beam about 2 m (6 ft 7 in) long, to which two other converging struts were attached, making overall a vertical A-frame.

On some later aircraft there was an extra vertical member for the lower cross beam to the wing root to provide the pilot with a backrest.

They were attached to the upper fuselage beam with their leading edges at the forward sloping member and a chordwise gap between their roots.

A fin was provided by fabric covering the near triangular area of the rear fuselage between the rudder hinge, the upper and lower beams and the diagonal between them.

[2] The positioning of a wooden strut immediately in front of the pilot's head led to the type being nicknamed the Schädelspalter, or skullsplitter.