Verein für Raumschiffahrt

Winkler, Johannes (President) Ley, Willy (Vice President) Braun, Wernher von Hohmann, Walter Oberth, Hermann Riedel, Klaus The Verein für Raumschiffahrt ("VfR", English: Society for Space Travel)[3] was a German amateur rocket association prior to World War II that included members outside Germany.

The VfR was founded in 1927 by Johannes Winkler, with Max Valier and Willy Ley after their participation as expert advisers for Fritz Lang's early science fiction film Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon).

Ley and Hermann Oberth had hoped to receive funding from Lang for a real-life experimental rocket launch coinciding with the movie's premiere.

[2] The society's demise was also the result of an inability to find funding, and Berlin's civic authorities becoming concerned with rocketry experiments so close to the city.

The only known VfR rocket artifact is a rejected aluminium Repulsor nozzle which member Herbert Schaefer took to the US when he emigrated in 1935 and which he donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1978.