Wolfram Kurt Erhard Hirth (28 February 1900 – 25 July 1959) was a German gliding pioneer and sailplane designer.

[2] He had the fibula from his amputated leg fashioned into a cigarette holder[3] In 1928, he graduated from the Technical University of Stuttgart with a diploma in engineering and began to focus on aircraft construction.

[1] On one of these publicity trips, he suffered major injuries in a crash in Hungary, requiring a hospital stay of four months.

[5] In Jan. 1934, he joined Professor Georgii's South America expedition, along with Peter Riedel, Hanna Reitsch, and Heini Dittmar, to study thermal conditions, with his sailplane "Moatzagotl".

In 1938, Wolf Hirth, mainly responsible for the design work, officially became a partner in the company, which then took on the new name "Sportflugzeugbau Schempp-Hirth".

[1] The company first manufactured a small training glider, the Göppingen Gö 1, intended to rival the Grunau Baby.