 The Akademische Fliegeruppe Darmstadt, founded in 1921, was the first of several Akafliegs associated with German universities intended to give annually changing student teams experience of aircraft design.They rapidly acquired a good reputation for inventive glider design.Though most of their aircraft were intended for their own use and investigation and were given Darmstadt D- numbers such as the D-6 Geheimrat, they also received some orders from individuals or club and these, built in ones or twos, were client named, received no D- number and brought welcome funds to the group.