01/31/2015. Remarks by Kees Kort: "On 29 December 1909 Walter Huth founded the Albatros Flugzeugwerke in Johannisthal near Berlin, Germany. Contrary to big firms like Siemens or AEG who started with a separate aviation department this was a solitary company, with no backup from a big parent company. As there was no practical knowledge in the Albatros firm how to design and built aircraft, Huth quickly went to Paris - the Mecca of the aviation world - to learn the best way to start his firm.

Huth returned to Germany with licenses for Albatros to build exclusively in Germany the Henry Farman and Roger Sommer biplanes and the Antoinette monoplane. These firms did not deliver drawings of the machines for license, but actual pattern samples as a specimen to build. As the Albatros engineers had the spirit to improve all the way, their first sample of the Roger Sommer pusher biplane was in some details different from the original. Also different engines were fitted like the Argus engine. After gaining experience with this design they started in 1911 with a more pronounced redesign of the Roger Sommer pusher biplane. Outwardly the biggest change was in the tail section, which acquired a triple rudder. Ailerons were fitted on the upper and lower wing. Unequal span wings were used and best of all the pilot got a nacelle to keep him somewhat away from the bitter cold of the wind when flying. A big change.

As the design was not ordered by the German Army it seems there was no production of this type. The German Army preferred the Albatros Farman pusher types. To distinguish the Albatros Sommer pusher types they were retrospectively identified as the Albatros S 1 and Albatros S 2 (the much more modified Sommer type)."