German born Gustav Otto (1883-1926) bought a Blériot single decker aircraft in 1910 with German registration number 34, thus one of the first planes in the country. The year before he co-founded Aeroplanbau Otto-Alberti at the Münich Oberwiesenfeld, a military exercise land which Otto wanted to use as an airfield, in cooperation with the Bavarian Military.
When co-founder Alberti left the business in 1911 it was renamed Gustav Otto Flugmaschinenwerke. The aircraft were used in WW1 but were found to be too weak for front line use so were used as trainers. In 1916 his business went bankrupt and the estate was then merged with the Rapp Motor Werke GmbH to create Bayerische Flugzeugwerke AG (BFW). From this arose later BMW.
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