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Wolfgang Liebe (22 June 1911 in Bad Gandersheim, Germany – 21 October 2005 in Berlin, Germany) was a German aerospace engineer and pioneer in aerodynamics, specialising in research to avoid stall in airfoils. He introduced the concept of . They obstruct span-wise airflow along the wing, and are widely used specifically in early swept-wing designs. Description of wing fence and the problems it solves (engl.) (PDF; 41 kB)
Starting in 1941 he was working at the aeronautics research institute in Prague-Letňany. After the war he was taken prisoner there and put into a train eastbound. Somehow he ended up in Belgrade, Yugoslavia and put in charge of the development of a high performance glider aircraft. In 1951 he was allowed to come back to Germany and got his Ph.D. in aircraft engineering from the University of Hannover. The thesis had the title “Reasons and Rules for Stall in Aircraft”. Nachruf auf Professor Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Liebe. Mitteilungen 2/2006, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahr. Archived on 17 December 2013.
In 1955 he was appointed Professor at Technische Universität Berlin for “Aerodynamics of Airfoils” and retired in 1976. After retirement he continued research and received the Medal of Honour from the Wessex Institute of Technology in 2004 for "outstanding contributions to aerodynamic science and technology“.
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