Not all Elf Tank designers were fans of the small carriage with big guns approach, and Major Adler Henschel was one of those non-conformists.
One day, seemingly drunk or under immense pressure, he publicly denounced Lieutenant Colonel Boershe's designs as ridiculous, harmful to both the army and the nation.
Henschel, having stirred up a hornet's nest, was soon kicked out of the Equipment Design Department and dispatched to the Ordnance Department Fifth Division - an agency in charge of engineering equipment and fortress defense weapons - to draw his salary there.
Stubborn as a mule, or perhaps to prove that his views were more brilliant and correct than Boershe's, Major Henschel privately submitted a design proposal to the high command, with a unique name - Mobile Armour.
