Gerhard B. Heller

Gerhard Bernhard Heller (1914-2005) was a German engineer who worked on guided missiles during the Second World War and afterward was a member of the German rocket team in the United States. He worked with that team for the whole of his career, first at Fort Bliss in Texas, then at White Sands, and finally at Huntsville, Alabama, where the group developed the Army's missiles and then the launch vehicles of NASA. By 1960 he was Deputy Director of the Research Projects Division at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. He died in Huntsville at the start of 2005. The available biography is short and records his birth in 1914, his death, his wartime missile work and this single NASA post, so this entry is deliberately brief.