Gerhard Reisig

Gerhard Herbert Richard Reisig (1910-2005) was a German engineer and an expert in guided-missile guidance, telemetry and control. He studied engineering physics at the University of Dresden, took his doctorate in 1934, worked for Siemens from 1935 until October 1937, and was then hired by Wernher von Braun to work with the rocket team at Kummersdorf as chief of measuring devices. From 1939 he took part in developing the A3 and A5 subscale versions of the V-2, and he served as technical liaison with Erich Regener on a scientific package for V-2 sounding-rocket missions. In 1943 he joined Walter Dornberger's staff and worked on the Wasserfall surface-to-air missile. Hired by the Americans under Project Paperclip, he worked at Fort Bliss, Texas, and then spent his career with the rocket team at White Sands and Huntsville, Alabama.