Rocket and spaceflight pioneers from Germany, Austria and Hungary, including members of the amateur rocket societies of the 1920s and 1930s whose work led to the V-2 and later spaceflight. A person belongs here when the cited article calls them German, Austrian or Hungarian and ties them to rocketry or spaceflight. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Hermann Ganswindt (Wikipedia)
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Hermann Ganswindt (12 June 1856, Voigtshof bei Seeburg, East Prussia, 25 October 1934) was a German inventor and spaceflight scientist, whose inventions (such as the helicopter) are thought to have been ahead of his time.
Eugen Sänger (Wikipedia)
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Eugen Sänger (22 September 1905-10 February 1964) was an Austrian aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology.
Ernst Stuhlinger (Wikipedia)
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Ernst Stuhlinger (December 19, 1913, May 25, 2008) was a German-American atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist.
Wikipedia: Herman Potocnik (Hermann Noordung)
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Herman Potočnik (pseudonym Hermann Noordung; 22 December 1892-27 August 1929) was an Austrian officer, electrical engineer and astronautics theorist.
Wikipedia: Theodore von Karman
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Theodore von Kármán (Hungarian: (szőllőskislaki) Kármán Tódor [(søːløːʃkiʃlɒki) ˈkaːrmaːn ˈtoːdor], May 11, 1881, May 6, 1963) was a Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist who worked in aeronautics and astronautics.
Wikipedia: Willy Ley
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Willy Otto Oskar Ley (October 2, 1906, June 24, 1969) was a German and American science writer and proponent of space exploration and cryptozoology.
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