Magnus von Braun

Freiherr Magnus von Braun (1919-2003) was a German engineer who worked on rockets and aircraft equipment during the Second World War and afterwards became a member of the Rocket Team in the United States. He was born on 10 May 1919 in Greifswald and was the brother of Wernher von Braun, the better known leader of the team that developed the V-2. He was fluent in French. Under the military operation known as Project Paperclip he arrived in America on 16 November 1945 aboard the ship Argentina, sailing from Le Havre, and by January 1947 he was working at Fort Bliss, Texas, where the German engineers were installed to work on rocket development. He died on 21 June 2003 at Phoenix, Arizona. His entry belongs with the engineers of the Paperclip group who carried German rocket expertise into the American missile and space programs.