Werner Kuers

Werner Kuers (1907-1983) was a German guided-missile engineer, born in Berlin, who joined the German rocket team that came to the United States after the Second World War. He arrived under Project Paperclip on 16 November 1945 aboard the Argentina from Le Havre, and as of January 1947 he was working at Fort Bliss, Texas. By 1960 he was Deputy Director of the Fabrication and Assembly Engineering Division at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, the organisation that grew out of the team's Huntsville rocket work. He died at Oaxaca, Mexico, on 14 May 1983. The Encyclopedia Astronautica entry is brief and names no individual rocket or programme for him, so this entry records only his birth, wartime expertise, arrival with the team and his Marshall post.