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All German Rocket Engineers

German and Austrian rocket engineers of the V-2 era, many of whom moved to the United States or the Soviet Union after 1945 and worked on missiles and the first space launchers. A person belongs here when the cited article calls them a German or Austrian engineer in rocketry. 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.

All German Rocket Engineers
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Magnus von Braun (Wikipedia)
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Magnus Freiherr von Braun (10 May 1919-21 June 2003) was a German-American chemical engineer, Luftwaffe aviator, rocket scientist and business executive.
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Helmut Hölzer (Wikipedia)
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Helmut Hoelzer was a German-American V-2 rocket engineer who was brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip.
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Dieter Grau (Wikipedia)
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Dieter Grau (April 24, 1913, December 17, 2014) was a German-born American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group", at Peenemünde (1939-1945) working on the V-2 rockets in World War II.
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Walter Haeussermann (Wikipedia)
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Walter Haeussermann (also spelled Häussermann; March 2, 1914, December 8, 2010) was a German-American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group", both at Peenemünde and later at Marshall Space Flight Center, where he was the director of the guidance and control laboratory.
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Karl Heimburg (Wikipedia)
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Karl Ludwig Heimburg (January 29, 1910 - January 26, 1997) was a German-American engineer and Operation Paperclip hire.
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Gerhard B. Heller (Wikipedia)
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Heller (January 24, 1914 - October 1, 1972) was a German-American rocket scientist and member of the "von Braun rocket team." He worked at Peenemünde Army Research Center during World War II and later, through Operation Paperclip, moved to develop rockets for the U.S., eventually becoming employed at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Hellmuth Walter (Wikipedia)
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was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines
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Walter Thiel (Wikipedia)
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was a German rocket scientist
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Georg von Tiesenhausen (Wikipedia)
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was a German and American rocket scientist
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Walter Riedel (Wikipedia)
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was a German-British engineer and rocket scientist
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Johannes Winkler (Wikipedia)
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was a German rocket pioneer
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Helmut Horn (Wikipedia)
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was a German-American engineer and applied physicist
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Werner Kuers (Wikipedia)
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was a German-American engineer and expert in guided missiles
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Hans Fichtner (Wikipedia)
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was a German-American rocket scientist who worked on V-2 rockets for Wernher von Braun at Peenemünde from 1939 to 1945
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William Mrazek (Wikipedia)
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was a German-American loads engineer
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Karl-Heinz Bringer (Wikipedia)
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was a German aerospace engineer, and rocket propulsion specialist who later became a French citizen
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Hans Hüter (Wikipedia)
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was a German-Swiss rocket engineer
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Wikipedia, Adolf Thiel (English edition)
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was an Austrian-born German expert in guided missiles during World War II
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Walter Jacobi (Wikipedia)
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was a rocket scientist and member of the "von Braun rocket group", at Peenemünde (1939-1945) working on the V-2 rockets in World War II
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Oscar Holderer (Wikipedia)
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was an engineer who worked for Nazi Germany during World War II before coming to the United States and working in the Apollo space program
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Werner Dahm (Wikipedia)
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was an early spaceflight scientist of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office who emigrated to the US under Operation Paperclip
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Walther Johannes Riedel (Wikipedia)
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was a rocket engineer who worked on the German V-2 and Wasserfall rockets
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Wernher von Braun (Wikipedia)
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Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun (US: VUR-nər von BROWN; German: [ˈvɛʁnheːɐ̯ fɔn ˈbʁaʊn]; 23 March 1912-16 June 1977) was a German American aerospace engineer and space architect.
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Arthur Rudolph - Wikipedia
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Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph (November 9, 1906, January 1, 1996) was a German rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket.
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Wikipedia: Krafft Arnold Ehricke
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Krafft Arnold Ehricke (March 24, 1917, December 11, 1984) was a German-American rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization.
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Konrad Dannenberg (Wikipedia)
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Konrad Dannenberg (August 5, 1912, February 16, 2009) was a German-American rocket pioneer and member of the German rocket team brought to the United States after World War II.
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Klaus Riedel (Wikipedia)
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Klaus Riedel (2 August 1907-4 August 1944) was a German rocket pioneer.
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Rudolf Nebel (Wikipedia)
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Rudolf Wilhelm "Willy" Nebel (21 March 1894-18 September 1978) was a German officer, WWI pilot of the Fliegertruppe and spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR, "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s as well as in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II.
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Max Valier (Wikipedia)
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Max Valier (9 February 1895-17 May 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer.
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Reinhold Tiling (Wikipedia)
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Reinhold Tiling (13 June 1893-11 October 1933) was a German engineer, pilot and rocket pioneer.
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