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.
View the Source 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.
View the Source 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.
View the Source 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.
View the Source 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.
View the Source 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.
View the Source Hellmuth Walter (Wikipedia)
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was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines
View the Source Walter Thiel (Wikipedia)
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was a German rocket scientist
View the Source Georg von Tiesenhausen (Wikipedia)
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was a German and American rocket scientist
View the Source Walter Riedel (Wikipedia)
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was a German-British engineer and rocket scientist
View the Source Johannes Winkler (Wikipedia)
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was a German rocket pioneer
View the Source Helmut Horn (Wikipedia)
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was a German-American engineer and applied physicist
View the Source Werner Kuers (Wikipedia)
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was a German-American engineer and expert in guided missiles
View the Source 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
View the Source William Mrazek (Wikipedia)
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was a German-American loads engineer
View the Source Karl-Heinz Bringer (Wikipedia)
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was a German aerospace engineer, and rocket propulsion specialist who later became a French citizen
View the Source Hans Hüter (Wikipedia)
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was a German-Swiss rocket engineer
View the Source Wikipedia, Adolf Thiel (English edition)
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was an Austrian-born German expert in guided missiles during World War II
View the Source 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
View the Source 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
View the Source 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
View the Source Walther Johannes Riedel (Wikipedia)
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was a rocket engineer who worked on the German V-2 and Wasserfall rockets
View the Source 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.
View the Source 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.
View the Source 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.
View the Source 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.
View the Source Klaus Riedel (Wikipedia)
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Klaus Riedel (2 August 1907-4 August 1944) was a German rocket pioneer.
View the Source 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.
View the Source Max Valier (Wikipedia)
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Max Valier (9 February 1895-17 May 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer.
View the Source 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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