# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/heinz-hermann-koelle
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:55:33.696Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/heinz-hermann-koelle"
name: "Heinz-Hermann Koelle"
slug: "heinz-hermann-koelle"
description: "Heinz-Hermann Koelle was a German aeronautical engineer who made the preliminary designs on the rocket that would emerge as the Saturn I. Closely associated with Wernher von Braun's team at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA), he was a member of the launch crew on Explorer 1 and later directed the Marshall Space Flight Center's involvement in Project Apollo. In 1965, he accepted the Chair of Space Technology at Technische Universität Berlin."
tagline: "German aeronautical engineer (1925–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wernher_von_Braun_(left)_and_Hermann_Koelle.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1925-07-22"
deathDate: "2011-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.60864
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B2_%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "هينز هيرمان كويلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz_Hermann_Koelle"
    title: "Heinz Hermann Koelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Hermann_Koelle"
    title: "Heinz-Hermann Koelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Hermann_Koelle"
    title: "Heinz-Hermann Koelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Hermann_Koelle"
    title: "Heinz-Hermann Koelle"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q118986"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump