Hermann Oberth
Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocketry pioneer (1894-1989) · Germany · Scientists · Died at 95
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Something wrong?Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross in 1943.
A life in dates
1989Died28 December 19891976International Space Hall of FameAward1969Wilhelm Exner MedalAward1954Rudolf-Diesel-MedailleAward1927Prix d'AstronautiqueAward1894Born25 June 1894
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Hermann Oberth as a young boy, c. 1901
Portrait of Hermann Oberth, before 1930
Informal group photograph of leading members of the VfR, including Oberth and von Braun, August 5, 1930
Opel RAK.1 - world's first public flight of a manned rocket-powered plane on September 30, 1929
Oberth's Model B design for a two-stage rocket
Hermann Oberth (forefront) with officials of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Alabama in 1956. Left to right around Oberth: Ernst Stuhlinger (seated), Major General Holger Toftoy, Commanding Officer responsible for "Project Paperclip", Wernher von Braun, Director, Development Operations Division, Robert Lusser, a Project Paperclip engineer who returned to Germany in 1959.
Wernher von Braun holds the coveted Hermann Oberth award presented to him by Oberth during the banquet hosted by the Alabama Section of the American Rocket Society (ARS), on October 19, 1961. Hermann Oberth wears Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.Awards
About this person
Country
Germany
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1989 · aged 95
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