- List of German rocket scientists in the United States
The following lists contain names of
scientist s and technical personnel specializing inrocketry who originally came fromGermany but spent most of their working life in theUnited States .Particularly after
World War II many technicians leftGermany to pursue further rocket projects in the US. The majority had been involved with the V-2 inPeenemünde , and 127 of them eventually entered the US through "Operation Paperclip ". They were also known as the "Von Braun Group".Before and after "
Operation Paperclip ", other German experts arrived in the US by individual immigration withoutgovernment links and would only later join various space projects, primarily atNASA ."Operation Paperclip" scientists
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thumb|right|400px|Wernher von Braun and his team in the fall of 1959. At the time, von Braun and his associates worked for theArmy Ballistic Missile Agency inHuntsville, Alabama . Those in the photograph have been identified asErnst Stuhlinger ,Frederick von Saurma ,Fritz Mueller ,Hermarn Weidner ,Erich W. Neubert (partially hidden), W.A. Mrazek,Karl Heimburg ,Arthur Rudolph ,Otto Hoberg , von Braun,Oswald Lange , GeneralBruce Medaris ,Helmut Hoelzer ,Hans Maus , E.D. Geissler,Hans Heuter , andGeorge Constan .]
*Rudolph 'Rolf' Ammann
* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/beichel.htm Rudi Beichel]
* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/dahm.htm Werner Dahm]
*Konrad Dannenberg
* [http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/biosa-d.html#D Kurt Debus]
*Ernst R. G. Eckert
*Krafft Arnold Ehricke
*Ernst Geissler
*Dieter Grau
*Walter Häussermann
*Karl Heimburg
* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/hirchler.htm Otto Hirschler]
*Helmut Hoelzer
*Hans Hueter
*Wilhelm Jungert
*Heinz-Hermann Koelle
* [http://history.nasa.gov/biosk-n.html Hermann H. Kurzweg]
*Hans Maus
* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/muefritz.htm Fritz Mueller]
*Willy Mrazek
*Erich W. Neubert
*Theodor A. Poppel
*Eberhard Rees
* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/reisig.htm Gerhard Reisig]
* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/rickhey.htm Georg Rickhey]
* [http://www.astronautix.com/astros/rosinski.htm Werner Rosinski]
*Arthur Rudolph
*Harry Ruppe
*August Schulze
*Walter Schwidetzky
*Ernst Stuhlinger
*Bernhard Tessmann
*Adolf Thiel
*Wernher von Braun
* Albert Zeiler"after Operation Paperclip"
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Walter Dornberger
*Hermann Oberth
*Jesco von Puttkamer
*Guenter Wendt ee also
* "
Operation Paperclip "
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*Human capital
*Brain drain
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