Adolf Thiel

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The Project Paperclip team at Fort Bliss. (by moving the mouse pointer over the faces, the names are shown)

Adolf Karl Thiel (born February 12, 1915 ; † June 2, 2001 in Los Angeles ) was an Austrian - German - American engineer who specialized in rocket construction during World War II and later worked for the United States Army .

Life

Thiel was an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt before he was brought to Wernher von Braun at the Peenemünde Army Research Center , where Thiel was involved in the development of the V-2 missile. After the end of the Second World War he was brought to the United States ( Operation Paperclip ), where he continued his military research work in Fort Bliss , Texas. He was involved in the design of the Redstone missile, the Thor missile and other short and medium ballistic systems.

In 1955 Thiel left the US Army and moved to the American technology group TRW (Thompson Ramo Wooldridge). There he became program manager for ballistic missiles, the forerunners of later space probes, and headed the TRW space programs until the 1970s.

Thiel retired in 1980 and then worked as a management consultant. He last lived in Rancho Palos Verdes .

See also

literature

  • Frederick Ira Ordway, Mitchell R. Sharpe: The Rocket Team , 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Notice of death in the Los Angeles Times
  2. ↑ Adolf K Thiel: Palos Verdes Peninsula, California ( Memento from April 8, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Thiel, Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thiel, Adolf K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-German-American engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 12, 1915
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 2001
Place of death los Angeles