Albert Püllenberg

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Albert Püllenberg (born July 3, 1913 in Ulm , † April 8, 1991 in Neu-Ulm ) was a German rocket pioneer.

Life

In 1928 he began designing a series of rockets. In 1931, while still a student, he founded the Gesellschaft für Raketenforschung - Gruppe Hannover (GEFRA), in which Konrad Dannenberg also worked, who studied with Kurt Neumann and worked on diesel injection.

As an engineer at DESCHIMAG , he developed pumps and steam turbines.

Püllenberg had also decided to finally get the postal problem on the North Sea islands under control with a postal rocket . In 1933 he designed the first liquid propellant rocket, the diesel FT RAK III, 3 m in length. It exploded on the first attempt to take off on the Vahrenwalder Heide . Liquid propulsion has the advantage that it works more efficiently and the amount of fuel can be regulated. In 1934 it flew its first postal rocket model. When developing his mail rockets, he had actually already had the moon in his sights.

After a visit by Dornberger from the Heereswaffenamt in 1935, the Gestapo banned further flight tests from the Hanover missile port and tried to persuade the GEFRA to join the HWA. While some of his students went to Peenemünde, Püllenberg continued to work in secret and tested his VR12 near Bremen in 1938. In 1939 he also took a position in Peenemünde and in the spring of 1940 brought Dannenberg to Peenemünde. As a headstrong inventor, Püllenberg soon stepped out of line there: he wanted to build an anti-aircraft missile, but Wernher von Braun refused. The project was deliberately forgotten. Under pressure from the Allied bombers, it was not brought out again until two years later, in autumn 1942. The anti-aircraft missile C 2 (camouflage name waterfall ) was developed almost entirely according to Püllenberg's plan.

After the war he never wanted to construct missiles for military use again. With Karl Poggensee and Rudolf Nebel he took part in the International Astronautical Federation (1950 in Paris and 1951 in London) and in 1952 they began again with private missile tests near Cuxhaven .

literature

  • Rocket designers Püllenberg in Hanover and Tiling († 1933) in Osnabrück
  • Peter Meier-Hüsing: Film rockets over the blockland
  • Hans Liska: Hamburg - New York in 60 minutes. (Science fiction illustration) 1952
  • Konrad K. Danneberg, Mitchell R. Sharpe: Albert Püllenberg and the GEFRA: A Memoir . In: History of Rocketry and Astronautics , 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Konrad K. Dannenberg in conversation with Olaf Przybilski. (PDF; 31 kB) March 3, 2009, accessed on January 3, 2011 : "I had already developed rockets in Hanover at GEFA, the Society for Rocket Research with Püllenberg"
  2. ↑ Klaus Mlynek: Hanover Chronicle: from the beginnings to the present: numbers, data, facts . Page 174. Quote: "The Hanoverian Albert Püllenberg constructs the first liquid-fuel rocket".
  3. ↑ Thomas H. Lange: Peenemünde: Analysis of a technology development in the Third Reich . Page 49. Quote: "Püllenberg did not decide to take a position in Peenemünde until 1939".
  4. ↑ To the moon in 5 years . In: Der Spiegel . No. 26 , 1950, pp. 27 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Püllenberg, Albert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German missile pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1991
Place of death New Ulm