Detmar Stahlknecht

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Detmar Stahlknecht was a German engineer .

He was originally in the Ministry of Munitions of the Army Ordnance Office busy, and has been from mid-1942 by Reich Minister Speer with the management of " Peenemünder replica Directorate" for the A4 (V2) rocket manufacturing contracted. With the introduction of the "Special Committee A4" Stahlknecht took over the working committee " production planning " and the Working Committee "Assembly". In addition to the A4 production planning for the " Zeppelin " company, Stahlknecht was largely responsible for setting up the Rax factory in Wiener Neustadt as the third A4 replica. On September 13, 1943 Stahlknecht's duties in the A4 working committee ended, after which he was employed under Director Degenkolb for "special appointment tracking".

literature

  • Benjamin King, Timothy Kutta: Impact: The History of Germany's V-Weapons in World War II. Classic Military History . Da Capo Press, New York 2003, ISBN 978-0-306-81292-7 .
  • David John Cawdell Irving: The Secret Weapons of the Third Reich, Volume 43 of Modern Non-Fiction . S. Mohn, Gütersloh 1964.
  • Michael J. Neufeld: The rocket and the reich: Peenemünde and the coming of the ballistic missile era . Free Press, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-02-922895-1 .
  • David John Cawdell Irving: The mare's nest . Little, Brown 1965.
  • Frederick Ira Ordway, Mitchell R. Sharpe: The Rocket Team. MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1982, ISBN 978-0-262-65013-7 , (photos by Mitchell R. Sharpe).
  • Józef Garliński: Hitler's last weapons: the underground war against the V1 and V2 . Volume 2, Times Books, New York 1978, ISBN 978-0-8129-0787-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. Florian Freund , Bertrand Perz: The concentration camp in the Serbenhalle: on the war industry in Wiener Neustadt. Industry, forced labor and concentration camps in Austria . Publishing house for social criticism, 1987, ISBN 978-3-900351-87-8 .