Friedrich von Saurma

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Wernher von Braun and co-workers in Huntsville, Alabama, in the fall of 1959 . Visible on the photograph: Ernst Stuhlinger , Friedrich von Saurma, Fritz Müller , Hermann Weidner , Erich W. Neubert (partially covered), Willy Mrazek , Karl Heimburg , Arthur Rudolph , Otto Hoberg , von Braun, Oswald Lange , General Bruce Medaris , Helmut Hölzer , Hans Maus , Ernst Geissler , Hans Hüter and George Constan .

Johann Friedrich Maria Eberhard Sylvius von Saurma (born February 28, 1908 in Dahsau , Guhrau district ; † December 12, 1961 in Huntsville , Alabama ) was a German-American aerospace engineer .

Life

Johann Friedrich Maria Eberhard Sylvius Graf von Saurma was born on February 28, 1908 in Dahsau, Silesia, as the grandson of Anton Johannes von Saurma-Jeltsch in the Saurma-Jeltsch family. He studied at the Technical University of Breslau , which he left in 1940 as a graduate engineer. During the Nazi era , von Saurma worked on the V1 in Peenemünde-West as an aeronautical engineer and test pilot for the Air Force.

It was not until long after the end of the Second World War that von Saurma and his wife came to the USA through Operation Paperclip . At the invitation of Wernher von Braun and the US government, he moved to Huntsville in 1954 to work on the US space program.

Friedrich von Saurma worked in the NASA MSFC Saturn Systems Office .

He died suddenly and unexpectedly of a heart attack on December 12, 1961.

His wife stayed in the USA, his daughter returned to Germany.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University of Alabama: Transplanted Rocket Pioneers. (PDF) 2015, p. 202 , accessed on October 22, 2015 (English).
  2. ↑ Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun , Bob Ward, Naval Institute Press, 2009, ISBN 1-59114-927-4 .
  3. ↑ Alabama countess has seen amazing things - but why did she stay? , John Archibald, Alabama Media Group, July 25, 2015.
  4. ↑ Missiles and Rockets: Magazine of World Astronautics, February 1961
personal data
SURNAME Saurma, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saurma, Johann Friedrich Maria Eberhard Sylvius von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American aerospace engineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dahsau , district of Guhrau
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1961
Place of death Huntsville , Alabama