Fritz Müller (aerospace engineer)

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 .

Fritz K. Müller (born October 27, 1907 in Schalkau , Thuringia ; † May 15, 2001 in Huntsville , Alabama ) was a German-American aerospace engineer .

Life

Fritz Müller was employed by Kreiselgeräte GmbH in 1933 , where he met his future wife Ursula. He was one of the first members of the team for rocket development around Wernher von Braun , with whom he worked from 1935.

After the end of the Second World War he emigrated to the USA as part of Operation Paperclip , where he helped develop the control systems of the PGM-11 Redstone , PGM-19 Jupiter , MGM-31 Pershing and the Saturn I rockets. Müller developed the PIGA accelerometer, which was based on the control system of the V2 rocket . He was also instrumental in developing the gyroscope for the Saturn V rocket .

In 1960 he left NASA and went into private industry.

literature

At 93, a rocket science pioneer dies peacefully in Huntsville , by Mike Marshall, in The Huntsville Times on May 17, 2001

Web links

Fritz Müller in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Donald A. MacKenzie (1993). Inventing accuracy: a historical sociology of nuclear missile guidance. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-63147-1 .
↑ Michael J. Neufeld (2008). Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-307-38937-4 .
↑ The Myth of V2 Inaccuracy and Ineffectiveness ( Memento from April 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Fritz Müller in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Müller, Fritz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Müller, Fritz K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American aerospace engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 27, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schalkau , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH	May 15, 2001
Place of death	Huntsville , Alabama

[1] Donald A. MacKenzie (1993). Inventing accuracy: a historical sociology of nuclear missile guidance. MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-63147-1 .

[2] Michael J. Neufeld (2008). Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-307-38937-4 .

[3] The Myth of V2 Inaccuracy and Ineffectiveness ( Memento from April 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Fritz Müller in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)