Gerhard Zucker

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Gerhard Zucker (born November 22, 1908 in Hasselfelde ; † February 4, 1985 in Düren ) was a German businessman and rocket technician .

Life

From 1931 he dealt with the problem of mail delivery with rockets and carried out corresponding tests in the Harz Mountains and in 1933 in Cuxhaven . However, they were unsuccessful and at least partially bordered on fraud, since only fireworks rockets were provided with an impressive-looking shell. The scientifically interested press fell for it. It showed a picture of sugar next to a cardboard-looking missile about four meters long mounted on a cart:

"The Hamburg designer Zucker has invented a completely new type of space rocket that can independently take photographs at the desired height and return to its launch site."

In 1934 Zucker emigrated to England . A missile demonstration in front of senior officials from the British Post, where mail was to be delivered from Harris to Scarp Island, failed on July 31, 1934. He was expelled for postal fraud and sent back to Germany, where he was imprisoned for several years. During the Second World War , Zucker served in the Air Force until his injury in 1944 .

Zucker saw the end of the war in his hometown Hasselfelde . He fled to the Lower Saxony part of the Harz, where he worked as a furniture dealer. "Zucker Gerhard, Lebensmittel" lived in 1954 in Schlich , Langerwehe parish. He later moved to Düren .

As before, he carried out missile tests. During a rocket demonstration on May 7, 1964 on the Hasselkopf in Braunlage , there was an accident that killed two people. This led to a ban on private rocket launches in West Germany, which led to the end of the rocket tests taking place in Cuxhaven by the Hermann Oberth Society and the Berthold Seliger Research and Development Company.

In the 1970s, Gerhard Zucker again carried out a few launches with postal rockets.

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SURNAME Sugar, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman and rocket engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasselfelde , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1985
Place of death Düren