Karl Poggensee

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Karl Poggensee (* 1909 ; † 1980 ) was a German rocket engineer .

Together with Reinhold Tiling he worked on the development of rockets with solid propulsion. On February 20, 1931, a rocket reached a height of 450 m on March 13, even 1,800 m.

Later Poggensee worked on the development of the V2 rocket and after the Second World War he continued his tests on solid rocket in Hespenbusch, Oldenburg . In 1952 he founded a rocket technology association, the "German Space Agency" (DAFRA), which was later renamed the "German Rocket Society " and " Hermann Oberth Society ". Just a few years later, the test site became too small, so that the following rocket launches took place on a Cuxhaven site from 1957 onwards .

Karl Poggensee was the father of the singer Renate Kern .

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  1. ^ Karl Poggensee in the Encyclopedia Astronautica , accessed on December 22, 2011 (English).
  2. Calendar sheet March 13th. Deutsche Welle, accessed on December 22, 2011 .
  3. Axel Schock: The Renate Kern story. February 15, 2000, accessed on January 19, 2012 (from: memory - magazine for friends of German oldies, No. 65): “He works in rocket research and developed a. a. the V-2 missiles. "
  4. Harald Lutz: The forgotten rocket experiments from Cuxhaven. Retrieved December 22, 2011 .
  5. Carina Werner: Rockets over the Wadden Sea. NDR, September 12, 2008, accessed December 22, 2011 .
  6. Wolfgang Miko: Singing and Suizid , 2006