Oscar Holderer

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Oscar Holderer (back row, far left) as a team member for Operation Paperclip in 1946 at Fort Bliss, Texas

Oscar Carl Holderer (born November 4, 1919 in Prüm , German Reich ; † May 5, 2015 in Huntsville , Alabama ) was a German -American rocket engineer. As an employee of Wernher von Braun , he was involved in the construction of the Saturn V moon rocket .

Life

Oscar holderer was until the end of the Second World War in the Peenemünde Army Research Center in the development and construction of the V2 rocket involved. After the end of the war, the trained mechanical engineer first moved to Texas as part of Operation Paperclip , where he was responsible for building the first wind tunnel for rockets in the United States at Fort Bliss . One of these was later used with Holderer's significant contribution in the Apollo program for the development of the Saturn V rocket . In 1955, Holderer received US citizenship. After leaving NASA in 1974, he worked on the development of training equipment for space flights, which is still in use today at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. As a result of his development work, he was last owner of 19  patents . In 2008 he was inducted into the United States Space Camp Hall of Fame . In addition to Georg von Tiesenhausen , he was one of the two last living employees of Wernher von Braun from the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Oscar Holderer died on May 5, 2015 at the age of 95 of complications from a stroke. His first wife Inge (née Spors, 1919–1993) died on April 20, 1993 after 50 years of marriage together. He left behind a second wife, two biological sons, and a stepson and a stepdaughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German-born US rocket expert Oscar Holderer dies at 95th message from the BBC on May 7, 2015 (English, accessed on May 7, 2015).
  2. ^ Liz Hurley: Oscar Holderer, one of remaining members of the von Braun team, dies. Obituary on waff.com dated May 7, 2015 (accessed May 7, 2015).
  3. ↑ Peter Winkler: The last of the rocket men. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung of May 7, 2015 (accessed May 7, 2015).
  4. ^ Missile pioneer Holderer has died. Communication from Deutsche Welle dated May 7, 2015 (accessed on May 7, 2015).
  5. ↑ Lee Roop: Oscar Holderer dies, last of Wernher von Braun's original 'Operation Paperclip' moon rocket team. Obituary on al.com dated May 6, 2015 (accessed May 7, 2015).
  6. ↑ Wernher von Braun's last companion died. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of May 7, 2015 (accessed May 7, 2015).
personal data
SURNAME Holderer, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holderer, Oscar Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American rocket engineer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Prüm , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 5, 2015
Place of death Huntsville , Alabama , United States