Otto Heinrich Hirschler

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Otto Heinrich Hirschler ( Henry Otto Hirschler ) (born December 14, 1913 in Darmstadt , † February 2, 2001 in Huntsville (Alabama) ) was a German-American rocket pioneer.

Life

He studied electrical engineering at the TH Darmstadt and joined Wernher von Braun's team in the late 1930s . As assistant to Helmut Hölzer , he worked on the flight simulation at the Peenemünde Army Research Institute.

After the war he came to the USA in Operation Overcast on November 16, 1945 from Le Havre on board the Argentina , where he worked for the US Army in Fort Bliss until 1947 and later for NASA in Huntsville. In 1970 he was the last German to work at the Marshall Space Flight Center .

Otto Heinrich Hilscher was married to Ilse, who died in 1989, and had 6 children (5 sons and 1 daughter).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ NY Times, February 9, 2001
personal data
SURNAME Hirschler, Otto Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschler, Henry Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rocket pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 2001
Place of death Huntsville, Alabama