Robert Schmucker

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Robert Schmucker (born August 18, 1943 in Eger ) teaches as an adjunct professor at the Technical University of Munich at the chair for space technology based in Garching .

Life

Schmucker is an internationally recognized rocket expert . His areas of expertise include a. “Remote weapons in developing countries” and the topic “Use and commercialization of space travel”. As a student, in 1962 he founded the WARR - Scientific Working Group for Rocket Technology and Space Travel. In 1970 he became a Dr.-Ing. PhD and in 1974 he qualified as a professor .

Schmucker was u. a. in the 1980s head of development at Bayern-Chemie GmbH in Aschau am Inn and Ottobrunn .

From 1995 to 1998, Schmucker was a member of the UN inspection team in Iraq . The Munich company that he founded, Schmucker Technologie, also advises NATO on missile issues .

On October 27, 2004, in an interview with Deutschlandfunk , Schmucker stated that Iran should certainly pursue the goal of acquiring nuclear weapons. On November 25, 2004, he repeated in an interview with Spiegel-online that Iranian missile technology suggests that Iran intends to produce nuclear weapons .

In the case of North Korea, however, Schmucker gave the all-clear several times. In April 2017, for example, after testing a medium-range missile, he said: "[...] they try a lot, but it is not dangerous [...] North Korea is still many, many years away from a seriously deployable ICBM with a larger warhead." threatened attack on the US Pacific base in August 2017 expressed Schmucker: "I myself am not even sure if he wanted to try to Guam to meet that he would meet Guam. Guam is within easy reach, the USA is far too far away. "

Schmucker is also not convinced of the North Korean nuclear weapons tests , which have been criticized worldwide and punished with UN sanctions . “I'm not even sure they even have atomic bombs. [...] And in order to be able to use a nuclear weapon, it first has to work and it has to be flown. They are still missing a lot. "

Social

Together with his wife Renate, Robert Schmucker founded the "Findelkind Social Foundation" in 2010.

Awards

Schmucker and his wife were awarded the Bavarian Order of Merit on July 13, 2016 by Prime Minister Horst Seehofer in the Antiquarium of the Munich Residence .

  • 1981: Ring of Honor of the Association of German Engineers (VDI) e. V.
  • 1981: Solid Rocket Technical Achievement Award from the American Institute for Astronautics and Aeronautics (AIAA)

Books

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. Volume 2. 17th edition. Walter de Gruyter, 1996, ISBN 3-11-014915-X , p. 1236
  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar. 18th edition. Saur, 2001, ISBN 3-598-23603-4 , p. 2859

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chair of Space Technology: Staff
  2. ↑ source? no evidence of this on http://www.schmucker.de/portrait/portrait.htm
  3. ↑ deutschlandfunk.de
  4. ↑ dw.com
  5. ↑ rnz.de
  6. ^ Website of the social foundation of the Schmucker family
personal data
SURNAME Schmucker, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmucker, Robert Hans (full name); Schmucker, Robert H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rocket specialist, professor at the Technical University of Munich at the chair for space technology
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Eger