Walter Jacobi

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Walter Jacobi (born January 13, 1918 in Saalfeld / Saale ; † August 19, 2009 in Huntsville , Alabama ) was a German-American engineer and space pioneer .

Life

From 1933 to 1935 he attended the free school community in Wickersdorf near Saalfeld in the Thuringian Forest and then studied mechanical engineering at the Ilmenau Engineering School, which has merged into the Ilmenau Technical University . From 1940 to 1945 Jacobi worked in rocket development around Wernher von Braun at the Peenemünde Army Research Center on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom .

After the end of the Second World War he came to the United States in the context of Operation Paperclip , where he arrived in November 1945. Initially he worked at Fort Bliss , then at the Redstone Arsenal and finally at the Marshall Space Flight Center of the US space agency NASA . At the time of the Apollo program , Jacobi was part of the Propulsion and Vehicle Engineering Laboratory at the Marshall Space Flight Center.

From this Jacobi was born in 2008 during the anniversary celebrations on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the US presence in space ( 50th Anniversary of America in Space ) together with other rocket pioneers such as Konrad Dannenberg , Hans Fichtner , Walter Häussermann , Oscar Holderer , Rudolf Schlidt and Georg von Tiesenhausen honored with a memorial plaque.

Kurt Lindner Wilhelm Jungert Kurt Debus Eduard Fischel Hans Gruene Willi Mrazek ? Helmut Schlitt Herbert Axster Theodor Vowe Rudolf Beichel Bruno Helm Oscar Holderer Rudolf Minning Hans Friedrich Guenther Haukohl Friedrich Dhom Bernhard Tessmann Karl Heimburg Ernst Geissler Friedrich Duerr ? Hans Milde Hannes Lührsen Kurt Patt Otto Eisenhardt Johann Tschinkel Gerhard Drawe Gerhard Heller Josef Maria Boehm Joachim Mühlner Arthur Rudolph Wilhelm Angele Erich Ball Bruno Heusinger Max Nowak Fritz Müller Alfred Finzel Herbert Fuhrmann Ernst Stuhlinger Herbert Guendel Hans Fichtner Karl Hager Werner Kuers Hans Maus Herbert Bergeler Walter Hans Schwidetzky Rudolf Hoelker Erich Kaschig Werner Rosinski Heinz Schnarowski Fritz Vandersee Arthur Urbanski Werner Tiller Hugo Woerdemann Martin Schilling Albert Schuler Hans Lindenmayer Helmut Zolke Hans Paul Heinrich Rothe Ludwig Roth Ernst Steinhoff Gerhard Reisig Ernst Klaus Hermann Weidner Hermann Lange Robert Paetz Helmut Merk Walter Jacobi Dieter Grau Friedrich Schwarz Wernher von Braun Albin Wittmann Otto Hoberg Wilhelm Schulze ? Adolf Thiel Walter Wiesemann Theodor Buchhold Eberhard Rees Otto Heinrich Hirschler Theodor Poppel Werner Voss Gustav Kroll Anton Beier Albert Zeiler Rudolf Schlidt Wolfgang Steurer Gerd De Beek Heinz Millinger Konrad Dannenberg Hans Palaoro Erich Neubert Werner Sieber Emil Hellebrandt Hans Henning Hosenthien Oscar Bauschinger Joseph Michel Klaus Scheufelen Walter Burose Karl Fleischer Werner Gengelbach Hermann Beduerftig Guenther Hintze
The Project Paperclip team at Fort Bliss. (by moving the mouse pointer over the faces, the names are shown)

Walter Jacobi died at the age of 91.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Dudek: “Everything is a good average”? Impressions of the student body of the FSG Wickersdorf 1906–1945 . In: JHB 23rd Yearbook for Historical Educational Research 2017 . Julius Klinkhardt, Bad Heilbrunn 2018, ISBN 978-3-7815-2237-4 , pp. 234-279 (citation: p. 270).
  2. ↑ Student directory of the Free School Community Wickersdorf . In: Archives of the German youth movement , Ludwigstein Castle near Witzenhausen in Hesse.
  3. ^ University of Alabama: Transplanted Rocket Pioneers. (PDF) 2015, p. 84 , accessed on October 28, 2015 (English).
  4. ↑ Walter Jacobi in the Encyclopedia Astronautica (English)
  5. ↑ America honors the last of the German rocketeers . In: Houston Chronicle , Jan. 31, 2008 at: chron.com
  6. ↑ Huntsville rocket scientist Jacobi dies at 91 Chattanooga Times Free Press.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American engineer and space pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Saalfeld / Saale
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2009
Place of death Huntsville , Alabama