Walter Dornberger

Major-General Dr Walter Robert Dornberger (6 September 1895 - 27 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World Wars I and II . He was a leader of Germany's V2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemunde...

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...Germany and the Race ends with a German surrender after Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Fuhrer, is killed and replaced by Walter Dornberger. Dornberger agrees to disband the Axis Forces, withdraw German troops from occupied France , and disband the...

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...motor tests. Von Braun was working on his creative doctorate when the Nazi Party gained power in Germany. An artillery captain, Walter Dornberger, arranged an Ordnance Department research grant for von Braun, who from then on worked next...

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...Pietsch. After forming a partnership Rudolph began design on a new engine, while Pietsch looked for a backer. Pietsch met with Walter Dornberger, who had been tasked by the German Ordnance Department to develop a rocket weapons system and had...

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...to do so. He was interested in the development of both solid-fuel and liquid-fuel rockets. Later, one of his subordinates, Walter Dornberger became important as leader of the V-2 rocket program. Wernher von Braun was hired in 1932. From...

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...many German scientists were taken to the United States by the Central Intelligence Agency's "Operation Paperclip". Among them was Dr. Walter Dornberger, the former head of Germany's wartime rocket program, who had detailed knowledge of the...

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...aerodynamic lift and range. He also proposed the Flossengeschoss (fin projectile). Both concepts were utilized by Walter Dornberger when he drafted a memo for presentation to Hitler regarding the "America rocket" on July 31, 1940. The A4b in...

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On November 1, 1932, Dr Walter Thiel (March 2 1910 - August 18 1943) was the third civilian hired by Walter Dornberger for German research at Kummersdorf (after Wernher von Braun & Heinrich Grunow) and in 1936, transferred to Dornberger's...

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...film and scale models of the Watten bunker and mobile launching-troop vehicles . Instead of the "shoot-and-run" mobile launching Walter Dornberger advocated (and eventually used), Hitler reaffirmed that there should be more than one fixed...

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...as the RaBo (Raketenbomber or "rocket bomber"). It was one of a number of designs considered for the Amerika Bomber mission. When Walter Dornberger attempted to create interest in military spaceplanes in the United States after World War II,...

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