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The following lists contain names of engineers, scientists and technicians specializing in rocketry who originally came from Germany but spent most of their careers working for the NASA space program in Huntsville, Alabama.
Particularly after World War II, many engineers left Germany to pursue further rocket projects in the U.S. The majority had been involved with the V-2 in Peenemünde, and 127 of them eventually entered the U.S. through Operation Paperclip. They were also known as the Von Braun Group.[1]
Before and after Operation Paperclip, other German experts arrived in the US by individual immigration without government links and would only later join various space projects, primarily at NASA.[2][3]
Andreas Alexandrakis
Rudi Beichel [4]
Wernher von Braun, Director, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama from July 1, 1960 to January 27, 1970
Werner Dahm [5]
Konrad Dannenberg
Kurt H. Debus
Ernst R. G. Eckert
Krafft Arnold Ehricke
Ernst Geissler
Dieter Grau
Walter Häussermann
Karl Heimburg
Otto Hirschler[6]
Helmut Hoelzer
Hans Hueter
Wilhelm Jungert
Georg ("George") Emil Knausenberger[citation needed]
Heinz-Hermann Koelle
Hubert E. Kroh[citation needed]
Hermann H. Kurzweg [7]
Hans Maus
Fritz Mueller [8]
Willy Mrazek
Erich W. Neubert
Hans R. Palaoro
Theodor A. Poppel
Eberhard Rees
Gerhard Reisig [9]
Georg Rickhey[10]
Werner Rosinski [11]
Ludwig Roth
Arthur Rudolph
Harry Ruppe
Friedrich von Saurma
August Schulze
Walter Schwidetzky*[12]
Ernst Stuhlinger
Bernhard Tessmann
Adolf Thiel
Albert Zeiler
Theodor Karl Otto Vowe
Georg von Tiesenhausen
Albin Wittmann
Helmut Zoike
Hans Hosenthien, Director of Flight Dynamics, Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Alabama
After Operation Paperclip
Fridtjof Speer
Walter Dornberger
Hermann Oberth
Jesco von Puttkamer
Guenter Wendt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_rocket_scientists_in_t...