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Wernher von
Braun, born on the 23.03.1912 in Wyrzysk (Wirsitz), in the
former Prussian administrative district Posen, belongs to the
most important personalities of the rocket research and the
astronautics of the 20. century. In his personality one can
find a great curiosity a highly scientific level, a
strong will to the technical realization of scientific
discoveries, an almost unique organization talent, the feeling
for power constellations and the ability, to make difficult
and complicate facts clear to everybody. These special
qualifications are the key traits of his career.
No other
place like the rocket testing ground in Kummersdorf-Gut makes it
clear at the same time, how these traits in a totalitarian
regime can be abused in an awful way. Wernher von Braun has
involved himself more and more in
the terror of the National Socialist regime
in the course of
his career – from a hanger-on to an accomplice.
Nevertheless his skills and his character helped him to start
a second career
after 1945
(image 1,
image 2,
image 3,
image 4) in the USA, which highlight was the Saturn-V- booster
rocket and the manned space flight to the moon.
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