Hermann Oberth
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Deutsch: Hermann Julius Oberth (June 25, 1894 – December 28, 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born, German (Transylvanian Saxon) physicist, and, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the American Robert Hutchings Goddard, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. The three were never active collaborators: instead, their parallel achievements occurred independently of one another.
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Hermann Oberth as a boy, ca. 1901.
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The first issue of Space Journal was dedicated to Dr. Hermann Oberth, 1957. (on the right: Wernher von Braun)
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Hermann Oberth 1961, detail
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with Wernher von Braun (on the right), 1961
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with Wernher von Braun in Berlin
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Oberth (in front) with fellow ABMA employees. Left to right: Dr. Ernst Stuhlinger, Major General Holger Toftoy, Oberth, Dr. Wernher von Braun, and Dr. Robert Lusser.
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Monument in Sibiu (Hermmanstadt) (sculptor??)
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Monument in Sighişoara (sculptor??)
