Hermann Oberth

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