Category
page 1German aerospace engineers
Wernher von Braun
German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
Otto Lilienthal
German aviation pioneer (1848-1896)
Hugo Junkers
German aviation pioneer (1859–1935)
Willy Messerschmitt
German aircraft designer and manufacturer (1898-1978)
Ernst Heinkel
aircraft designer and manufacturer (1888-1958)
Kurt Tank
German aircraft designer (1898–1983)
Claudius Dornier
German aerospace engineer and inventor (1884–1969)
Walter Dornberger
German general (1895–1980)
Hans von Ohain
German aerospace engineer (1911-1998)
Gustave Whitehead
possible first powered manned flight (1874–1927)
Henrich Focke
German aviation pioneer (1890–1979)
Walter Hohmann
German engineer (1880-1945)
Alexander Lippisch
German pioneer of aerodynamics (1894-1976)
Anton Flettner
German aviation pioneer (1885–1961)
Helmut Gröttrup
German engineer and inventor of the smart card (1916-1981)
Willy Ley
German-American science and science-fiction writer (1906–1969)
Karl Rapp
German engineer (1882-1962)
Johannes Winkler
German aerospace engineer (1897-1947)
Walter Thiel
German rocket scientist (1910-1943)
Horten brothers
aircraft designers
Kurt H. Debus
rocket engineer and scientist (1908–1983)
Engelbert Zaschka
German engineer, inventor and helicopter pioneer (1895–1955)
Ludwig Bölkow
German aerospace engineer (1912–2003)
Gustav Otto
German aerospace engineer (1883–1926)
Reinhold Platz
German aircraft designer (1886–1966)
Magnus von Braun
German engineer (1919–2003)
Adolf Busemann
German engineer (1901–1986)
Irmgard Flügge-Lotz
German mathematician (1903–1974)
Max Friz
German aerospace engineer (1883-1966)
Wolf Hirth
German gliding pioneer (1900-1959)
Dieter Grau
Rocket scientist (1913-2014)
Richard Vogt
German engineer and aircraft designer
Guenter Wendt
American aerospace engineer (1923–2010)
Walter Rethel
German aircraft designer (1892–1977)
Paul Haenlein
German aerospace engineer (1835-1905)
Konrad Dannenberg
Rocket pioneer (1912-2009)
Hellmuth Hirth
German aerospace engineer (1886-1938)
Hermann Ganswindt
German aerospace engineer (1856–1934)
Edgar Schmued
German aircraft designer (1899-1985)
Robert Lusser
German aerospace engineer (1899-1969)
Martin Schempp
German engineer (1905–1984)
Ludwig Dürr
German airship designer (1878–1956)
Hans Jacobs
German aerospace engineer (1907–1994)
Alfred Maul
German engineer (1870–1942)
Felix Kracht
German aerospace engineer (1912–2002)
Paul Schmidt
German engineer and inventor (1898–1976)
Georg Wulf
German engineer (1895-1927)
Oskar Ursinus
German aerospace engineer (1877–1952)
Heinrich Hertel
German aerospace engineer (1901-1982)
Theodor Kober
Aircraft builder (1865-1930)
Helmut Hölzer
German rocket engineer (1912-1996)
Brunolf Baade
German aeronautical engineer (1904-1969)
Alexander Baumann
German aerospace engineer (1875–1928)
Ernst R. G. Eckert
American aerospace engineer
Ernst Steinhoff
rocket scientist (1908–1987)
Walter Haeussermann
German-American aerospace engineer (1914-2010)
Krafft Arnold Ehricke
German aerospace engineer (1917–1984)
Georg von Tiesenhausen
Baltic German–American aerospace engineer (1914-2018)
Jesco von Puttkamer
German-American aerospace engineer; senior NASA manager (1933-2012)
Georg Hans Madelung
German aerospace engineer (1889–1972)