SCIENT/MIL/LIST OF GERMAN ROCKET SCIENTISTS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06437417
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• Document Creation Date: July 13, 2023
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2022
• Case Number: F-2021-00625
• Publication Date: December 21, 1946

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before further routing. This Record and Routing Sheet should be returned to Registry.
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NAME OF FIRM
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL
LOCATION .
Rheinmetallwerke
Montania Werk
Locomotive Factory
Former Branch of
ASKANIA
Junkers
'''Junker
s.
GAIA0
Institute Rabe
(b)(3)
Mr Behnke
Dr. Grottrup
Dr 1 Grottrup
Dr Ing Loerzing
Dr Ing Grottrup
Near Leningrad (experiments)
Sommerda (research)
Bleicherode/Harz (30 km west)
(production)
Nordhausen (production)
Niedersachswerfin (produdtion
plant dismantled)
Lehesten (production ceased)
Nordhausen (V-2 production)
Berlin-Koepenick (gyro-steerh.
ing equipment)
Dessau, Germany (experiments
on modifying V-1 as airplane)
Bornholm (experimental firing)
Dessau, Germany (experiments)
confirms TI-4565
Spremberg - bases being built
for V-is
Berlin-Koepenick (perfecting
V-2
Prizren to Djakovica to Kosovo
to Skoplje to Debar area,
Yugoslavia ( ramps for V-4 &
5)
Oesel Island (experimental
firing)
Peenemunde (test firings of
V-2s
Bleicherode (HQ for V weapon
research)
1
Nikolayev (construction of V-4
Elnicherode (research)
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Bleicherode and Klein Bodun-
gen (raw V-weapon centers &
furnacs being produced in
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NAME OF FIRM
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL LOCATION
(b)(3)
ACITIVITY
Gayer
(existed in '44)
Prof Ritschel
Dr Ing Rolf Coermann
Ing Chernov
Montania Werke
Heinkel Plant
Rheinmetall-Borsig
Kalibergwerk
Hasag(Hugo
Schneider A.G.
Gluckauf
Rabe-Stiftung
Werke E.W.
Central Office
Tech Dept,
Ministry for
Electrical Ind.
Recrmor:d(?)
Dr Neidhardt
Grottrupp
Serman
Reitz
Rosenplenter
Buschbeck
Eizenberger
Krieger
Koswig
Draeger
Lehesten, Germ/RZ
Artern, Germ
Near Nordhausen,
Harz
Nordhausen
Osterode
Sommerda
Stassfprt
Saalfeld, Thuringia
Germany(Rz)
Bleicherode
Vicinity of Nord-
hausen
Oesel
Near Helsinki
Leipzig
Sondershausen
Bleicherode, Sud-Harz
Ostend Strasse 34
Berlin, Oberschoene-
weide
Regrmond Strasse,
Oberschoeneweide
Testing Block III
built.
Research
IMEXXIMUKKKKAU
V-weapon Factory
Plant being built
Experimental shops
Production V-weapons
V-4 rocket Sight
Guiding device for
V-4
Factories V-1 & V-2
Emplacements for
shooting
Possible launching
toilers being man-
ufactured
Manufacture of
precision parts of
V-2
lace of shipment of
Hasag parts
Production of V-4s
Research
Research for remote
control and auto
correction of div-
ergence
Bizerba
Dip Ing Lusser
Germany(Fr Zone)
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V-lsteering devide
research
V-1,,ggpx,kig device
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NAME OF FIRM
B.M.W. WORKS
Siebel Works
Nordwerke
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL LOCATION
near Nordhausen
Peenemunde
Porkkala area,
Finland
Spandau & Basdorf
Lt Col Vlasov (Russian) Halle
Major Berglesov "
Ing. Schell German
Dr Fecher
Emmerich
Brunnquell MINIX
Lindner & Co XAMMX
Metelwerke
BmbH
Institut Rabe Herr Ruck
Niedersechswerfen
Bebra
Jecha
Kleinbodungen
Nordhausen
Bleicherode, Sudharz
Lichtentanns
Nordhausen and
Bleicherode
Leuna Werke Merseburg
Ludwigshafen
Waldenburg
Heydebreck
Elektrochemische Werke Muchen AG Hollriegelskreuth
(Am Zone Gem)
Otto Schickert & Co KG Bad Lauterberg
(Br Zone Germ)
Bleicherode, Sudharz
Bodelshausen
(lb 2 Olfe e'el,�1�4447)
ACTIVITY
V-Weapon production
Experimentation &
research & dev
Launching sites
V-2 Construction
!Fuel experimentation!
V-weapon installa-
tion dismahied by
Russians
U It
II It
V-weapon plant
V-2 plant
Experimental
Installations
Production suspended.
pending removal of
machinery to Russia
Propellant produc tin
V-2 Production
Laboratory for constr-
uction of long dist-
ance rockets with
automatic steering
gears
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NAME OF FIRM
Mittelwerke GmbH
Institut Rabe
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL
Herr Ruck
Russian Technical Tromsdorf, Dr
Commission
Siebel Werke
Dr. Schober, Berlin-
Charlottenburg, Reich-
strasse
Kreisel-Siemens-Gema Col Sherdok
installation of Soviet Col Grudnitzki
Naval Forces
Dr. Siegmund
Junkers Flugzeugwerke
(Geyeina Group)
Kreisel-Siemens-Gema Wilke, Rudolf
Wendt, Gerd
Kerkhoff, Horst
Tornow
Janders, Waltraud
Sliwinsky, Edith
Naulin, Willi
Lange, Karl
Tieger, Kurt
Technisch-Physikalische Werk-statten
of AEG
LOCATION ACTIVITY (b)(3)
Nordhausen V -2s being made
Bleicherode, Sudharz -Experimen-
tal installations
Schoeneweide Drawing & constru-
ction office
for rocket guns
Halle New types V-wea-
pons being tested
Sondershausen V-weapons factory
)v-2)
Mayenburg V-ls produced
Berlin-Friedrichsh- V-1 et Vp2
agen, Puerstenwalder- steering
damm 141 gears made
'Berlin4feissensee,
Berliner Alle 107-110 assembled
tt tt
Berlin Research for
sting for V-3
& V-4, aiming
devices gc guages
Riebow-Hohenschoenhausen/ Rocket
Berlin/Z95 propulsion re-
search
Dessa
Production of jet
motors that can
be modified for
V-ls
Lehesteh Assembly factory
for if-rockets
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aNUMINIUMEMINKMUM
Remote control
BERLIN steering, bearing
& aiming devices
Harz Mountains
and near Berlin
Berlin-Reinick-
endorf
Hulls for Vp3&4
integrating accel-
erometers built
for M-2
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A. I. Kuzmetsov
Russian Colonel who ordered ten integrating accelerometers
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NAME OF FIRM
Messerschmitt
(During War)
Elektro-Mechanische Genmaj Zansen
Werkstatten, Karlshagen Genmaj Dornberger
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NAME OF INDIVIDUAL
Bintinger
Walter Bogen
(German FAT interrogated
H It
LOCATION
Oberammergau
France
Pennemunde
& later Harz
Mountains
Bleicherode
(Harz)
ACTIVITY (b)(3)
Me 328's rocket
powered plane of
flying bomb type
sent to Japan
Use of radar to
counteract V-1
attacks launched
from France against
England
Laboratory and
testing station
for V-2s
Research for
steering and
Control
Peenemunde
later NEUBLEICHERODE/ Flak rocket
WKSSERFALL
Feldkirch
Port Arthur &
Chinkai, Japan
Karlshagen
Debica, Poland
Montabaur
Midalltax Limburg & )
Mountabaur)
Nordhausen
General Kammler - CG
of all German V-2 Unite
ehmann
XVIcitz Rohde
Atknikm Ralle
Schauss �
Schlesinger, Hauptmann
Walter
Glaser
ammtx Graetz
Hawlizeok
Officers in 2 Huck
Nabenhauer
Rettig
Schwarz
Steinke
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Produced li-3s at
Vorarlberg
V-is installed on
subs - bases for
Jtat /
tests olsubAs
Guide Beam for V-2
V-2 battery
Nesting lab for fuels
V-2 Launching site
it II
Liquid Oxygen Plants
Factory
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NAME OF FIRM NAME OF INDIVIDUAL
LOCATION
ACTIVITY
(b)(3)
Ludwigshafen
Luena
Luena
Dr. Rebbe,
Dr. Strombeck
Dr. Harold
I. G. Farben Dr. Penzig
Japan Copy of V-1
(Mukden to Wuhan
Area)
(?) Gelenkte Bombon
von
E. Fisehol
Propellants for rockets
itIt ,.It
Experimenting with
H202
Near Ungstein Fuel Research
Vorabdruck
Berlin
Society for Precision Dr. Hausler
Instrument Construction
Inc.
* Of interest only as related to V weapons. V-1 and V-2
replaced plans for firing 200kg projectile.
Oppau works of
I.G.Farben
Stassfurter Rundfunk
Gesellschaft
Deutsche Wernichsanstalt
Luftfahrt
George
Dr./Pfleiderer.
USSR
Report on German
Guided Missles - 1944
Report on plans for
electrically fired
AA Gun for firing
large caliber rockets.
V-weapon engnrs
GermanAtztmxtixtxxx
working in Soviet war
factories
Germany Hydrogen Peroxide
production method
Theodor Sturm Stassfurt
Germany
Prof Wagner
Dr. Marcard
Dr. Runge
Development of radio
controlled projectiles
Proximity Fuse Expert
It
It
Leba AA weapon tests
Lnear Nassereith,
Austria
Near Heiterwang
Austria
Cf E of Bad Tolz
CE
40km South
oMunich
V-2 Components (b)(3)
V-2 Components
V-2 -g-a- (b)(3)
2000 meters n. of Emden &
700 meters E. of RR inter-
section & Hinterstrasse
In woods near Amstetten
5 km southsoutheast of
Geislingen
V-2 factory
V-2 factories
(numerous)
Ueberlingen V-bombs
20 km East of Leipzig
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Name of FIRM
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL LOCATION
Calcium mine 12 km
sw of Dresden
Munsterlager
Haslach in Kinzig
River Valley
Litanerice in
Sudetenland, Czech-
oslovakia
Near Orlamunde
18 km ssw of Jena
(b)(3)
ACTIVITY
V-1
V-weapons
V-1 and V-2 parts
and motors
Paris 'for V-
weapons '
Parts for \T_
weapons
1.6 km S of Rastatt V-1 production
Tunnel on rr line be- V-1 'launching
tween Wemmetsweiler & platform
Merchweiler
Niedersadhserfen V-weapons
6,mk nnw of Nordhausen
1.5 km n of Leheston V-plant in
famer slate
quarry
%
near Kordingen
Mosbach
Powder plants sup-
posed to produce
_griespulver used in
V-1
Tail surfaces for
V-1, V-2, & V-3
Fallingbostel Launching apparatus
for V-2's
100 m east of Weiler � Parts for V-1
RR station
Outskirst of Melk, Outer coverings for
Austria V-1
500 m north of
Lochmuhle station V-1 production
Southwest of Dresden Bombs for V-1
300 m north Dernau V-3 bombs
-flint%
Ecker-Tal
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V-1
Powder for V-lt s
V-1 powder
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(b)(3)
Name of Firm Name of Individual L cation
Rocket Research
Section of
Peenemunde
Prof. von Braun.
Island of Rugen
near Bergen
Vicinity of Augs-
berg
Bleicherode
Harz Mountains
Ainring
near Salzburg
Schonefeld
Juterbog
Kaufering
Near Liechtenstein
border
Southern Norway
BelchenRiver in
Black Forest 9 km
West of Todtnau
Feldberg
Bornholm
Jutland
Germany
Between Walchensee
and Kochelsee 60 km
s-sw of Munich
Emden
Vogelenzang & Heemste
Warmond, Leiden &
Was senaar
Activity
V-1 Assembly
V-1 & V-2 bombs
V weapon laboratory
Conversion of V-1
into Fig fighter,
single seater
Testing field for
converted V-is
V-launching ramps
Presence of V-2s
for launching on
London
Launching ramps
for V-2
Experimental bases
for V-4
V -launching
V-2 Factory
ramps
de Installations
blown up
Equipment
destroyed
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(b)(3)
NAME OF FIRM NAME OF INDIVIDUAL LOCATION
Reichsvermehranstalt
Yamada
Bergen
Zandvoort
Karlshagen &
Frievrichshafen
Wiener-Neustadt
Diresden
Bodenbach
Saxony
Ypenberg
.Donawitz
Ober Raderach
Langenargen Area
Delft,
Netherlands
Staalduinsche Woods,
Netherlands
Tokyo
Legnano
ACTIVITY
. V-3 launching
Television sight for
V-1 invented
V-weapon launching
Research on V weapons
Factory producing all
parts of V-2 in its
entirety
Small parts for Vp2
produced
V-3s launched
Launching sites
V-bomb plant
Small plants for V-baths
Launching sites
Launching sites
Launching sites
tans for V-2 and V-1
taken to 'Tokyo for
production purposes
V-4 built
Ypenburg Airfield,
Netherlands
The liscxgx Hague
Rhenen, Nether-
. lands
Erzlingen-Mettingen
tal-Urtr-
V-3 launching site
V-2 launching site
V-weapons
Manufacture of
secret weapon
Winged bombs for
above weapon
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NAME OF FIRM NAME OF INDIVIDUAL LOCATION
SE of Oslo
G.E.M.A. Factories OSENBERG, a Berlin-Kopenick
young Viennese and Wahlstatt
scientist
(b)(3)
ACTIVITY
V weapon assembly plant
Invention & development
of V-weapons
Gen DORNBERGER Peanemunde Engineers for design
Prof von Braun and construction of
Prof Wierer A-4 rocket.
Dr. Friedrichs
Dip Ing Uffz Bach(Friedrichs Asst)
Gen Dornberger
Dr Strobel
Dip Ing Krauke
Dip Ing Elendas
Dr. Meuser
Dr Ing Ingele
Dr Stattin
Major Martin
Oberstlt Hannusch
Hauptmann Namenhauer
Hauptmann Muller
Hauptmann Huck
Dip Ing Gefr Zeitler
Dip Ing Rerz
Dip Ing Uffz Bergmeister
Gefreiter Baher
Prof Dr Radje
Dr. Ballhorn
Glue & Gelatine
factory
Puttershoek &
Vondelingenplaat,
Netherlands
Launching Sites
Ueberlingen near V-bomb underground
the Bodensee
Vlaardingen, V-1 launching site
Netherlands
Delft, V-3 launching site
Netherlands V weapon activities
Vondelingenplaat Launching site
In Rotterdam-South
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Bennebroek &
Vogelenzang,
Netherlands
Leeuwarden
(b)(3)
Launching sdtes
V-2 sites
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NAME OF FIRM NAME OF INDIVIDUAL LOCATION ACTIVITY
Nyverdal Launching Site
Rotterdam- Launching Site
South
Tongeren V-1 launching site
The Hague V-2 Launching site '(0)(3)
Husum
Immenstedt
Eggebek
Rendsburg .
in
Schleswig, Germany
West of Barendrecht
Mainau(Island)
Deventer
Langenstein
Germany
Near Walsrode
Breloh
Nr Munsterlager,
Germany
in quarries at
Haslach
Pernis,
The Netherlands
Neuensothrieth
Aken,
Dessau
Vondelingenplaat
Rastatt-Baden-Achern-
Freudenstadt area
V Launching Ramps
(b)(3)
V-1 launched
V-1 & V-2 installations
V-1 launchings
V-1 Plant
V-1 factory
fills V-1 warheads with
explosives
V-weapons depot and txsti
testing ground
V-weapons produced, also
gas for new V-weapons
Underground Factory
V-1 launching sites
V-1 and V-28 may be being
produced
Manufactures V-1 and V-2
Partially assemble V-1 &
V-2s made at Aken
V Weapon laundhings
V-2 launching ramps
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NAME OF FIRM NAME OF INDIVIDUAL LOCATION ACTIVITY
West of � Launching Ramps
Werschweiler
Raderach V-1"Plant "
Dordrecht V-2 launching ramp
Erndtebruck V-2 depot (b)(3)
& Valve
Orlamunde Manufacture of
V-weapon components
Litomerice, Parts for V-weapons &
Czecho or Germany precision parts
for V-1,V-2, & V-3
manufadtured
Bayrischzell Constructing V-
weapon plants
Bohler Steel Works Kapfenberg, Austria Casings for V-1
(Suchard chocolate factory) at Lorrach Parts for Vpl & V-2
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