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Wernher von Braun was born on 23 March 1912, in the small town of Wirsitz in the Province of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia, then German Empire and now Poland. [14]His father, Magnus Freiherr von Braun (1878–1972), was a civil servant and conservative politician; he served as Minister of Agriculture in the federal government during the Weimar Republic.
Margrit Cecile von Braun was born on May 8, 1952, in Huntsville, Alabama, to Wernher von Braun and Maria Luise Von Quistorp. Von Braun was the middle child out of the three children of Wernher and Maria. She had an elder sister, Iris Careen (born December 1948), and a younger brother, Peter Constantine (born June 1960). [3] [4]
A group of 104 rocket scientists at Fort Bliss, Texas. Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959.
Victoria Iloff was born on March 28, 1961, in Huntsville, Alabama.She lived near Marshall Space Flight Center where her father, Donald Iloff – a mathematician with General Electric – was a member of GE's Saturn rocket project team led by German rocket scientist Wernher von Braun. [3]
Eva Anna Paula Hitler (née Braun; 6 February 1912 – 30 April 1945) was a German photographer who was the longtime companion and briefly the wife of Adolf Hitler. Braun met Hitler in Munich in 1929 (aged 17) when she was an assistant and model for his personal photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann. She began seeing Hitler often about two years later.
Magnus von Braun, left, Pfc. Frederick P. Schneikert, middle, and Wernher von Braun, right, pose, Tuesday, May 8, 1945, following the two von Braun scientists surrender to the U.S. Army at the end ...
During her time at Fairchild, Rosin served as the spokesperson for Dr. Wernher von Braun, with whom she created the film and educational program "It's Your Turn" to expand the diversity of people working in science fields. [4] The program won many awards, including the Aviation Writers Award and the Science Teachers Gold Medal. [2]
Christina von Braun (born 27 June 1944 in Rome) is a German sociologist, gender theorist, author and filmmaker. She is professor emeritus at Humboldt University . [ 1 ] In 2013, she was honored with the Sigmund Freud Culture Prize of the German Psychoanalytic Association (DPV) and the German Psychoanalytic Society (DPG) for her work as a scientist.