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German-American Rocket Scientist Konrad Dannenberg Dies:

By Wilhelm Ludwig Kriessman: Additional material by Douglas Brough: 24th February 2009

Konrad Dannenberg, 96, one of the last members of the famous 'Von Braun' rocket team died last Monday in Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A.

Together with over 100 German Scientists, many of whom became members of the 'Paperclip Programme', he was hunted down shortly after the end of World War II by Donovans O.S.S (later C.I.A) men and held at a camp in Landsberg, Bavaria.

After intensive interviews they signed working contracts and were shipped to the U.S.A. Thanks to a special Presidential Decree by President Truman, it did not matter that some of them were members of Hitler's N.S.D.A.P.

What mattered was that they represented the brain trust of the Third Reich's armament industry: They were indeed the Cr�me de la cr�me of the rocket missile, aircraft, jet propulsion, U-Boat torpedo and tank armaments industry's.

Under the code-name "Paperclip", so named because of a paperclip attached to their file, they were debriefed at Ft. Bliss, Texas and then allowed to test their V2 rockets at the desert grounds of White Sand, New Mexico.

After the Navy's space programme failed and their former co-workers had helped the Soviet's to send Sputnik into space, Von Braun and his men were called to the servive of the United States of America.

They quickly warmed to this duty as, having gathered in Huntsville, Alabama, within a short time ballistic missiles were being produced at the Red Stone Arsenal. Saturn, Jupiter and The Explorer landing on the moon soon followed.

Konrad Dannenberg played a leading role in these developments. As a graduate of the Technische Hochschule-Mechanical Engineering-he specialized in designing propulsion systems for rockets. He worked with Von Braun at the Peenemuende Test Station near the Baltic Sea and again after the devastating bomb attacks on test labs' in Bavaria.

The picture shows Konrad Dannenberg in the Leineschloss Museum in Hannover, Germany, standing next to a P�llenberg R-7 rocket that he helped design.

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This picture is presented here in recogniotion of not only the unselfish work of Konrad Dannenberg but of all the German-American "paperclippers", some of whom are members of German World Alliance/Deutsche Welt-Allianz.

Arriving in America aboard the SS Argentina on November 16th 1945, those in the picture, taken at Fort Bliss, USA, include the following members who are listed alphabetically, surname first;

Angele, Wilhelm; Axter, Dr. Herbert;

Ball, Erich K; Bauschinger, Oscar; de Beek, Gerd W; Beichel, Rudolf; Beier, Anton; Bergeler, Herbert; Beuderftig, Hermann M; Boehm, Josef; Von Braun, Magnus; Von Braun, Dr. Wernher; Bruenecke, Erhardt; Buchhold, Dr. Theodor; Burose, Walter;

Dannenberg, Konrad K; Debus, Dr. Kurt; Dhom, Friedrich; Dobrick, Herbert; Drawe, Gerhard P; Duerr, Friedrich;

Eisenhardt, Otto K;

Fichtner, Hans; Finzel, Alfred J; Fischel, Dr. Edward; Fleischer, Karl; Friedrich, Dr. Hans; Fuhrmann, Herbert;

Geissler, Dr. Ernst; Gengelbach, Werner; Grau, Dieter E; Gruene, Dr. Hans F; Guendel, Herbert; Gustav, Johann;

Hager, Dr. Karl; Haukohl, Guenther H; Heimburg, Karl L; Hellebrand, Emil A. H; Heller, Gerhard; Helm, Bruno K; Henning, Alfred H; Heusinger, Bruno K; Hintze, Guenther; Hirschler, Otto; Hoberg, Otto A; Hoelker, Dr. Rudolf; Hoelzer, Helmut; Holderer, Oscar; Horn, Helmut; Hosenthein, Hans H; Hueter, Hans; Huzel, Dieter K. F;

Jacobi, Walter W; Jungert, Wilhelm;

Kaschig, Erich K; Klauss, Ernst K; Klein, Johann; Kroll, Gustav A; Kuers, Werner R;

Lange, Hermann; Lindenberg, Hans; Lindenmayr, Hans J; Lindner, Kurt; Luehersen, Hannes;

Mandel, Carl Heinz; Mrazek, Dr. William; Maus, Hans H; Merk, Helmut; Michel, Dr. Joseph; Milde, Hans W; Millinger, Heinz; Minning, Rudolf; Muehlner, Dr. J. W; Mueller,

Dr. Fritz; Neubert, Erich W; Neuhoefer, Kurt Kunibert Karlmann; Novak, Max E;

Paetz, Robert; Palaoro, Hans R; Patt, Kurt E; Paul, Hans G; Poppel, Theodor A;

Rees, Dr. Eberhard Friedrich Michael; Riedel, Walther; Reisig, Gerhard H; Rosinski, Werner; Roth, Ludwig; Rothe, Heinrich C; Rudolph, Dr. Arthur;

Schnarowski, Heinz Ludwig; Scheufelen, Klaus Eduard; Schilling, Dr. Martin; Schlidt, Rudolf Karl Hans; Schlitt, Dr. Helmuth; Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich; Schuler, Albert E; Schulze, William A; Schwarz, Friedrich; Schwidetzky, Dr. Walter Hans; Sendler, Karl; Spohn, Eberhard Julius; Sieber, Dr. Werner; Steinhoff, Dr. Ernst; Steurur, Dr. Wolfgang; Stuhlinger, Dr. Ernst;

Tschinkel, Dr. Johann G; Tessmann, Bernhard; Thiel, Dr. Adolf K; Tiller, Werner;

Urbanski, Arthur;

Vandersee, Fritz; Voss, Werner E; Vowe, Theodor K;

Weidner, Dr. Hermann; Wiesman, Walter; Wittmann, Albin E; Woerdemann, Hugo;

Zeiler, Albert; Zoike, Helmut.

Although the above picture is in the public domain in the United States of America because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code, courtesy dictates that we recognise the fact that this image or has been catalogued by one of the centres of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID NIX MSFC-8915531 and Alternate ID MIX 840 and is sourced from Here.

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When his friend and colleague Arthur Rudolph was shamefully forced to give up his citizenship and leave his home in California for Germany, he and 22 members of the Von Braun team petitioned President Regan in 1985 to allow Arthur Rudolf to regain his citizenship and re-enter the country. Arthur Rudolf was accused by the O.S.I (Office of Special Investigation-Dept' of Justice) of being responsible for the mistreatment and death of labour forces at the underground rocket factory at the Harz Mountain. Bearing in mind that the O.S.I only accused him, he was later cleared by a court in Germany of all charges.

After his retirement, Dannenberg kept busy with space connected affairs, lectured extensively, wrote articles and promoted the idea of space tourism.

He is survived by his wife, his son and two grand-children.

A German pioneer of space conquest:

A German-American serving his second home country:

A German-American patriot.

RIP

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