Helmut Arthur Hoeppner
From The Space Library
![]() Helmut Hoeppner ca. 1959 | |
Birth Name | Helmut Arthur Hoeppner |
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Birth Date | Jul 19 1911 |
Birth Place | Ueskueb Turkey |
Occupation | Engineer |
Nationality | Germany |
Notable Works | Displacement Energy |
Contents |
Education
Technical Academy Chemnitz and Technical University Dresden, Germany
Employment
- Klemm Aircraft Company, Stuttgart
- Luftwaffe
- Associate engineer at Peenemunde working on V2
- Messerschmitt Aircraft Company in Augsburg working on ME-163 and ME-262
- IBM in Stuttgart (1951-54)
- Bell Aircraft in Buffalo New York at the invitation of Walter Dornberger (1954-1956)
- ABMA Redstone Arsenal working as assistant to Professor Oberth (1956-1958)
- Chief Astronautics scientist at Chrysler Corporation Missile Division in Detroit Michigan (1959- )
Associations
- Early contributor and board member of the post war rocket society GfW Stuttgart
- Member of the British Interplanetary Society
- Member of the American Rocket Society
- Contributing consultant to Billy Isbell's Space Journal Magazine in Huntsville.
- Advisor to the Michigan State Special Committee on Space Law.
Publications
Is Time the Missing Link - Displacement Energy with Billy Isbell (Space Journal Sept 1959)
Die optimale Lastrakete zur Außenstation in 1669 km Höhe, in: Forschungsbericht Nr. 8 der Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung. Stuttgart 1951 (with Heinz Hermann Koelle delivered at IAC London 1951)
Space Vehicle Recovery (Society of Automotive Engineers #62-4186, Natl. Aero. U Space Eng. Mfg. Meeting, Los Angeles, Calif.. Oct. 9-13, 1961)
Die Satellitenrakete with K.B. Schonenberger (Proceedings 1952)
Further Development of the Freight Rocket with H. Kühme (JBIS 1952)
Helmut Hoeppner with a model of his SR52 rocket. (1952)