Jan 27 1949

From The Space Library

Prof. Hermann Oberth is appointed Honorary President of the GfW. The appointment was made unanimously on the occasion of the one-year existence of the Society at the General Meeting where Dipl. Ing. Heinz Gartmann spoke about energy problems and performance analysis of large rockets (Leistungsanalye von Grosraketen) From the annual report given by the managing director, Heinz Hermann Kölle, it can be inferred that in the first year of its existence the society was able to attract numerous German and foreign scholars to its work and established close links with foreign scientific associations. Heinz Gartmann, who served as a missile specialist after the war in the United States and was appointed technical advisor to the US military government for Germany, was elected as the new scientific director. Koelle changed from science director to managing director. The GfW continued the tradition of the former association of the same name, which was founded in 1937 by Hans Kaiser and emerged from the old Verein für Raumschiffahrt.