Hermann Oberth

Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard and Herman Potočnik. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross in 1943.

25 June 1894

Born on the same birth day (25 June): David Douglas (botanist) • Eva Bayer-Fluckiger • Georges Courteline • Greg Raymer • Ian Davis (cricketer) • Jhonas Enroth • Marc Janko • Mario Lessard • Rain (entertainer) • Richard Clarke (bishop) • Sione Mata'utia • Therese Johaug • V. P. Singh • Vic Marks • William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury • Willis Reed

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