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Alma mater
  
Darmstadt


Name
  
Helmut Holzer

Helmut Holzer

Born
  
February 27, 1912Bad Liebenstein, Thuringen, German Empire (
1912-02-27
)

Died
  
October 12, 1996(1996-10-12) (aged 84)Huntsville, Alabama, United States

Fields
  
Electrical Engineering, Applied mathematics

Institutions
  
1933-tbd: teaching1939: Telefunken (Berlin)1939-1945: Peenemunde1940\'s-1950\'s: Fort Bliss/WSPG1950\'s-1950\'s: Redstone Arsenal1950\'s-1960\'s: ABMA1960-1970\'s: Marshall Space Flight Center (Director, Computation Division)

Known for
  
Designing an electronic simulator for the V-2 rocket control system.

Helmut Hoelzer was a Nazi Germany V-2 rocket engineer who was brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip.

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Life

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In October 1939, while working for the Telefunken electronics firm in Berlin, Hoelzer met with Ernst Steinhoff, Hermann Steuding, and Wernher von Braun regarding guide beams for a flying body. In late 1940 at Peenemünde, Hoelzer was head of the guide beam division (assistant Henry Otto Hirschler), which developed a guide-plane system which alternates a transmitted signal from two antennas a short distance apart, as well as a vacuum tube mixing device (German: Mischgerät) which corrected for momentum that would perturb an object that had been moved back on-track. By the fall of 1941, Hoelzer's "mixing device" was used to provide V-2 rocket rate measurement instead of rate gyros.

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Then at the beginning of 1942, Hoelzer built an analog computer to calculate and simulate V-2 rocket trajectories Hoelzer's team also developed the Messina telemetry system. After evacuating Peenemünde for the Alpenfestung (Alpine Fortress), Hoelzer returned to Peenemünde via motorcycle to look for portions of his PhD dissertation prior to surrendering to United States forces at the end of World War II.

Family

One of his grandchildren is Olympic swimmer Margaret Hoelzer.

References

Helmut Hölzer Wikipedia


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