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Friedrich und Hans Graf von Saurma Rocket engineer. .

Personal: Male.

Engine designer, worked at Huntsville with Von Braun. Von Saurma was a pleasant, innocuous gentlemen, but also the ranking Prussian aristrocrat of the German rocket team. Even von Braun would click his heels and bow when visiting him privately. Von Saurma was also an avid radio amateur.

Bibliography:

  • Michels, Juergen and Przybilski, Olaf, Peenemuende und seine Erben in Ost und West, Bernard & Graefe, Bonn, 1997.
  • Gray, Mike, Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon, Penguin Reprint edition, 1994.
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