Werner Sieber Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC-67

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Documents and correspondence realting to the life and career of Werner Sieber.

Dates

Creation: 1860 - 1994

Creator

Sieber, Werner (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research in the Archives & Special Collections reading room. Handling guidelines and use restrictions will be communicated and enforced by archives staff members.

Conditions Governing Use

This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though the University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.

Biographical / Historical

Werner Hans Sieber (March 27, 1912 to April 3, 1995) was a guided missiles expert during WWII (Wade). He received his education from Technical University, Hanover (Lundquist). Sieber was taken to the United States through Operation Paperclip, where he joined von Braun's Rocket Team. By 1960, [Sieber was the] “Head of Measuring Consoles and Instrumentation Division, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Test Division, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center" (Wade). “In the February 1969 MSFC Directory (five months before the first lunar landing) he is listed as Chief of the Test Instrumentation and Control Division of the Test Laboratory” (Lundquist).

Sources

Lundquist, Charles. "Transplanted Rocket Pioneers," 2015.

Wade, Mark. "Sieber, Werner." Encyclopedia Astronautica, http://www.astronautix.com/s/sieber.html.

Extent

10.5 Linear feet (9 boxes and 1 object.)

Language of Materials

German

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Curtis Sieber, 2011.

Existence and Location of Copies

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Processing Information

Collections are processed to a variety of levels, depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived research value, the availability of staff, and competing priorities. The library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections as they are acquired and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit.