Hermann Rudolf Wagner Collection

Collection

Identifier: MC-75

Staff Only

Dates

Creation: 1945 - 2014

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

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Biographical / Historical

Hermann Rudolf Wagner was born August 3, 1910, and died January 8, 1999 (Lundquist). Wagner graduated in 1939 from the Engineering School of City of Dresden, receiving a mechanical and structural engineering degree (Lundquist).

Wagner would go on to work at Peenemünde from 1939 to 1945 “as a design engineer for launching and handling equipment in the V-2 rocket program” (Lundquist). He arrived in the United States at the GMDD-ABMA (Guided Missiles Development Division-Army Ballistic Missile Agency) in April of 1953 (Lundquist).

“In the February 1969 Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) Directory, [Wagner] is listed in the Astrionics Lab, Materials Division” (Lundquist). “In Huntsville, at AMBA and MSFC,” Wagner worked on the payloads of multiple historic projects, including Explorer 1, the first satellite launched by the United States, and the Apollo Telescope Mount, the crewed solar observatory of Skylab (Lundquist).

Wagner had patents “on a collapsible loop antenna system for satellites and on Separation devices” (Lundquist).

Wagner retired from the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1973 (Lundquist).

Sources

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

Extent

0.5 Linear foot (1 box)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Charles Lundquist, 2013.

Processing Information

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