Ernst Mohr

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Ernst Mohr (20 April 1910 – 16 May 1989) was a professor for mechanical engineering at the University of Wuppertal. He developed a meteorological rocket, the Mohr Rocket, on behalf of the German Rocket Society. The rocket was first launched successfully on September 14, 1958 near Cuxhaven.

At the first successful test the rocket proved it could reach heights of 50 kilometers and send out its payload at speeds of 1.2 km per second.

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• O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Ernst Mohr”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive 
• Encyclopedia Astronautica