Ludwig Roth

Ludwig Roth
Group photo with Ludwig Roth (open the image to use the imagemap)
Born	June 10, 1909(1909-06-10)[1] Groß-Gerau, Germany [2]
Died	November 10, 1967 (aged 58)^[1] Redondo Beach, United States [3]
Fields	Aerospace engineering
Institutions	1937-1945: HVP/HAP 1945-tbd: ABMA tbd-tbd: Douglas

Ludwig Roth was the Aerospace engineer who was the head of the Peenemünde Future Projects Office^[2]^[3] which designed the Wasserfall^[4] and created advanced rockets designs such as the A9/A10 ICBM.

Roth arrived in New York under Operation Paperclip on November 16, 1945 via the SS Argentina^[5] and served at Fort Bliss and Huntsville, Alabama.

[edit] Publications

Roth, Ludwig; Shempp, W. M. (1967). S-IVB High Energy Upper Stage and Its Development (html - citation), Douglas Paper no. 4040, Douglas Aircraft Corp.
Lindberg, R.G.; Lombar, C.F. & Roth, L. (March 28, 1962). The Influence of Man on the Design of Spacecraft (html - citation), NASA.

^ Obituary (html). Time Magazine (1967-11-10). Retrieved on 2008-06-12.
NOTE: The TIME claim that Roth was Chief designer of the V-l "buzz bombs" is inaccurate.
^ Dornberger, Walter [1952: V2--Der Schuss ins Weltall] (1954). V-2, translated by James Cleugh and Geoffrey Halliday, New York: Viking Press, p139. ISBN 0-553-12660-1 (1979 Bantam edition).
^ Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team, Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, p38.
^ Neufeld, Michael J (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press, p231. ISBN 0-02-922895-6.
^ S.S. Argentina Timeline (html). Moore-McCormack Lines Ocean Liners. Bill Vinson and Ginger Quering Casey. Retrieved on 2008-03-02.