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(1967-11-10) (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.

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References and notes

  1. ^ "Obituary". Time Magazine. 1967-11-10. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837551,00.html?promoid=googlep. Retrieved 2008-06-12. 
    NOTE: The TIME claim that Roth was Chief designer of the V-l "buzz bombs" is inaccurate.
  2. ^ Dornberger, Walter (1954) [1952: V2--Der Schuss ins Weltall]. V-2. translated by James Cleugh and Geoffrey Halliday. New York: Viking Press. pp. p139. ISBN 0-553-12660-1 (1979 Bantam edition). 
  3. ^ Ordway, Frederick I, III; Sharpe, Mitchell R (1979). The Rocket Team. Apogee Books Space Series 36. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell. pp. p38. 
  4. ^ Neufeld, Michael J (1995). The Rocket and the Reich: Peenemünde and the Coming of the Ballistic Missile Era. New York: The Free Press. pp. p231. ISBN 0-02-922895-6. 
  5. ^ "S.S. Argentina Timeline". Moore-McCormack Lines Ocean Liners. Bill Vinson and Ginger Quering Casey. http://moore-mccormack.com/SS-Argentina-1938/SS-Argentina-1938-Timeline.htm. Retrieved 2008-03-02.