Wernher von Braun

Acting

15 Movies 5 TV Shows

Born

March 22, 1912

Died

June 16, 1977

Place of Birth

Wirsitz, Germany [now Wyrzysk, Poland]

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Biography

Werner Von Braun was a rocket pioneer and became the world's leading rocket scientist. Starting his career as a Nazi SS officer in the 1930s, and leading the team that developed what became the V-2 rocket, over 3,000 of which were eventually launched at England and Belgium during the later years of WWII. Following the war, Von Braun and 1600 other Nazi scientists were relocated to the United State…