Helmut Hölzer
Encyclopedia
Helmut Hoelzer was a Nazi Germany
V-2 rocket
engineer who was brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip
.
electronics firm in Berlin, Hoelzer met with Ernst Steinhoff
, Hermann Steuding, and Wernher von Braun
regarding guide beams for a flying body.p. 107 In late 1940 at Peenemünde
, Hoelzer was head of the guide beam divisionp. 140 (assistant Henry Otto Hirschler), which developed a guide-plane system which alternates a transmitted signal from two antennas a short distance apart, as well as a vacuum tube mixing device which corrected for momentum that would perturb an object that had been moved back on-track.p. 104 By the Fall of 1941, Hoelzer's "mixing device" was used to provide V-2 rocket
rate measurement instead of rate gyros.p. 106
Then at the beginning of 1942, Hoelzer built an analog computer
to calculate and simulate V-2 rocket
trajectoriesp. 106 Hoelzer's team also developed the Messina telemetry system. After evacuating Peenemünde for the Alpenfestung (Alpine Fortress), Hoelzer returned to Peenemünde
via motorcycle to look for portions of his PhD dissertation prior to surrendering to United States forces at the end of World War II
.
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket
The V-2 rocket , technical name Aggregat-4 , was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known...
engineer who was brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip
Operation Paperclip
Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States in the aftermath of World War II...
.
Life
In October 1939, while working for the TelefunkenTelefunken
Telefunken is a German radio and television apparatus company, founded in Berlin in 1903, as a joint venture of Siemens & Halske and the Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft...
electronics firm in Berlin, Hoelzer met with Ernst Steinhoff
Ernst Steinhoff
Ernst August Wilhelm Steinhoff was a rocket scientist and member of the "von Braun rocket group", at Peenemünde . He was among the scientists to surrender and travel to the United States to provide rocketry expertise via Operation Paperclip. He came to the United States on the first boat,...
, Hermann Steuding, and Wernher von Braun
Wernher von Braun
Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German rocket scientist, aerospace engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Nazi Germany during World War II and in the United States after that.A former member of the Nazi party,...
regarding guide beams for a flying body.p. 107 In late 1940 at Peenemünde
Peenemünde
The Peenemünde Army Research Center was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the Army Weapons Office ....
, Hoelzer was head of the guide beam divisionp. 140 (assistant Henry Otto Hirschler), which developed a guide-plane system which alternates a transmitted signal from two antennas a short distance apart, as well as a vacuum tube mixing device which corrected for momentum that would perturb an object that had been moved back on-track.p. 104 By the Fall of 1941, Hoelzer's "mixing device" was used to provide V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket
The V-2 rocket , technical name Aggregat-4 , was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known...
rate measurement instead of rate gyros.p. 106
Then at the beginning of 1942, Hoelzer built an analog computer
Analog computer
An analog computer is a form of computer that uses the continuously-changeable aspects of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities to model the problem being solved...
to calculate and simulate V-2 rocket
V-2 rocket
The V-2 rocket , technical name Aggregat-4 , was a ballistic missile that was developed at the beginning of the Second World War in Germany, specifically targeted at London and later Antwerp. The liquid-propellant rocket was the world's first long-range combat-ballistic missile and first known...
trajectoriesp. 106 Hoelzer's team also developed the Messina telemetry system. After evacuating Peenemünde for the Alpenfestung (Alpine Fortress), Hoelzer returned to Peenemünde
Peenemünde
The Peenemünde Army Research Center was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the Army Weapons Office ....
via motorcycle to look for portions of his PhD dissertation prior to surrendering to United States forces at the end of World War II
Operation Paperclip
Operation Paperclip was the Office of Strategic Services program used to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany for employment by the United States in the aftermath of World War II...
.