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Walter Dornberger

1895 - 1980

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Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (6 September 1895 – 26 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Dornberger has received more than 322,025 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Walter Dornberger is the 55th most popular engineer (down from 50th in 2019), the 1,149th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,006th in 2019) and the 12th most popular German Engineer.

Walter Dornberger was a German engineer who was the head of the Nazi's rocket program. He was most famous for overseeing the production of the V-2 rocket, which was the first ballistic missile used in combat.

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Among engineers, Walter Dornberger ranks 55 out of 323. Before him are Charles George Gordon, Bjarne Stroustrup, Gustaf de Laval, Kurt Gerstein, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and Arthur Scherbius. After him are Colin Chapman, Kurt Tank, Marcello Gandini, Valentin Glushko, Lu Ban, and Masaru Ibuka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Walter Dornberger ranks 74. Before him are Robert Graves, Marcel Pagnol, Wilhelm Gustloff, B. H. Liddell Hart, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, and Lin Yutang. After him are Jean Giono, Kiril, Prince of Preslav, Jack Dempsey, Shote Galica, Clara Haskil, and Paul Muni. Among people deceased in 1980, Walter Dornberger ranks 50. Before him are Seretse Khama, Ludwig Guttmann, Lewis Milestone, Kim Jae-gyu, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, and Gustav Wagner. After him are Robert Whittaker, Mario Bava, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Ian Curtis, V. V. Giri, and Stanisława Walasiewicz.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Dornberger ranks 1,149 out of 6,142. Before him are William, Duke of Nassau (1792), John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg (1589), Johann Philipp Reis (1834), Gisela of Swabia (990), Charles De Coster (1827), and Karl August, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1757). After him are Georg von Hertling (1843), Franz Rosenzweig (1886), David Fabricius (1564), Alfred Weber (1868), Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1800), and Amalia of Oldenburg (1818).

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Among ENGINEERS In Germany

Among engineers born in Germany, Walter Dornberger ranks 12. Before him are August Horch (1868), Hugo Junkers (1859), Felix Wankel (1902), Ernst Heinkel (1888), Kurt Gerstein (1905), and Arthur Scherbius (1878). After him are Claude Dornier (1884), Erich Topp (1914), Christian Otto Mohr (1835), John A. Roebling (1806), Ferdinand Alexander Porsche (1935), and Franz Reuleaux (1829).

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