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Helmut Hoelzer | |
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Helmut Hölzer | |
Born | |
Died | October 12, 1996
Huntsville, Alabama, United States | (aged 84)
Alma mater | Technische Hochschule Darmstadt |
Known for | Designing an electronic simulator for the V-2 rocket control system. [3] [4] |
Awards | Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1963) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical Engineering, [1] Applied mathematics |
Institutions | 1933-tbd: teaching 1939:
Telefunken (Berlin) |
Helmut Hoelzer [5] was a Nazi Germany V-2 rocket engineer who was brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip. Hoelzer was the inventor and constructor of the world's first electronic analog computer. [6]
In October 1939, while working for the Telefunken electronics firm in Berlin, Hoelzer met with Ernst Steinhoff, [7] Hermann Steuding, and Wernher von Braun regarding guide beams for a flying body. [Neufeld 1] In late 1940 at Peenemünde, Hoelzer was head of the guide beam division [Neufeld 2] (assistant Henry Otto Hirschler [8]), 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 ( German: Mischgerät) [9] which corrected for momentum that would perturb an object that had been moved back on-track. [Neufeld 3] By the fall of 1941, Hoelzer's "mixing device" was used to provide V-2 rocket rate measurement instead of rate gyros. [Neufeld 4]
Then at the beginning of 1942, Hoelzer built an analog computer to calculate and simulate [8] [10] [11] V-2 rocket trajectories [Neufeld 5] [12] Hoelzer's team also developed the Messina telemetry system. [1] After evacuating Peenemünde for the Alpenfestung (Alpine Fortress), Hoelzer returned to Peenemünde via motorcycle to look for portions of his PhD dissertation [5] prior to surrendering to United States forces at the end of World War II.
Hoelzer was a student of Alwin Walther. [6]
One of his grandchildren is Olympic swimmer Margaret Hoelzer.
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Helmut Hoelzer | |
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Helmut Hölzer | |
Born | |
Died | October 12, 1996
Huntsville, Alabama, United States | (aged 84)
Alma mater | Technische Hochschule Darmstadt |
Known for | Designing an electronic simulator for the V-2 rocket control system. [3] [4] |
Awards | Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize (1963) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Electrical Engineering, [1] Applied mathematics |
Institutions | 1933-tbd: teaching 1939:
Telefunken (Berlin) |
Helmut Hoelzer [5] was a Nazi Germany V-2 rocket engineer who was brought to the United States under Operation Paperclip. Hoelzer was the inventor and constructor of the world's first electronic analog computer. [6]
In October 1939, while working for the Telefunken electronics firm in Berlin, Hoelzer met with Ernst Steinhoff, [7] Hermann Steuding, and Wernher von Braun regarding guide beams for a flying body. [Neufeld 1] In late 1940 at Peenemünde, Hoelzer was head of the guide beam division [Neufeld 2] (assistant Henry Otto Hirschler [8]), 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 ( German: Mischgerät) [9] which corrected for momentum that would perturb an object that had been moved back on-track. [Neufeld 3] By the fall of 1941, Hoelzer's "mixing device" was used to provide V-2 rocket rate measurement instead of rate gyros. [Neufeld 4]
Then at the beginning of 1942, Hoelzer built an analog computer to calculate and simulate [8] [10] [11] V-2 rocket trajectories [Neufeld 5] [12] Hoelzer's team also developed the Messina telemetry system. [1] After evacuating Peenemünde for the Alpenfestung (Alpine Fortress), Hoelzer returned to Peenemünde via motorcycle to look for portions of his PhD dissertation [5] prior to surrendering to United States forces at the end of World War II.
Hoelzer was a student of Alwin Walther. [6]
One of his grandchildren is Olympic swimmer Margaret Hoelzer.