Professor Werner Dahm worked for five years at the secret lab at Peenemuende with Wernher von Braun on V-2 rockets, and then atoned for it by working for NASA for fifty.
Werner K. Dahm has died.
You may not have heard much about him that is unless you are a fan of German rocket scientists of the World War two era. That's right; Professor Werner K. Dahm worked at the secret lab at Peenemuende with Wernher von Braun on the V-1 and V-2 rockets. Born in Kaiser Wilhelm’s 1917 Imperial Germany during the final brutal phase of the Great War, Dahm grew up in a turbulent and defeated country. At age 24 he joined von Braun on his projects to make Hitler’s "vengeance weapons". When World War Two
ended with Dahm, von Braun, and a factory load of V2 missiles and plans in the hands of the Americans, they went to work for the US. First for the Army, and then after Sputnik made the US look foolish, for NASA.
Dahm continued his work in rocket design for another fifty years, finally retiring in 2006 at just before his 90th birthday. He passed away in a personal care home in Huntsville, home of the Redstone Arsenal aka "Rocket town-USA".
Which is fitting.
