Wernher Von Braun Biography

Dr. Blackwell

Physics

12/18/2017

Though Wernher Von Braun was a scientist to one of the deadliest regimes in history, he was not a bad guy. “They (evolutionists) challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? They say they cannot visualize a Designer. Well, can a physicist visualize an electron? What strange rationale makes some physicists accept the inconceivable electron as real while refusing to accept the reality of a Designer on the grounds that they cannot conceive him?

Von Braun was Lutheran, which was very common in Germany since Lutheranism started in Germany. But what made it odd for him to have faith too? Well, he was a scientist, and most all of scientists are atheists because of various reasons due to science and are motivated to research anything to prove God’s existence, and that’s how they get into science in the first place. Von Braun wasn’t swayed by science because to him there wasn’t any sense into it.

Von Braun enrolled at the Berlin Institute of Technology in the late 1920s, and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 1932. He then enrolled at the University of Berlin to study physics. While completing his graduate studies, von Braun conducted in-depth research on rocketry, for which he received a grant from the Ordnance Department of Germany. The grant financed von Braun’s research at a research station not far from Berlin, next to the solid-fuel rocket facility of then-Captain Walter Dornberger, a department head for the Ordnance Department’s armed forces. In 1934, he obtained a doctorate degree in physics from the University of Berlin. That same year, von Braun led a group that successfully launched two liquid-fueled rockets more than 1.5 miles.

Von Braun to a new facility in the early 1940s in Peenem?nde, a village in northeastern Germany, he worked with Dornberger and the rest of his crew to again successfully launch rockets, as well as develop the supersonic anti-aircraft missile Wasserfall and the ballistic missile A-4. The A-4 became known as the “V-2,” meaning “Vengeance Weapon 2.” Adolf Hitler soon became interested in using the V-2 for military purposes, and when von Braun refused to cooperate with Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler’s attempted takeover of the V-2 project, he was imprisoned on espionage charges. Not long after, however, Hitler personally released von Braun. Despite never receiving approval from von Braun, German forces deployed the V-2 flying bomb against Britain in 1944.

In 1945, von Braun—as well as his brother, Magnus, and von Braun’s entire rocketry team—surrendered willingly to American troops. Signing a one-year contract with the U.S. Army, von Braun was flown to America, where he eventually became technical director of the U.S. Army Ordnance Guided Missile Project in Alabama in 1952.

Works Cited

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