Labels:text | document | font | paper | letter | black and white OCR: 1912 Born on March 23 in Wirsitz, Germany. 1923 Attends the French School in Berlin. 1928 Moves to the Herman Leitz School, Berlin. 1930 Becomes a student at the Technische Universität of Charlottenburg, Germany, and begins an apprenticeship in a locomotive factory. He becomes increasingly interested in space travel and joins The Society for Space Travel. 1931 Studies engineering at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. 1932 Returns to Germany where he is awarded a degree in engineering. He starts work for the German army conducting research on rockets. 1934 Awarded a PhD for his work on liquid-fuel rocket engines. 1935 Regularly tests rockets with his 80-strong team at Peenemünde, a new, purpose-built site on an island in the Baltic Sea, north of Berlin. 1936 Appoint ...
