Background
Huzel, Dieter Karl was born on June 3, 1912 in Essen, Germany. Came to the United States, 1946. Son of Alfred Emil and Frieda (Garbe) Huzel.
(Dieter Huzel was an electronic engineer with his whole ca...)
Dieter Huzel was an electronic engineer with his whole career ahead of him when Germany lurched into the Second World War, he was conscripted and destined for the Russian Front when fate intervened. He and many other scientists were re-assigned from combat duty to the top secret installation at Peenemünde Island off the Baltic coast as part of the Nazi search for “Wonder Weapons”. Huzel describes how he became an integral part of the V weapon program which, despite the frequent Allied bombings, produced the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets that rained down on liberated parts of Europe during the later years of the war. As the tide turned against the Nazi regime, Huzel tells of the shifts in production of these weapons to central Germany and his team’s rising fear that the rocket technology would fall into the hands of the Russians. However, Huzel and his team were captured by the West and offered re-location to Britain or America. Huzel and his former director, Werner Von Braun, opted for America where they would become part of the ground-breaking Rocketdyne research team and spearhead of the NASA push for space exploration.
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Huzel, Dieter Karl was born on June 3, 1912 in Essen, Germany. Came to the United States, 1946. Son of Alfred Emil and Frieda (Garbe) Huzel.
Diploma engineering, T.U., Stuttgart, Germany, 1937.
Project engineer, Siemens-Schuckertwerke, Berlin, 1937-1942; manager V-2 launch facility, Electro-Mech. Werke, Peenemuende, Germany, 1943-1944; technical assistant to Doctor W. v.Braun, Electro-Mech. Werke, Peenemuende, Germany, 1944-1945; project engineer, United States Army Reserve and Development Division, Fort Bliss, 1946-1950; supervisor, Rocketdyne division Redstone Engine Development, North America Aviation, Canoga Park, California, 1950-1961; assistant chief engineer, Sturn S-II, Space division Rockwell International, 1961-1975; project engineer advanced projects, Rocketdyne division Rockwell International, Canoga Park, 1975-1976; retired, Rocketdyne division Rockwell International, Canoga Park, 1976.
(Dieter Huzel was an electronic engineer with his whole ca...)
Volunteer Boyscouts. Fellow American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate).
Married Irmgard Klebba, November 3, 1945.