Verein für Raumschiffahrt
| Founded | June 5, 1927 in Breslau |
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| Founder |
Johannes Winkler, with |
| Dissolved | Jan 1934 |
| Type | Professional Organization |
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Members
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approx. 500, including Space Hall of Fame inductees: |
| Periodical Die Rakete (English: The Rocket). | |
Johannes Winkler, with
Max Valier and
approx. 500, including Space Hall of Fame inductees:
Winkler, Johannes (President)
Ley, Willy (Vice President)
Braun, Wernher von
Hohmann, Walter
Oberth, Hermann
Riedel, Klaus
The Verein für Raumschiffahrt ("VfR", English: Society for Space Travel) was a German amateur rocket association prior to World War II that included members outside Germany. The first successful VfR test firing with liquid fuel (five minutes) was at the Heylandt Works on January 25, 1930; and additional rocket experiments were conducted at a farm near Bernstadt, Saxony.
Space travel and rocketry gained popularity in Germany, following the June 1923 publication of the book Die Rakete zu den Planetenräumen (English: The Rocket into Planetary Space) and the expanded 1929 work Wege zur Raumschiffahrt (Ways to Spaceflight).
The VfR was founded in 1927 by Johannes Winkler, with Max Valier and Willy Ley following participation as expert advisers for Fritz Lang's early science fiction film Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon). Ley and Oberth had hoped to receive funding from Lang for a real life experimental rocket launch coinciding with the movie's premiere. Valier had assisted in Fritz von Opel's rocket-powered publicity stunts for the Opel company.
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