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Guide to the Deutsches Raketen- und Raumfahrt Museum e. V. Records, 1942-1969 M0718
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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: Deutsches Raketen- und Raumfahrt Museum e. V. Records
Identifier/Call Number: M0718
Physical Description:
4.25 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1942-1969
Abstract: The collection includes correspondence, essays, financial records, official reports, designs and other illustrations. Also
included are papers concerning the earlier Gesellschaft für Weltraumforschung as well as personal papers of Alfred Fritz dating
from the late 1940s.
Language of Material:
English
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Collection Scope and Content Summary
The collection primarily conains correspondence conducted worldwide concerning the planned museum. Almost all correspondence
involves Alfred Fritz, the museum's founder, managing director, and preeminent figure. The correspondence concerns such matters
as conference and membership in various space- and rocket- societies. Other materials include essays, financial records, handwritten
manuscripts, and official reports, designs, and illustrations. Also included are papers concerning the earlier Gesellschaft
für Weltraumforschung as well as handwritten manuscripts and other personal effects of Alfred Fritz dating from the early
1940's. The collection is of value to those interested in the reception and development of post-war German research in space-travel.
The collection includes papers and illustrations concerning the planned Deutsches Raketen- und Raumfahrtmuseum e.V. The museum
was intended to gather and display technical and literary materials (both historical and contemporary) relevent to studies
in astronautics. It was also intended to promote such studies through educational programs on both the contemporary state
of rocket-technology and the early stages of space travel. The attempt to establish a permanent museum in Stuttgart extended
from 1954 to the early 1960's. The museum was to have been an outgrowth of the Gesellschaft fur Weltraumforschung, founded
in Stuttgart in 1948. Both the museum and its predecessor were members of the International Astroautical Federation. Among
the museum's holdings were an A-4 rocket (v-2), the rocket chamber and gas chamber of the "Veronique," a nose cone and instrumentation
of an "Äerobee," as well as post-war technical, scientific, and rocket-related literature by Stoelzel, Mohr, the Deutsche
Raketengesellschaft für Raketentechnik und Raumfahrt. During the late 1950's and the early 1960's the museum held at least
12 exhibitions. The museum also cooperated with Columbia-Morningside in the filming of the Wernher von Braun Story.
Deutsches Raketen- und Raumfahrt Museum e. V. Records. M0718. Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries,
Stanford, Calif.
Purchased, 1994
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Science -- History -- Germany.
Rocketry.
Aeronautics.
Space ships.