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Search Biographies:. Contact Us Privacy Policy Sitemap. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Hermann Oberth. Hermann Oberth Biography. Hermann Julius Oberth June 25, - December 28, was a German physicist and one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. The three were never active collaborators: instead, their parallel achievements occurred independently of one another.

By his own account and that of many others, around the age of 11 Oberth became fascinated with the field in which he was to make his mark through the writings of Jules Verne, especially From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, re-reading them to the point of memorization.

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Influenced by Verne's books and ideas, Oberth constructed his first model rocket as a school student of In his youthful experiments, he arrived independently at the concept of the multistage rocket, but lacked, at the time, the resources to pursue his idea on any but a theoretical level. In , Oberth undertook the study of medicine in Munich, participating afterwards in World War I as a military medic.

Oberth was later to say that the most thing he learned from that experience was that he did not want to become a doctor. After the war, he remained in Germany - his home city was now part of Romania - and resumed his studies at the university, but this time studying physics.