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Rees, Eberhard Friedrich Michael
Rees
Rees
Credit: NASA
German-American engineer, von Braun's right hand man, in charge of manufacturing 1940-1969 for V-2, Redstone, Jupiter, and rockets stages for Saturn LVs that took America to the moon. Succeeded von Braun as Director at Huntsville 1970-1973.

Born: 1908-04-28. Died: 1998-04-02. Birth Place: Germany.

A graduate of the Dresden Institute of Technology, Rees began his career in rocketry in 1940 when he became technical plant manager of the German rocket center at Peenemuende. He came to the U.S. in 1945 with von Braun's rocket team and worked with von Braun at Fort Bliss, Texas, moving to Huntsville in 1950 when the Army transferred its rocket activities to the Redstone Arsenal. He served as Deputy Director of Development Operations at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency from 1956 to 1960. From 1960 he was Deputy Director for R&D, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. In 1970 he succeeded von Braun as Director of the Marshall Center. He retired in 1973 and died at Huntsville, Alabama.

Rees, described as von Braun's "right hand man", was in charge of V-2 manufacturing during World War II and took on the same role in the United States, culminating in supervision of development of the rockets stages for the Saturn V. Rees was described as "autocratic, demanding, technologically arrogant", "vitriolic" in his reports on subcontractor's development and production. One subcontractor manager described him as "a hard worker…but (with) an authoritarian, dictatorial style of management - 'the floggings will continue until the work improves'." - and this gentlemen actually liked him.



Country: Germany, USA. Bibliography: 1980, 4472, 535, 5923.
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ABMA, 1959. From left to right: Toftoy, Stuhlinger, Oberth, von Braun, Rees
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