Gerhard Zucker

Gerhard Zucker ( born November 22, 1908 in Hassel field; † 4 February 1985 in Düren ) was a German businessman and rocket engineers.

He dealt in 1931 with the problem of mail transport with rockets and this resulted in the Harz and 1933 in Cuxhaven corresponding experiments. However, they were unsuccessful and limited, at least in part to fraud, since only fireworks were provided with an impressive acting sleeve.

1934 emigrated sugar to England. A rocket demonstration against high representatives of the British Post Office on July 31, 1934 failed. He was deported for mail fraud and sent back to Germany, where he sat for a few years in prison. During the Second World War, Gerhard Zucker served until his injury in 1944 in the Air Force.

The end of the war saw sugar in his hometown Hasselfelde. He fled to the Lower Saxon part of the resin, where he worked as a furniture dealer. " Gerhard sugar, food " lived in 1954 in Schlich, community Langerwehe. He later moved to Düren.

He still led by rocket experiments. In a rocket demonstration on May 7, 1964 the Hasselkopf in Brown situation, there was an accident that took the lives of three people. This led to a ban on private rocket launches in Germany that led to the end of the held in Cuxhaven missile launching the Hermann Oberth Society and the Berthold Seliger Research and Development Company.

In the 1970s, Gerhard Zucker led again by a couple of races with rocket mail.