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| | Hermann Oberth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Oberth was born in the Transylvanian city that is now Sibiu, Romania, but was at that time Hermannstadt, Siebenbürgen, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire Oberth was, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the American Robert Goddard, one of the three founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics. |
 | | In 1938 the Oberth family moved back to Sibiu, which by that time was under German occupation. |
 | | Oberth was married at the age of 35 to Tilli Oberth (née Hummel), with whom he had four children, among them a son who died at the front during World War II and a daughter who also died during the war, in August 1944, in a workplace accident. |
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