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Active 1929–present · Awards: Bavarian Order of Merit, Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Rudolf-Diesel-Medaille, Wilhelm Exner Medal, Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Berlin, Prix d'Astronautique, Honorary doctor of the Technical University of Graz, International Space Hall of Fame
Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross in 1943.