Professor Eugen Sänger founded the DLR site in Lampoldshausen in 1959
Professor Eugen Sänger founded the DLR site in Lampoldshausen in 1959
In 1954, Eugen Sänger, a leading scientist in space and rocket technology, returned to Germany from France to work in space research again. Sänger first founded the "Forschungsinstitut für Physik der Strahlantriebe" (FPS) in Stuttgart. For this institute, Sänger had been looking for a suitable location for a test site for liquid rocket propulsion systems since 1957 and found it near Heilbronn in the Harthäuser Forest.
