Rudolf Nebel was a spaceflight advocate active in Germany's amateur rocket group, the "Verein für Raumschiffahrt" (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") in the 1930s and in rebuilding German rocketry following World War II. Nebel was born in Weißenburg and trained as an engineer. Wikipedia
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