Herman Potočnik

Herman Potočnik. Assuming that the initial "N" may have been intended to mean negation, the name would mean "without order". His father Jožef was born in 1841 in Razbor near Slovenj Gradec and at the time of Herman's birth he served as a doctor and high navy officer in the Austro-Hungarian Navy harbour of Pola. His mother Minka was born February 7 1854.