13 Facts About Walter Hohmann

Walter Hohmann studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Munich, graduating in 1904.

Walter Hohmann then worked for the municipal councils of Vienna, Hanover and Breslau before settling in Essen, where he eventually held the post of chief architect.

Walter Hohmann became interested in space as a young boy when his father would show him the southern constellations.

Walter Hohmann soon began to fill up most of his free time with the study of astronomy, and started seriously considering the problem of interplanetary spaceflight.

Walter Hohmann published his findings in Die Erreichbarkeit der Himmelskorper.

The importance of this work saw Walter Hohmann become a leading figure in Germany's amateur rocketry movement in the late 1920s, the Verein fur Raumschiffahrt.

Writer Willy Ley asked Walter Hohmann to contribute to an anthology of papers on spaceflight, "Die Moglichkeit der Weltraumfahrt", published in 1928.

Walter Hohmann contributed a post about "Fahrtrouten, Fahrzeiten und Landungsmoglichkeiten" where he proposed using a separable landing module to travel to the Moon, an idea that was later utilized in the Apollo lunar missions.

Walter Hohmann died in an Essen hospital shortly before the end of World War II as a result of stress experienced during the intense Allied bombing of the city.

Walter Hohmann was born as the son of a doctor and visited the high-school in Wurzburg, where he graduated In 1900.

Walter Hohmann studied engineering at the technical university in Munich and worked from 1904 as an engineer for structural analysis in Vienna, Berlin, Hanover and Wroclaw.

Walter Hohmann developed basic principles and created advanced tools necessary for the conquest of space.

Walter Hohmann's ideas were taken up for the Apollo program and the Voyager spacecraft.