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Gerhard Zucker (* 1900 in Hasselfelde, † 1985) was a German business man and rocket enginner.
Gerhard Zucker began in 1931 to work at the problem of transporting mail by rockets and made therefore in 1933 some experiments in the Harz and at Cuxhaven. Because he did not want to cooperate with the Nazis he emigrated to Great Britain in 1934.
After a failured rocket demonstration for high staff of British mail on July 31st, 1934 he was sent back again to Germany, where he was for some years in prison. In World War II he was recruited to the German Air Force.
After World War II he moved to the part of the Harz, which belongs to Lower Saxonia, where he was a furniture dealer. He still made rocket experiments. At a rocket demonstration on May 7th, 1964 on the Hasselkopf Mountain near Braunlage n accident happened, at which three people were killed. This accident was a good reason to stop the rocket experiments of the Hermann Oberth Society and the Berhold Seliger Research and Development Society, because one feared that there could be military rockets developed under the covery of civil engineering.
In the seventies Gerhard Zucker launched again mail rockets.
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