# List of Germans relocated to the US via the Operation Paperclip

Operation Paperclip was a secret United States intelligence program in which more than 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians were taken from the former Nazi Germany to the U.S. for government employment after the end of World War II in Europe, between 1945 and 1959. Conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA), it was largely carried out by special agents of the U.S. Army's Counterintelligence Corps (CIC). Many of these Germans were former Nazi members and some worked with the leaders of the Nazi Party.

## Key recruits
### Aeronautics and rocketry

Many engineers had been involved with the V-2 in Peenemünde, and 127 of them eventually entered the U.S. through Operation Paperclip. They were also known as the Von Braun Group.
    Hans Amtmann
    Herbert Axster
    Erich Ball
    Oscar Bauschinger
    Hermann Beduerftig
    Rudi Beichel
    Anton Beier
    Herbert Bergeler
    Rudi Berndt, expert in parachute development
    Magnus von Braun
    Wernher von Braun
    Ernst Czerlinsky
    Theodor Buchhold [de]
    Walter Burose
    Adolf Busemann
    GN Constan
    Werner Dahm
    Konrad Dannenberg
    Kurt H. Debus
    Gerd De Beek
    Walter Dornberger – head of rocket programme
    Gerhard Drawe
    Friedrich Duerr
    Ernst R. G. Eckert
    Rudolph Edse [de]
    Otto Eisenhardt
    Krafft Arnold Ehricke
    Alfred Finzel
    Edward Fischel
    Karl Fleischer
    Anton Flettner
    Anselm Franz
    Herbert Fuhrmann
    Ernst Geissler
    Werner Gengelbach
    Dieter Grau
    Hans Gruene
    Herbert Guendel
    Fritz Haber
    Heinz Haber
    Karl Hager
    Guenther Haukohl
    Walter Häussermann
    Karl Heimburg
    Emil Hellebrand
    Gerhard B. Heller
    Bruno Helm
    Rudolf Hermann
    Bruno Heusinger
    Hans Hueter
    Guenther Hintze
    Sighard F. Hoerner
    Kurt Hohenemser
    Oscar Holderer
    Helmut Horn
    Hans Henning Hosenthien [de], Director of Flight Dynamics, Marshall Space Flight Center
    Dieter Huzel
    Walter Jacobi
    Erich Kaschig
    Ernst Klauss
    Theodore Knacke
    Siegfried Knemeyer
    Heinz-Hermann Koelle
    Gustav Kroll
    Willi Kuberg
    Werner Kuers
    Hermann Kurzweg
    Hermann Lange
    Hans Lindenberg
    Hans Lindenmayer
    Alexander Martin Lippisch – aeronautical engineer
    Robert Lusser
    Hans Maus
    Helmut Merk
    Joseph Michel
    Hans Milde
    Heinz Millinger
    Rudolf Minning
    William Mrazek
    Erich W. Neubert
    Hans von Ohain (designer of German jet engines)
    Robert Paetz
    Hans Palaoro
    Kurt Patt
    Hans Paul
    Fritz Pauli
    Arnold Peter
    Helmuth Pfaff
    Theodor Poppel
    Werner Rosinski
    Ludwig Roth
    Heinrich Rothe
    Friedrich von Saurma [de]
    Martin Schilling
    Helmut Schlitt
    Albert Schuler
    Walter Schwidetzky
    Ernst Steinhoff
    Wolfgang Steurer
    Heinrich Struck
    Ernst Stuhlinger
    Bernhard Tessmann
    Adolf Thiel
    Georg von Tiesenhausen
    Werner Tiller
    JG Tschinkel
    Arthur Urbanski
    Fritz Vandersee
    Richard Vogt
    Woldemar Voigt, designer of Messerschmitt P.1101
    Werner Voss
    Theodor Vowe
    Herbert A. Wagner
    Hermann Rudolf Wagner
    Hermann Weidner
    Walter Fritz Wiesemann
    Philipp Wolfgang Zettler-Seidel

### Architecture

    Heinz Hilten
    Hannes Luehrsen

### Electronics – including guidance systems, radar and satellites

    Wilhelm Angele [de]
    Ernst Baars [de]
    Josef Boehm
    Hans Fichtner
    Hans Friedrich
    Eduard Gerber
    Georg Goubau [de]
    Walter Haeussermann
    Otto Heinrich Hirschler [de]
    Otto Hoberg
    Rudolf Hoelker
    Hans Hollmann
    Helmut Hölzer
    Helmut Horn
    Wilhelm Jungert
    Horst Kedesdy
    Georg ("George") Emil Knausenberger
    Heinz-Hermann Koelle
    Max Kramer
    Hubert E. Kroh
    Hermann H. Kurzweg
    Kurt Lehovec
    Kurt Lindner
    Alexander Martin Lippisch
    JW Muehlner
    Fritz Mueller
    William Mrazek
    Hans R. Palaoro
    Johannes Plendl
    Fritz Karl Preikschat
    Eberhard Rees
    Gerhard Reisig
    Georg Rickhey
    Werner Rosinski
    Ludwig Roth
    Arthur Rudolph
    Walter Schwidetzky
    Harry Ruppe
    Friedrich von Saurma
    William August Schulze
    Heinz Schlicke
    Werner Sieber
    Othmar Stuetzer
    Albin Wittmann
    Hugo Woerdemann
    Albert Zeiler
    Hans K. Ziegler
    Helmut Zoike

### Material Science (high temperature)

    Werner Osenberg
    Klaus Scheufelen
    Rudolf Schlidt

### Medicine – including biological weapons, chemical weapons, and space medicine

    Theodor Benzinger [de]
    Kurt Blome
    Rudolf Brill
    Konrad Johannes Karl Büttner
    Paul Anton Cibis
    Fritz Laves
    Richard Lindenberg
    Ulrich Cameron Luft [de]
    Walter Schreiber
    Hubertus Strughold
    Hans Georg Clamann
    Erich Traub

### Physics

    Gunter Guttein
    Willibald Jentschke
    Gerhard Schwesinger
    Gottfried Wehner
    Helmut Weickmann
    Friedwardt Winterberg

### Chemistry and Chemical engineering

    Helmut Pichler
    Leonard Alberts
    Ernst Donath
    Josef Guymer
    Hans Schappert
    Max Josenhaus
    Kurt Bretschneider
    Erich Frese