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
 
 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
 
 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 
 , 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
 
 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

  
 
 Josef Boehm 
 Hans Fichtner
 Hans Friedrich
 Eduard Gerber
 
 Walter Haeussermann
 
 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

 
 Kurt Blome 
 Rudolf Brill
 Konrad Johannes Karl Büttner
 Paul Anton Cibis
 Fritz Laves
 Richard Lindenberg
 
 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

See also
 Allied plans for German industry after World War II
 German influence on the Soviet space program
 Operation Osoaviakhim, USSR operation on German specialists
 List of Germans transported to the USSR via the Operation Osoaviakhim

Further reading

References 

Operation Paperclip
Brain drain
Aftermath of World War II in the United States
Allied occupation of Germany
Cold War history of the United States
German-American history
German technology-related lists
Office of Strategic Services
Science and technology during World War II
Science in Nazi Germany
United States intelligence operations
World War II operations and battles of Europe
Wernher von Braun
American secret government programs
 
German rocket scientists in the United States
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Marshall Space Flight Center
NASA people