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Bust of Hermann Oberth

Bust of Hermann Oberth

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Bust of Hermann Oberth

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

August 26, 2025

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When Hermann Oberth was named an honorary member of the "Association for Space Travel" in Breslau in 1927, the flight of Sputnik was still three decades away. But the Transylvanian …

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Sabine B 🇺🇦

November 7, 2023

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Hermann Oberth, the famous but also controversial mathematician, physicist and space technology researcher, was born in Sibiu and attended the mountain school in Sighisoara. Among other things, he is the inventor of the space mirror. There are stories about him in Sighisoara that show him as a particularly talented mathematician and an absent-minded professor with strange ideas about rockets in space.
Oberth's bust on Oberth Square below the Hour Tower was created by the Transylvanian-Saxon and Sighisoara artist Wilhelm Fabini.

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