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4 unusual facts about Gerhard Zucker


Gerhard Zucker

A movie based on Zucker's attempts with mail rockets at Scarp was made 2004, called The Rocket Post, starring Ulrich Thomsen as Zucker.

Seliger Forschungs- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH

In 1964, these experiments were discontinued with a temporary injunction, which is still valid today, after a fatal accident at a rocket demonstration by Gerhard Zucker at Braunlage, although Gerhard Zucker did not cooperate with the BSFEGmbH or the Hermann-Oberth-Gesellschaft e.V. in any way and also had a bad reputation with the members of these societies.

The Rocket Post

The arrival of German rocket scientist Gerhard Zucker is not initially welcomed by the inhabitants of the island.

The story is very loosely based on experiments in 1934 by the German inventor Gerhard Zucker to provide a postal service to the island of Scarp by rocket mail.



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