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==HVP organization== Major-General [[Walter Dornberger]] was the military leader of the V-2 rocket programme and other projects. [[Wernher von Braun]] was the HVP technical director (Dr. [[Walter Thiel]] was deputy director until 1943) and there were nine major departments:<ref name="Ordway" />{{Rp|38}} # Technical Design Office ([[Walter Riedel|Walter J H "Papa" Riedel]]) # Aeroballistics and Mathematics Laboratory (Dr. Hermann Steuding) # Wind Tunnel (Dr. Rudolf Hermann) # Materials Laboratory (Dr. Mäder) # Flight, Guidance, and Telemetering Devices (German: BSM) (Dr. [[Ernst Steinhoff]]<ref name="Huzel">{{cite book |last=Huzel |first=Dieter K. |title=Peenemünde to Canaveral |year=1960 |publisher=Prentice Hall |page=37 }}</ref> and his deputy [[Helmut Gröttrup]]) # Development and Fabrication Laboratory ([[Arthur Rudolph]]) # Test Laboratory ([[Klaus Riedel]]) # Future Projects Office ([[Ludwig Roth]])<ref name="NASM">{{cite web |title=Dahm, Werner Karl |url=http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/peenintro.html |work=Peenemünde Interviews |publisher=[[National Air and Space Museum]] |access-date=October 23, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031017021631/http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/peenintro.html |archive-date=October 17, 2003 }}</ref> #Purchasing Office (Mr. Genthe) The '''Measurements Group''' ([[Gerhard Reisig]]) was part of the BSM,<ref name="McCleskey">{{cite web |last=McCleskey |first=C. |author2=D. Christensen |title=Dr. Kurt H. Debus: Launching a Vision |url=http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/docs/pdf/debus.pdf |access-date=October 23, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080917103545/http://www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov/history/docs/pdf/debus.pdf |archive-date=September 17, 2008 |publisher=NASA }}</ref> and additional departments included the Production Planning Directorate (Detmar Stahlknecht),<ref name="Neufeld" />{{Rp|161}} the Personnel Office (Richard Sundermeyer), and the Drawings Change Service.<ref>Huzel. pp 149, 225</ref> [[Erich Apel]] was head of a development department, [[Konrad Dannenberg]] was Walter Riedel's deputy, [[Kurt H. Debus]] was engineer in charge at [[Test Stand VII]], and [[Eberhard Rees]] managed V-2 rocket fabrication and assembly.
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