Ernst Mohr was a professor for mechanical engineering at the University of Wuppertal. It developed a meteorologicalrocket on behalf of the German Rocket Society. The rocket was first launched successfully on September 14, 1958 near Cuxhaven.
Engineer ErnstMohr of Wuppertal, under the auspices of the German Rocket Society, developed a sounding rocket that was designed to reach altitudes of 50 km.
The rocket had 50 kg of propellant, produced 5 tonnes thrust, and was to have reached Mach 1.5 at burnout and an altitude of 20,000 m.
The redesigned Mohrrockets were 2.5 m long, 30 cm in diameter, had a total mass of 80 kg and produced 7.8 tonnes thrust.
ErnstMohr attended school in Göppingen, then studied mathematics and physics at the University of Tübingen and the University of Munich where he was taught by Carathéodory, Perron and Tietze.
Mohr tried to arrange things so that he might become Hasse's assistant and at the same time there were others at Göttingen who objected to Hasse's appointment on political grounds.
Mohr admitted only to listening to broadcasts by the BBC and argued in his defence that his research work was extremely valuable to the war effort, particularly to the German air force.
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