The town's other famous inhabitant was Hermann Julius Oberth (1894- 1989), one of the three founding fathers of rocketry and modern astronautics, along with the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the American Robert Goddard.
Banori tjetër i famshëm i qytetit ishte Herman Julius Oberth (1894- 1989), një nga tre baballarët themelues të raketave dhe astronautikës moderne, së bashku me rusin Konstandin Ciollkovski dhe amerikanin Robert Godard.