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.
Drugi poznati stanovnik grada bio je Herman Julius Obert (1894- 1989), koji se zajedno sa Rusom Konstantinom Tsolkovskim i Amerikancem Robertom Godardom, smatra osnivačem raketne tehnike i moderne astronautike.