What is Hans Mark?
[[File:Hans Mark - 1998.JPEG|thumb|Hans Mark]] '''Hans Michael Mark''' (June 17, 1929 &ndash; December 18, 2021) was a [[German people|German]]-born [[Americans|American]] [[physicist]] and politician. He was the [[United States Secretary of the Air Force|Secretary of the Air Force]] between 1979 until 1981. He was the [[Leadership of the National Reconnaissance Office|Director of the National Reconnaissance Office]] between 1977 until 1979. Mark was born in [[Mannheim]], [[Germany]]. Because he was partly of [[Jewish]] descent his father [[Herman Francis Mark]] fled with the family into the United States. Mark died on December 18, 2021 in [[Austin, Texas]] from [[dementia]]-related problems at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Michael |title=Hans Mark, former secretary of Air Force and NASA deputy who fled Nazis, dies at 92 |url=https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2021-12-19/hans-mark-former-secretary-air-force-nasa-deputy-dies-4026983.html |access-date=19 December 2021 |publisher=Stripes |date=19 December 2021}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *[http://www.engr.utexas.edu/faculty/bios/mark.cfm University of Texas biography] *[http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Biographies/mark.html NASA biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924042428/http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/Biographies/mark.html |date=2015-09-24 }} {{NASAadmin}} {{USSecAirForce}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Mark, Hans}} [[Category:1929 births]] [[Category:2021 deaths]] [[Category:Administrators of NASA]] [[Category:Academics from Texas]] [[Category:American physicists]] [[Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States]] [[Category:Refugees from Nazism]] [[Category:United States Secretaries of the Air Force]] [[Category:University of California faculty]] {{US-bio-stub}}