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.
Kentin diğer ünlü hemşehrisi ise, Rus Konstantin Çiolkovski ile Amerikalı Robert Goddard ile birlikte roket bilim ve modern astronotiğin üç kurucu babasından biri olan Hermann Julius Oberth (1894- 1989).