Karl Heinrich Emil Becker
Military Person
1879 – 1940
Who was Karl Heinrich Emil Becker?
Karl Heinrich Emil Becker was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. He was the head of the Army Ordnance Office, Senator of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, first president of the Reich Research Council, the first general officer to be a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences, as well as being a professor at both the University of Berlin and the Berlin Technical University. He was an early and key supporter of the development of ballistic rockets as weapons. The military-scientific infrastructure he helped implement supported the German nuclear energy program, known as the Uranium Club. Being depressed over heavy criticism from Hitler for shortfalls in munitions production, he committed suicide in 1940. He was given a State funeral.
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- Born
- Sep 14, 1879
Speyer - Also known as
- Karl Becker
- Nationality
- Germany
- Lived in
- Speyer
- Died
- Apr 8, 1940
Berlin
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on July 23, 2013
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