Hermann Oberth Autographs

Hermann Julius Oberth (German: ; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Robert H. Goddard and Herman Potočnik (also known under the pseudonym Hermann Noordung). Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross (1st Class) in 1943.
Oberth was born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Nagyszeben (Hermannstadt), Kingdom of Hungary (today Sibiu in Romania); and besides his native German, he was fluent in Hungarian and Romanian as well. At the age of 11, Oberth's interest in rocketry was sparked by the novels of Jules Verne, especially From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. He was fond of reading them over and over until they were engraved in his memory. As a result, Oberth constructed his first model rocket as a school student at the age of 14. In his youthful experiments, he arrived independently at the concept of the multistage rocket. During this time, however, he lacked the resources to put his ideas into practice.
In 1912, Oberth began studying medicine in Munich, Germany, but after World War I broke out, he was drafted into the Imperial German Army, assigned to an infantry battalion, and sent to the Eastern Front against Russia. In 1915, Oberth was moved into a medical unit at a hospital in Segesvár (German: Schäßburg; Romanian: Sighișoara), Transylvania, in Austria-Hungary (today Romania). There he found the spare time to conduct a series of experiments concerning weightlessness, and later resumed his rocketry designs. By 1917, he showed designs of a missile using liquid propellant with a range of 290 km (180 mi) to Hermann von Stein, the Prussian Minister of War.
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Traded items with a signature of Hermann Oberth

The most expensive item with a signature of Hermann Oberth (Hermann Oberth: Wege Zur Raumschiffahrt Ways to Spaceship Signed by The Author) was sold in February 2025 for $499.00 while the cheapest item (Hermann Oberth rocket pioneer genuine signed index card) found a new owner for $2.00 in March 2019. The month with the most items sold (3) was June 2012 with an average selling price of $10.75 for an autographed item of Hermann Oberth. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in August 2012 with $249.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $3.25 was July 2013. In average, an autographed item from Hermann Oberth is worth $24.95.

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Picture	Item Title	Price	Store
	1954-1969 Hermann OBERTH: German “FATHER” of ROCKETRY & Spaceflight, 2 SIGNED	$49.50
	1957 Man into Space Hermann Oberth w/Astronaut Charles Duke’s Signed Bookplate	$103.50
	Hermann Oberth - German Physicist and Engineer - Autographed Check, 1982	$10.50
	Hermann Oberth - German Physicist and Engineer - Autographed Photocopy Page	$16.01
	Hermann Oberth - German Physicist and Engineer - Autographed Photocopy Page	$18.03
	Hermann Oberth - German Physicist and Engineer - Autographed Photocopy Page	$29.00
	Hermann Oberth signed 2-1/2x 3-1/2 card BAS Authenticated Astronautics Rockets	$69.95
	Hermann Oberth Signed Cover (Bolivia ) Famed Space Scientist Mentored VonBraun	$15.50
	Hermann Oberth signed cover a Founding Father of Astronautics	$24.95
	Hermann Oberth signed cover a Founding Father of Astronautics	$24.95
	Hermann Oberth signed cover a Founding Father of Astronautics	$24.95
	Hermann Oberth signed postcard a Founding Father of Astronautics	$24.95
	Rocket pioneer Hermann Oberth hand signed 8x10 print - 9677	$23.05
	Rocket pioneers Albert Puellenberg + Hermann Oberth signed cover - 6846	$43.00
	Rocketpioneer Hermann Oberth hand signed portrait card - 8116	$15.50