Fritz Mueller

{{Short description|German engineer}}

{{see also | Fritz Müller (disambiguation)}}

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Dr. Fritz K. Mueller (1907 – 2001 Huntsville, Alabama, USA) was a German engineer.

Mueller was hired by Kreiselgeräte Company in 1930.{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/inventingaccurac00dona| url-access=registration| page=[https://archive.org/details/inventingaccurac00dona/page/52 52]| quote=fritz mueller guidance.| title=Inventing accuracy: a historical sociology of nuclear missile guidance | author=Donald A. MacKenzie| publisher=MIT Press| year= 1993| isbn= 978-0-262-63147-1 }} He developed the PIGA accelerometer.{{cite web|url=http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.history.war.world-war-ii/2006-04/msg00582.html|title=The Myth of V2 Inaccuracy and Ineffectiveness|publisher=newsgroups.derkeiler.com|accessdate=31 December 2015}} and worked on gyroscopes for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Later on, he worked on the guidance and control system for the A3 test rocket, the A5, and the A4 (V2) ballistic missile.{{cite book| url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JnoZTbVLx0MC| page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JnoZTbVLx0MC/page/n263 243]| quote=fritz mueller guidance.| title= Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicle| author= Roger E. Bilstein| publisher=DIANE Publishing| year= 1999| isbn= 978-0-7881-8186-3 }}

Under Project Paperclip, Mueller emigrated to the United States on 16 November 1945 with the Argentina group. There, he worked on developing guidance systems for the PGM-11 Redstone, PGM-19 Jupiter, MGM-31 Pershing, and the Saturn I missiles.{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=07hgJbzQrt0C&q=fritz+mueller+guidance&pg=PA250| title=Von Braun: Dreamer of Space, Engineer of War| author=Michael J. Neufeld| publisher=Random House, Inc.| year= 2008| isbn= 978-0-307-38937-4 }}

In 1960 Mueller left NASA for private industry.{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/astros/muefritz.htm|title=Mueller, Fritz|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|accessdate=31 December 2015|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100912071721/http://www.astronautix.com/astros/muefritz.htm|archivedate=12 September 2010}}