Kummersdorf is the name of an estate near Luckenwalde, around 25 km south of Berlin, in the Brandenburg region of Germany. Until 1945 Kummersdorf hosted the weapon office of the German Army which ran a development centre for future weapons as well as an artillery range.
Barracks ruins in Kummersdorf Gut in Brandenburg
Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket programme and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Centre. After the war, the US Nazi scientist recruitment programme Operation Paperclip saw him move to the US, largely avoiding punishment for involvement in war crimes, to work for some decades in high positions in aerospace, including for Bell Aircraft and Boeing.
Portrait of Major General Walter Dornberger taken during captivity, 1945
Dornberger (left) with Wernher von Braun (in civilian clothes) in Peenemünde, February 1941
Dornberger (on the left, with hat) together with von Braun, after their surrender to Allies in Austria, May 1945