Tags: Military Structure.
The Peenemünde Army Research Center (German: Heeresversuchsanstalt Peenemünde HVP) was founded in 1937 as one of five military proving grounds under the German Army Weapons Office (Heeres Waffenamt). It is widely regarded as the birthplace of modern rocketry and spaceflight.On April 2 1936 the Reich Air Ministry paid 750000 reichsmarks to the town of Wolgast for the whole Northern peninsula of the Baltic island of Usedom.
