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Azure, a marine griffin Gules tailed Argent, armed and crowned Or.
D'azur, à un griffon mariné coupé de gueules sur argent,
couronné d'or.
Casque couronné. [Rietstap]
Jesco v. Puttkamer was born in Leipzig (Germany) on September 22, 1933. He belongs to an ancient noble family whose recorded ancestry can be traced back to 1257-1260. His family lived in Switzerland during WWII. He studied mechanical engineering in Konstanz and graduated from the Technical University of Aachen with a Master's degree.
Von Puttkamer emmigrated to the United States in 1961 to join Wernher von Braun's rocket development team in Huntsville, Alabama. He was granted US citizenship in 1967. He moved to NASA Headquarters in 1974 and has served as Program Manager of Space Industrialization and Integrated Long-Range Planning Studies.
Jesco von Puttkamer received an honorary doctorate from the University of Saarbrücken in 1995. He was named Distinguished German-American of the Year in 2008.
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