he was a Deputy Director of Test Division at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. He died in Huntsville, Alabama. The Ilse and Bernhard Tessmann Music, and Foreign Language Scholarship, are awarded at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. References External links Bernhard Tessmann Collection, The University of Alabama in Huntsville Archives and Special Collections German aerospace engineers 1912 births 1998 deaths German emigrants to the United States German people of World War II Operation Paperclip Engineers from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania People from Zingst