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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1937-02-13 (88 years old)

Place of Birth

Morgenröthe-Rautenkranz, Saxony, German Reich

Sigmund Jähn

Biography:

Sigmund Werner Paul Jähn (13 February 1937 – 21 September 2019) was a German cosmonaut and pilot who in 1978 became the first German to fly into space as part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos programme.

Known For

Acting

2020

2017

Sigmund Jähn - Der erste Deutsche im All as Self - Interviewee and Portrait Subject

2010

2004

Vorhang auf as Self

1998

1995

1980

Interkosmos as Self

1978

1970

Keiner wird als Held geboren as Self (archive footage)

1963

Zur Person as Self

1952

Tagesschau as Self