Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1910, Sept. 14 | Born, Bremen, Germany |
| 1917 | Emigrated to the United States |
| 1923 | Naturalized United States citizen |
| 1931 | B.S., Texas A & M University, College Station, Tex. |
| 1931-1932 | Field artillery, Army Organized Reserve Corps |
| 1932-1933 | Flight training, Randolph Field and Kelly Field, Tex. |
| circa 1933 | Bomber pilot, March Field and Hamilton Field, Calif. |
| 1934 | Pilot, Army Air Corps mail operations |
| 1937 | Pilot, Northwest Airlines |
| 1938 | Returned to military, Seventh Bomb Group, Hamilton Field, Calif. Married Dora Brett (divorced) |
| 1939-1941 | Test pilot, Wright Field, Ohio Attended Air Corps Engineering School, Wright Field, Ohio |
| 1942 | Masters degree, aeronautical engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. Nineteenth Bomb Group, Fifth Air Force, Southwest Pacific |
| 1942-1943 | Chief, Maintenance and Engineering Division, Fifth Air Force Service Command, Southwest Pacific |
| 1943-1944 | Chief of staff, Fifth Air Force Service Command, Southwest Pacific |
| 1944 | Chief of staff, advance headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, New Guinea |
| 1944-1946 | Commanding officer, advance headquarters, Far East Air Service Command, New Guinea, Philippines, Okinawa, Japan |
| 1946-1949 | Chief, Scientific Liaison Branch, Deputy Chief of Staff, Materiel, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. |
| 1949-1950 | Student, National War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala. |
| 1950 | Deputy assistant for evaluation, Deputy Chief of Staff, Development, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. |
| 1951-1954 | Assistant for development planning, Deputy Chief of Staff, Development, headquarters, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. |
| 1954 | Assistant to commander, headquarters, Air Research and Development Command, Baltimore, Md. |
| 1954-1957 | Assistant to commander, Air Research and Development Command with additional duty as Commander, Air Force Western Development Division, Inglewood, Calif. |
| 1957-1958 | Commander, Air Ballistic Missiles Division, Inglewood, Calif. |
| 1958-1959 | Deputy commander for ballistic missiles, Air Research and Development Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Md. |
| 1959-1961 | Commander, headquarters, Air Research and Development Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Md. |
| 1961 | Promoted to general |
| 1961-1966 | Commander, Air Force Systems Command, Andrews Air Force Base, Md. |
| 1965 | Appointed director of the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program |
| 1966 | Retired from United States Air Force |
| 1967 | Founded Urban, Inc., later renamed Urban Systems Associates, Inc. |
| 1968 | Founded Schriever and McKee Associates, Inc., later Schriever and McKee, Inc. |
| 1970-1973 | Member, President's Advisory Council on Management Improvement |
| 1980 | Inducted into Aviation Hall of Fame |
| 1985 | Appointed to President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board |
| 1985-1986 | Member, National Commission on Space |
| circa 1985-1993 | Member, Strategic Defense Initiative Advisory Committee |
| 1993-circa 2000 | Member, Ballistic Missile Defense Advisory Committee |
| 1997 | Married Joni James |
| 1998 | Falcon Air Force Base renamed Schriever Air Force Base, Colo. |
| 2005, June 20 | Died, Washington, D.C. |