Werner Richard Kuers (April 18, 1907 - May 14, 1983)[2] was a German-American engineer and expert in guided missiles.

There he met Wernher von Braun, who assigned him to work in the center's machine shop.

[3] In 1945 Kuers was invited to the United States through Operation Paperclip; he arrived in the country on November 16, 1945, aboard the Argentina and was sent to Fort Bliss.

[2] From there Kuers was assigned to White Sands, where he assembled and test launched V-2 rockets from components shipped from Germany.

Later, while working at the Marshall Space Flight Center, he was concertmaster for the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra from 1955 until his retirement.