Reimar Lüst | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft https://www.mpg.de/8241473/reimar-luest
People don’t generally say that they have two dates of birth; however, physicist and science manager Professor Reimar Lüst is one who does. The first date of birth is his real one: 90 years ago, on 25 March 1923, is when he was born in Barmen (now a part of Wuppertal). He mentions his other birthday in the book Der Wissenschaftsmacher, a collection of conversations recorded between historian Paul Nolte and Lüst two years ago: that date is 11 May 1943. That’s the day when Lüst, then an engineering officer, was the last man out of a submarine.
the ESA in 1990, he had long since found something else