[broun; Ger. broun] 
| 1. | E⋅va [ee-vuh; Ger. ey-vah] , 1912–45, mistress of Adolf Hitler. |
| 2. | Karl Fer⋅di⋅nand [kahrl fur-dn-and; Ger. kahrl fer-dee-nahnt] , 1850–1918, German physicist and specialist in wireless telegraphy: Nobel prize in physics 1909. |
| 3. | Wern⋅her von [vair-ner von, vur-, wur-; Ger. ver-nuh r fuhn] , 1912–77, German rocket engineer, in U.S. after 1945. |
| Braun (brôn, broun) German lover and later wife of Adolf Hitler. They began living together in 1936, but the liaison was kept secret, and she was never seen in public with him. They were married hours before their double suicide on April 30, 1945. |
| Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von 1912-1977. German-born American rocket engineer, who was director of the U.S. Army team that put the first American satellite, Explorer I, into space (1958). |