Oscar Carl Holderer, the last known surviving member of the original German engineering team that came to the United States shortly after World War II and designed the rocket that took astronauts to the moon, died on Tuesday in Huntsville, Ala. He was 95.

His son Michael said he died a few days after having a stroke.

Born in Germany the year after World War I ended, Mr. Holderer came to the United States in 1945 with a group of 120 rocket engineers led by Wernher von Braun. Their move was part of a project called Operation Paperclip, which transferred technology for the German V-2 and other rockets to the United States.

The team was originally based in White Sands, N.M., and moved in 1950 to the Redstone Arsenal in Alabama, where members designed the Saturn V rocket that first took astronauts to the lunar surface in 1969.

Michael Holderer said his father — a mechanical engineer, designer and fabricator — designed the high-speed wind tunnel that was used to develop Saturn and then oversaw its construction at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone.