Conrad Haas
Conrad Haas or Konrad Haas (* 1509 probably in Dornbach near Vienna , † 1576 in Sibiu , Transylvania ) was a military technician and rocket pioneer .
Life
Conrad Haas came to Sibiu in 1551 with the army of the Roman-German King Ferdinand I as a kitman and gunsmith , where he took over the management of the arsenal.
Between 1529 and 1559 he added an inherited, from his ancestor Hans Haasenwein (“auß dem haasenhoff bey landshut”) between 1450 and May 1459, essentially based on the fireworks book of 1420 , which was widely used in the late Middle Ages , and which he named Art book (Sibiu State Archives, Varia II 374), and in which on 282 pages, among other things, the two known areas of application as fireworks carriers and rocket technology weapons are described. This manuscript was only found in the Sibiu State Archives in 1961. The Hermannstädter Kunstbuch , the third part of which was written or compiled by Conrad Haas and also contains content that goes beyond weapon technology, deals with detailed manufacturing issues of rocket construction, whereby it also explains the operating principle of the rocket and describes a large number of rocket types, for example the Multi-stage rocket , the bundle rocket and the idea of the modern spaceship. It also deals with the arrangement of fuel sets in stage rockets, various fuel mixtures including liquid fuel, and introduces delta-shaped stabilizing fins and bell-shaped nozzles. In the last paragraph of the work Haas writes: But my Rhat defends Friedt and no war, let the rifles be under the roof, so the bullet would not be fired, the pulffer neither burned nor wet, so the prince retained his reputation, the gunsmith Belly; that is the Rhat, so Conrad Haas admitted. Before this manuscript was discovered, the first description of the three-stage rocket was ascribed to the Polish weapon designer Casimir Simienowicz in his work Ars magna artilleriae pars prima from 1650.
Works
- Art book between 1529 and 1556, manuscript in the National Archives Bucharest, Ms. 2286, facsimile in the National Archives - Sibiu Branch, Varia II 374.
- Conrad Haas: Draft How you should make beautiful rockets that go upstairs from within yourself , manuscript from Sibiu, archive of the Bucharest Academy.
literature
- Hans Bergel : Dice games of life : four portraits of important Transylvanians, Conrad Haas, Johann Martin Honigberger , Parul Richter, Arthur Phleps.– Munich: Meschendörfer, 1972
- Hans Barth : Conrad Haas - rocket pioneer and humanist , Johannis Reeg Verlag, Heilbronn 2005, ISBN 3-937320-55-5 , 33 illustrations, 94 pages.
- Gundolf Keil : Haasenwein, Hans. In: Burghart Wachinger et al. (Hrsg.): The German literature of the Middle Ages. Author Lexicon . 2nd, completely revised edition, ISBN 3-11-022248-5 , Volume 3: Gert van der Schüren - Hildegard von Bingen. Berlin / New York 1981, Sp. 360–363 (on Hans Haasenwein, Konrad Haas and the Hermannstädter Kunstbuch ).
- In 1983 Frieder Schuller - Transsilvania Film GmbH - shot a documentary about Conrad Haas for ORF, in which Hermann Oberth can also be seen.
- Doru Todericiu: Rocket technology in the 16th century . In: History of Technology . No. 34.2 , 1967, ISSN 0040-117X , p. 97-114 .
- Doru Todericiu: Preistoria Rachetei Moderne. Manuscrisul de la Sibiu 1529-1569, Editura Academiei RSR, Bucuresti, 1969
- Ernst Wagner: History of the Transylvanian Saxons. Wort und Welt Verlag, Thaur near Innsbruck, 1990
- Doru Todericiu: Preistoria Rachetei Moderne. Manuscrisul de la Sibiu 1529–1569, Editura Academiei, Bucuresti, 2008
Web links
- Literature by and about Conrad Haas in the catalog of the German National Library
- Richard Friebe : Firstly beautiful rackets mancherley Art. FAZ, December 30, 2009, accessed on January 24, 2015 .
- Missile Pioneer Short Article
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doru Todericiu: The brandy recipe in Hans Haasenwein's Sibiu “art book”. In: Sudhoff's archive. Volume 54, 1970, p. 211 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haas, Conrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Military technician and missile pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1509 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dornbach (Vienna) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1576 |
| Place of death | Sibiu |