Helmut von Zborowski

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Helmut Graf von Zborowski (born August 21, 1905 in Theresienstadt , Bohemia , † November 16, 1969 in Brunoy , France) was an Austrian aircraft designer for vertical takeoffs . In rocket technology , he was involved in the development of the Fieseler Fi 103 and the A4 (rocket) with Wernher von Braun .

Life

Zborowski was the developer of the liquid fuel rocket motors and an expert in anti-tank rockets. He held approximately 300 patents in the aerospace and missile industries .

In 1934 he went to BMW before joining the aerospace engineer Eugen Sänger in Trauen . After he was familiar with the liquid fuel rocket motors, he worked again for the BMW aircraft engine works until the end of the war. He was director of the BMW works in Allach-Untermenzing , where aircraft engines were mass-produced by 20,000 workers (including 3,000 prisoners of war and 5,000 inmates of the Dachau concentration camp ). In 1944, he led a missile group that focused on new weapons research. The tests have been moved to Basdorf (Wandlitz) and Zühlsdorf near Berlin .

Zborowski designed the Ringflügler for two Heinkel developments. Research has shown that the performance of a propeller can be increased by 25% by the Bernoulli effect when it is mounted in a tube.

From January 1947 he was a prisoner of war in camp 317 in Göttingen because of his membership in the Waffen-SS . In the post-war period, it was forbidden for German companies to develop (military) aircraft. Like most German aircraft engineers, he therefore worked outside Germany; after his release he entered French services to do research in a castle near Paris. In 1950 he founded the Bureau Technique Zborowski (BTZ) in France and investigated the V / STOL design (Vertical and / or Short Take-Off and Landing aircraft) with ring-winged aircraft. It was here that he also developed the SNECMA C.450 experimental aircraft . Zborowski later returned to Bonn.

Zborowski had been a member of the Academic Corps Teutonia zu Graz since 1925 .

literature

  • Jürgen Michels, Olaf Przybilski: Peenemuende and his heirs in East and West . Bernard & Graefe, Bonn, 1997.
  • Objective List of German and Austrian Scientists . Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency, January 2, 1947.
  • Helmut Graf von Zborowski * 1905; † 1969 Corps Teutonia Graz aircraft designer (vertical takeoff and rocket technology, development of the V 1 and V 2 with Wernher von Braun). KSCV manual from 1985
  • R. Engel, K. von Gersdorff: Helmut Graf von Zborowski , in: DGLR-Kurzbiographien aus der Luft- und Raumfahrt, Supplement Luft- und Raumfahrt, 04/83, 2 p., 1983.
  • H. Zborowski: BMW Developments , in: History of German guided missiles development , Theodor Benecke and August W. Quick (Eds.), Verlag E. Appelhans & Co., Braunschweig 1957, pp. 297-324.
  • Rocket engines based on nitric acid and their specific drive weight, R drives . Writings of the German Academy of Aviation Research, Issue 1071, No. 82, 1943; May 1947

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 51 , 155.
personal data
SURNAME Zborowski, Helmut von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zborowski, Helmut Philip Georg Alexander Rudo Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian aircraft designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Terezín , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1969
Place of death Brunoy , France