Mario Zippermayr

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Mario Zippermayr (born April 25, 1899 in Milan , †  January 13, 1979 in Kremsmünster ) was an Austrian physicist and National Socialist . He is considered to be the inventor of the aerosol or vacuum bomb.

biography

Mario Zippermayr was born in Milan to Austrian parents and studied in Freiburg im Breisgau and Karlsruhe . In 1927 he received his doctorate in engineering and completed his habilitation in physics in 1938. From 1933 he was a member of the Austrian NSDAP and from 1938 a member of the SD .

Presumably from 1942 onwards he began to set up a research institute with around 35 employees in Vienna and Lofer (Salzburg). The most important developments in this laboratory were the air torpedo L 40, which could be dropped from any height and speed up to 700 km / h, the Pfeil high-speed aircraft Do 335 and the Hexenkessel project, which aimed to create a highly effective detonation charge for use Develop in a warhead of anti-aircraft missiles . Coal dust was fired in a projectile, which was distributed over a large area in the surrounding air near the targeted targets by the detonation of the capsule (at a preset height). The subsequent explosion of the dispersed coal dust should achieve high efficiency. The first test with a 60 kilogram thermobaric explosive device took place in 1943.

There were major tests on the Döberitz military training area near Berlin and on Lake Starnberg . The best results were obtained with 60 percent liquid oxygen and 40 percent coal dust. The destruction radius is said to have been 600 meters in Döberitz, and 4 to 4.5 kilometers for the improved 25 to 50 kilogram bomb over Lake Starnberg. At the end of the war, the production of larger bombs with liquid oxygen in Nordhausen was in preparation.

After Germany surrendered, Mario Zippermayr stayed in Lofer near the formerly secret weapons research facility in Hochtal and willingly waited for visits to answer questions. Even later, Mario Zippermayr willingly answered technical questions about his research, but, unlike other researchers, did not start working for the USA or the Soviet Union.

In Lofer, Zippermayr developed a successful " climatic therapeutic process" for the treatment of respiratory diseases: he created an artificial high-altitude climate using high-voltage discharges. The therapeutic successes, especially with whooping cough and respiratory diseases, were so great that he moved to Kremsmünster , Upper Austria, in 1953 and opened a special practice there for this procedure.

The homeopath Philipp Zippermayr (* 1949) is his son.

Publications

  • The heat transfer on the sprinkled pipe . 1927 (dissertation, TeH Karlsruhe, July 23, 1927)
  • About the processes involved in the initiation of liquid explosives . In: Chimia , Vol. 13, 1959, pp. 56-63.
  • Healing powers of the air as the carrier of life . Club print, Steyr 1974
  • Hugo Portisch, Sepp Riff “Austria II - The Rebirth of Our State” ISBN 3-218-00422-5 Vienna 1985, page 217 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mario Zippermayr's biography of his son Philipp Zippermayr
  2. ↑ a b c FAZ - grandfather's vacuum bomb
  3. ↑ US Forces Austria, Counter-Intelligence Corps, Salzburg, Aug. 4, 1945 Case No S / Z / 55 Dr. Mario Zippermayer: NARA / RG 319 Entry 82a "Reports and Messages, ALSOS"
  4. ↑ Hitler's Supressed and Still Secret Weapons, Science and Technology , Henry Stevens, Adventures Unlimited Press, 2007, pp. 103-110.

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personal data
SURNAME Zippermayr, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist and National Socialist
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1979
Place of death Kremsmünster