Paul Schmidt (inventor)

Paul Schmidt (born March 26, 1898 in Hagen / Westphalia , † October 18, 1976 in Munich ) was a German inventor .

Live and act

Scheme of a detonation jet engine (left) and a flying bomb V1 (right)

During his studies in Erlangen , Paul Schmidt became a member of the Bubenreuther fraternity in 1919 . Since around 1928 he developed his idea of a new type of drive, the pulsating combustion or the periodically working blasting device. Based on a one-time ignition of the fuel mixture, the jet pipe automatically controls the air and fuel supply without large technical parts and ignites the next combustion independently. Compared to other motors, the drive is still compact in production and is unrivaled in terms of price. However, it has the problem of a relatively short service life.

Due to the war, the drive was taken over by the Argus works in Berlin and installed in the Fieseler Fi 103 (V1) . A protracted patent dispute over the authorship was decided in April 1945 (!) To the effect that the engine would henceforth be called Argus-Schmidtrohr.

After the war, Paul Schmidt ran an engineering company in Munich.

Technically, there are still further development possibilities for his invention today, but these are only pursued half-heartedly. One of the best-known applications today, in addition to being used as a heating burner, is to drive the cruise missile .

The latest developments in propulsion technology lead away from the deflagration jet engine ("pulsejet") developed by Paul Schmidt towards the ramjet engine ("ramjet").

literature

Wolfgang Gückelhorn, Detlev Paul: V1 - "Eifelschreck" kills, crashes and impacts of the flying bomb from the Eifel and the right bank of the Rhine 1944/45 . Helios, Aachen, ISBN 3-933608-94-5
Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoss: Schmidt, Paul. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 211 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Julius Andreae and Fritz Griessbach: The fraternity of Bubenreuth. 1917-1967. Erlangen 1967, p. 224.

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German inventor
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hagen , Westphalia
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1976
Place of death	Munich

[1] Julius Andreae and Fritz Griessbach: The fraternity of Bubenreuth. 1917-1967. Erlangen 1967, p. 224.