Raimund Nimführ

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Raimund Nimführ (before 1923)

Raimund Nimführ (born August 17, 1874 in Klein Tajax , Moravia , † September 15, 1954 in Vienna ) was an Austrian aviation theorist , aircraft pioneer and meteorologist .

Life

Nimführ visited after the elementary school in Znojmo the Stiftsgymnasium Melk . He then studied physics, mathematics, meteorology and astronomy as well as philosophy at the University of Vienna . During his studies, he was also a member of the Austrian Aero Club .

In 1901 he bought a Lilienthal flapping wing apparatus . He also tried sliding with his own designs, but was not very successful.

After graduating as Dr. phil. In 1904 he became a university assistant at the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics . During this time there were numerous balloon flights, during which he also made some patented inventions. During one of these ramparts in 1907, however, he suffered severe health damage, which resulted in his resignation from the civil service.

In the following years he increasingly studied bird flight and wrote the basics of gliding. In practice, he built a model airplane with pneumatically pulsating wings . After 1923 Nimführ began to build a hover wing. For this purpose he collected money and brought together an amount of 250,000 shillings . However, he could never cope with the plane, so that he was sued in 1939 and even sentenced to one year in prison in 1941.

Fonts (selection)

  • About glider and wave flight. In: Zeitschrift für Luftschiffahrt und Physik der Atmospheric. Published by the German Association for the Promotion of Aviation in Berlin and the Vienna Aviation Technical Association. Vintage XIX (1900). Mayer & Müller, Berlin 1900, ZDB -ID 881115-5 .
  • Traffic and Industry Newspaper. Development and status of personal aerobatics. Lecture given at the Vienna Aviation Technical Association. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 13863/1903, March 31, 1903, p. 19 ff. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / nfp.
  • About gliding machines. In: Wiener Luftschiffer-Zeitung. Editor Viktor Silberer . Volume II (1903). Verlag der Allgemeine Sport-Zeitung, Vienna 1903, ZDB -ID 983615-9 .
  • The physical basics of balloon-free flight. In: Illustrated aeronautical communications. Volume VIII (1904). Trübner, Strasbourg 1904, ZDB -ID 515874-6 .
  • The physical basics of hovering and flying. In: Flight and Motor Technology. Volume IV (1910). S. n., Vienna 1910, ZDB -ID 995110-6 .
  • Why don't we have war airships yet? C. Konegen Publishing House, Vienna 1908, OBV .
  • Genetic representation of the equations of state of aerodynamic pilots. C. Konegen publishing house, Vienna 1909, OBV .
  • Guide to aviation and flight technology in a generally understandable presentation and with special consideration of historical development. A. Hartleben's publishing house, Vienna 1909; archive.org .
  • Aviation, its scientific basis and technical development. 2nd improved and increased edition. From nature and the spiritual world, Volume 300, ZDB -ID 516263-4 . BG Teubner Verlag , Leipzig 1910, OBV .
  • The control of the hang glider. In: Specialized newspaper for automobilism and flight technology. Volume V (1911), ZDB -ID 2665472-6 . Mayer & Müller, Schlesinger Vienna 1911.
  • Aviation. Dr. Bastian Schmid's natural science school library, Volume 10, ZDB -ID 983088-1 . Teubner, Leipzig 1911.
  • The glider problem. In: Austrian flight magazine. Volume VI (1912). Waldheim-Eberle, Vienna 1912, ZDB -ID 961853-3 .
  • Aviation Götterdämmerung. Verlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1913, OBV .
  • Basics of the physics of flight. Druckerei- und Verlags-Aktiengesellschaft vorm. R. v. Waldheim, J. Eberle & Co., Vienna 1913, OBV .
  • - (Ed.): Aviatische Chronik. (Magazine). Verlag Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna 1914–15, OBV
  • The automatic tip-over and fall-proof aircraft of the future. Printed as a manuscript, Augsburg 1915.
  • The soaring (hovering) flight of birds and its mechanical imitation. In: Messages from the Austrian Aero Club. Volume III (1917). S. n., Vienna 1917, ZDB -ID 544794-x .
  • Theory of mechanical flight based on the tension (relaxation) pressure of the atmospheric air with dynamic compression (dilution). Publishing house for specialist literature, Vienna 1916.
  • The flying machine and its potential for development. Publishing house C. Konegen, Vienna 1916.
  • Mechanical and technical basics of gliding. Library for Aviation and Aviation Technology, Volume 22, ZDB -ID 966180-3 . Publishing house RC Schmidt, Berlin 1919.
  • How all humans will fly. Tagblatt-Bibliothek, Volume 21/24, ZDB -ID 599655-7 . Steyrermühl-Verlag, Vienna 1923, OBV .
  • Dr. Raimund Nimführ-Flight Exposé. (5 parts). Self-published, Vienna 1931, DNB 560756593 .
  • To all German national comrades! Memorandum on the development and status of aviation and its importance for the German people in national, economic and social terms after the creation of the anti-tip and fall-proof hovering flying machine. Wedl, Melk 1932, OBV .
  • Publications on aviation, aviation technology and their auxiliary sciences (meteorology, aerology, aerodynamics). Self-published, Vienna 1936, OBV .
  • Resume. Written at the suggestion of Professor Franz Karollus for the “Yearbook of the German Society for Science and Art”, Brno. Self-published, Vienna 1936, OBV .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Keimel, p. 85

Remarks

  1. ↑ Dissertation: Some results of the international balloon-probe trips.  - See: Meguscher, p. 12.
personal data
SURNAME Nimführ, Raimund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian aviation theorist, aircraft pioneer and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Klein Tajax , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1954
Place of death Vienna