Mario Zippermayr
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Biography
Mario Zippermayr was born in Milan, northern Italy, from Austrian parents. He studied in Freiburg and Karlsruhe. In 1927 he earned his doctorate in engineering and habilitation in 1938 in physics. He was from 1933 a member of the Austrian Nazi Party and in 1938 a member of the SD.
Probably starting from 1942, he began building a research institute with about 35 employees in Vienna and Lofer (Salzburg).
The main developments in this laboratory were the air torpedo L 40, which could be dropped from any height and speed to 700 km/h, the Dornier Do 335 high-speed aircraft and cauldron project, had the goal of a highly effective detonation charge for use in a warhead | to develop Flugabwehrkanone Flakraketen. It was fired in a bullet coal dust, an explosive charge was then the distribution of the pulverized coal. The following Greater explosion should achieve a high efficiency. 1943 was the first test with a 60 kilogram thermobaric bomb instead.
There were more tests on the military training Doeberitz in Berlin and at the Lake Starnberg. The best results were obtained with 60 % oxygen and 40 % liquid coal dust. The destruction radius is in Döberitz 600 meters, amounted to 4 to 4.5 kilometres for the improved 25 to 50-kilogram bomb on Lake Starnberg. At the end of the war the production of larger bombs with liquid oxygen in Nordhausen was in preparation.
After Germany's capitulation Mario Zippermayr remained in Lofer near the formerly secret weapons research facility mountain valley and waited willingly visits to answer questions. Even later Mario Zippermayr responded willingly to technical questions about his research, but did not, unlike other researchers, work for the Soviet Union or the US.
Zippermayr developed in Lofer a successful "climate-therapeutic method" for treating respiratory diseases: He put on High voltage sentladungen an artificial mountain climate forth. The therapeutic success, especially in whooping cough and respiratory problems were so great that in 1953 he moved to Kremsmünster, Upper Austria, and there opened a special practice for this procedure.
He died at Kremsmünster in 1979.
