Paul Ehmayr

Paul Ehmayr[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] (October 28, 1909, in Vienna – September 15, 1993 in Linz; sometimes incorrectly spelled as Ehmayer, Ehmeier or Ehmeyer) was a German-Austrian rocket engineer.

There he worked from 1930 as part of the engineering team[9] around Hermann Oberth, Rudolf Nebel and Klaus Riedel[8] (together with Wernher von Braun, Rolf Engel [de], Hans Bermüller, Hans Hüter, Kurt Heinisch and Helmuth Zoike) in the development, especially in the construction and experiments with the first rockets powered by liquid gas.

Development and tests initially took place in the Chemisch-Technische Reichsanstalt,[3][2][12] financially supported by the Army Weapons Office.

[11][9] The jointly developed rockets included the Oberth cone nozzle ("Kegeldüse"),[2][12][15] different versions of the Repulsor,[2][8] the Mirak [de] I-III[3][11] and the Magdeburg pilot rocket (10-L)[3][6][10] The activities of the Verein für Raumschifffahrt and at Raketenflugplatz Berlin have been under strict surveillance.

[2] - all activities have now been continued under the patronage[12] of the German Wehrmacht in the Kummersdorf Army Research Center,[2] later in the Peenemünde Army Research Center[8][2] From then on Ehmayr worked in various companies as a technical employee until he returned to Austria together with his wife and son at the end of the war.