Hanns Hörbiger

Hanns Hörbiger (November 29, 1860 - October 11, 1931) was an Austrian engineer from Vienna who devised the Welteislehre hypothesis (English: "World Ice Doctrine", WEL, also known as Glacial Cosmogony). His concepts were put forward in books authored in collaboration with amateur astronomer Philipp Fauth. Hörbiger's theories were later popularized by H.S. Bellamy, and influenced Hans Robert Scultetus, head of the Pflegestätte für Wetterkunde ("Meteorology Section") of the Ahnenerbe ("Ancestral Heritage"), a department of the Nazi German Schutzstaffel (SS), who believed that Welteislehre could be used to provide accurate long-range weather forecasts.

Selected Bibliography

 * &mdash; [English: "Hurricanes, Sudden Changes In Weather, Hailstorms and Martian Canal Doublings."]
 * &mdash; [English: "Hörbiger's Glacial Cosmogony, a New History of the Development of the Universe and the Solar System based on the Knowledge of the Conflict Between a Cosmic Neptunism and an Equally Universal Plutonism, etc."]