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 first put forward in the 1913 book, Wirbelstürme, Wetterstürze, Hagelkatastrophen und Marskanal-Verdoppelungen (English: "Hurricanes, Sudden Changes In Weather, Hailstorms and Martian Canal Doublings"), a collaboration with amateur astronomer Philipp Fauth, and expanded upon in their 1925 work ''Hörbigers Glazial-Kosmogonie: Eine Neue Entwicklungsgeschichte Des Weltalls und Des Sonnensystems ("Hörbiger's Glacial Cosmogony: A New History of the Development of the Universe and the Solar System").

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.

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 * &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."]