Hans Robert Scultetus
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Hans Robert Scultetus was a German
meteorologist, who headed the Pflegestätte für Wetterkunde (Meteorology Section) of the Nazi
Ahnenerbe
think tank.
Scultetus was appointed head of the Ahnenerbe's Meteorology Section by Heinrich Himmler
, who was convinced that Hans Hörbiger
's "Welteislehre
" could be used to provide accurate long-range weather forecasts. Scultetus held the SS rank of Obersturmführer
(First Lieutenant) at the time.
Scultetus published Klimatologie in 1969.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
meteorologist, who headed the Pflegestätte für Wetterkunde (Meteorology Section) of the Nazi
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
Ahnenerbe
Ahnenerbe
The Ahnenerbe was a Nazi German think tank that promoted itself as a "study society for Intellectual Ancient History." Founded on July 1, 1935, by Heinrich Himmler, Herman Wirth, and Richard Walther Darré, the Ahnenerbe's goal was to research the anthropological and cultural history of the Aryan...
think tank.
Scultetus was appointed head of the Ahnenerbe's Meteorology Section by Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...
, who was convinced that Hans Hörbiger
Hans Hörbiger
Hanns Hörbiger was an Austrian engineer from Vienna with roots in Tyrol. He took part in the construction of the Budapest subway and in 1894 invented a new type of valve essential for compressors still in widespread use today.He is also remembered today for his pseudoscientific Welteislehre ...
's "Welteislehre
Welteislehre
Welteislehre , also known as Glazial-Kosmogonie is a pseudoscientific cosmological theory proposed by Hans Hörbiger, an Austrian engineer and inventor and respected steam engine designer, whose invention of the Hörbiger valve made him a wealthy man.Hörbiger did not arrive at his theory through...
" could be used to provide accurate long-range weather forecasts. Scultetus held the SS rank of Obersturmführer
Obersturmführer
Obersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi party that was used by the SS and also as a rank of the SA. Translated as “Senior Assault Leader”, the rank of Obersturmführer was first created in 1932 as the result of an expansion of the Sturmabteilung and the need for an additional rank in...
(First Lieutenant) at the time.
Scultetus published Klimatologie in 1969.