Viktor Schauberger, scientist, inventor, was born in Holzschlag, Austria the son of a "forest manager" who's father, as well, was a "forest manager." As a boy Schauberger spent a great deal of time in the woods aspiring to be a forest manager like his father and grandfather. Schauberger was a close observer of nature and the energies of nature. He noted that water loses energy during the daylight but regains energy at night. He concluded that water has electrical properties. He noted too that water doesn't travel in a straight line but instead swirls and, based on this observation, he designed a flume for carrying logs out of the forest rather than by ox cart as was traditional. He reduced costs of harvesting logs by 90%. By his design, logs that normally don't float (oak and ash) were carried by the water swirling about them. He made observations of animals and wind as well. He concluded that energies that swirl downward (eg. tornadoes) were "destructive" but energies that swirled upward were "constructive." In 1929 he began patenting inventions based on water engineering and he built a water turbine to produce hydroelectricity. In World War II he was imprisoned by the Nazis but given the alternative to be executed or work on Nazi war projects. He chose the later and purportedly built a "flying saucer" type of craft but whether it was ever flown is unknown. He supposedly was working as well on a "super submarine" but he withheld information to slow the project as he didn't agree with weapons of destruction. The war ended before the project came to fruition. After the war, he was held and interrogated by Allied agents to determine his ideologies and his papers and drawings were confiscated. In the fifties, he and his son were induced to come to Texas for some project that interested him but upon arriving he determined the project was a sham and he returned to Austria disillusioned and disgusted. He died 9 days after his return at the age of 73. His son Walter died in 1994 and is buried in Austria, a daughter is still living.
Grave location: Sect.13, number 385