Loading ...“The monument unveiled today is a cultural landmark providing a site where the world can remember this great scholar,” said the president of the Romanian Academy.
Vienna deputy mayor Renate Brauner too evoked the personality of the inventor of the first rockets, who was born in 1509 in Dornbach (now a part of Vienna), Austria, and died in 1579 in Sibiu (central Romania). Brauner expressed joy over this “linking element our nations and cities share.’
In his turn, Austrian Ambassador in Bucharest Martin Eichtinger said that the unveiling of this monument is an extraordinary chance to honor one of the greatest scientists who chose Sibiu to be his home city.
“We are witnessing a renaissance of the true European spirit. Europe must become a single market of talent and cooperation between Romania and Austria,” said Eichtinger.
Bucharest general mayor Sorin Oprescu offered a different perspective, highlighting the cultural and historical dimension of the monument’s being built. He reiterated the good relations between the City Halls of Bucharest and Vienna and the multi-level cooperation between the two cities.
Conrad Haas, a precursor to modern rocket technology, served as a gunner in the army of Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I, and took over as master of the arsenal.
Like Leonardo da Vinci – who tightly joined artistry and technical knowledge – Conrad Haas authored a book about the military art of rocket building. Haas had thorough knowledge of mathematics, geometry, physics and chemistry.
The inauguration of the monument was an occasion to remind that in one of his manuscripts, Conrad Haas was calling for the peaceful use of rockets and not as warfare, although he was a weapons builder by profession.
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