There is a report, however, that his death was reported prematurely and that he was identified by a witness who knew him in
Bavaria in 1964 or 1965 (26). The publisher of this book, Thomas
Mehner, was so kind as to send me a copy of the statement by a
Bavarian woman who knew Schriever and made this claim (27). This
means that there is a possibility that Schriever did do post-war
work on flying saucers.
Interestingly enough, Schriever never claimed that his saucer
ever flew at all! If this true, Schriever's saucer was still in
the pre-flight stage at the time of the Russian advance and its
ultimate destruction on the Prag-Gbell tarmac. This is in direct
contradiction to the sources cited above and the photographic
evidence. How can this seeming inconsistency be explained?
J. Andeas Epp has always maintained that it was he who originated
the type of design used in the Schriever-Habermohl project (28).
He states in his book that the imbalance in the ring of wingvanes which plagued the early Schriever-Habermohl prototypes was
a deviation from his original design in which the wing-vanes were
lengthened. He states that when they returned to his original
design, the saucer was able to take off (29) (30). He referred
to the saucer used in the August, 1944 unofficial lift-off, the
saucer whose wing-vanes had been altered and then corrected
through his intervention, as the "Habermohlischen Version", the
Habermohl version (31).
Could the discrepancy referred to above be accounted for if there
were actually two lines of saucers built by Schriever and
Habermohl? In other words, could the Schriever-Habermohl project
have actually been a Schriever project and a Habermohl project,
two separate designs within the team? Georg Klein seems to
answer this question, stating that "three constructions" which
were finished at Prag by the end of 1944. One of these, he says,
was a design by Dr. Miethe (32). The best interpretation of the
words of both Epp and Klein would indicate that both Schriever
and Habermohl each produced their own design. Schriever made no
claim that his design flew. Epp claims the Habermohl design did
fly in August, 1944 and again in February 14, 1945. This was the
saucer witnessed by both Klein and Epp in flight.
Therefore, the history of the Schriever-Habermohl project in Prag
can be summarized in a nutshell as follows: Epp's statement is
that it was his design and model which formed the basis for this
project. This model was given to General Erst Udet which was
then forwarded to Dr. Walter Dornberger at Peenemuende. Dr.
Dornberger tested and recommended the design (33) which was
confirmed by Dornberger to Epp after the war (34). A facility
was set up in Prag for further development and the SchrieverHabermohl team was assigned to work on it there. At first this
project was under the auspices of Hermann Goering and the
Luftwaffe (35). Sometime later the Speer Ministry took over the
running of this project with chief engineer Georg Klein in charge
(36). Finally, the project was usurped by the SS in 1944, along
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