VEB CARL ZEISS JENA, FERTIGUNGSBETRIEB, DRESDEN-REICK

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A006600600002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 19, 2007
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: May 18, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTE LIGENCB AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
S-E-C -R E- T
COUNTRY East Germany
VEB Carl Zeiss Jena,
Fertigu.ngsbetrieb, Dresden/Reiok
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
This material contains information affecting the
National Defense of the United States within the
meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title 18, U.S.C.
Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revel.
ation of which in any manner to an unauthorized
person is prohibited by law.
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DATE DISTR. 18 May 1955
NO. OF PAGES 3
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THE SOURCE EVALUATIONS IN THIS REPORT ARE DEFINITIVE.
THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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to VEB Car], Zeiss Jena, Fertigungsbetrieb Dresden-Reick is located in
Dresden#eick at Muegelnerstrasse 40e Before World War II, the plant
was in armament production. ?lthough dismantled in 1945, the plant was
reactivated in 1946 with less than 50 employees. By 1947.48,, the plant
had approximately 120 employees; in 1949-50 approximately 175 employeese
Its personnel strength as of February 1955 was approximately 630, of
which approximately 70% was female. Of the 630 employees, 450 are in
production work, 60 to 70 are supervisors, and approximately 75 are
apprentices.
2. The plant now has a floor space of approximately 4,000 square meters
with a frontage of 40 meters.
3o Hans Klessen was chief of the plant until February 1955. His deeuty
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The Production Plan for 1954 was in the amount of 5#500,000 DMEkof which
about 4,880,000 D1(E was produced. The main reason for its failure was not
a-shortage of raw materials at the plant
but the fail
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ure of delivery of the
metal parts for production, e.g. the metal mounts for view finders. Earlier
the plant suffered from a lack of optical glass, polishing and abrasive
agents, a lack which no longer exists.
6. The following is a listing of production by type:
a. Rangefinders: 300,000 units planned and completed.
75,000 for IHAGEE Kamerawerk A.G., Dresden
30,000 for VEB ZeitrO- ' Dresden
75,000 for VEB, Kamer& J ioderseblitz: Drosden
40,000 for FHB Due? r Ork. Rheims tall., Soeim:ea
80,000 for various sra11 orders
b. Color Filters: 75,000 planned, about 10,000 produced. Some L0,000 to
50,000 were left in stock because the metal mountings were not available.
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c:_ Special Prisms: 60-70,000 planned, 33,000 produced, 16,000 deliveredo
d. Rangefinder Lenses for the IBAOEE Achromaten: Fulfilled.
e. A three-lens View tinder, called "Tritare" and "Novenare":
30,000 planned for 6 x 9 cm. Tritare cameras of which only 1'79000
were produced because of a lack of metal parts. 12,000 were planned
for the 24 x 36 mm cameras, of which on10 were produced because
of low demand.
f. Special Production for institutes, universities,, etco
1 Electric photocells for motion pioture projectors..
2 Electron vacuum tubes for Electron vervielfaohsr.(electron multiplier)
3 Counting tubes for deiger-Mueller radioactivity counters
(Most of the above items were not produced in series but were only manufactured
after special orders for 10 or 20 itemu of various sizes had been reeeivedo
The next higher echelon to the Dresden-deiok plant is the Betriebeleitung
0 tik Jena. Its chief is Warner Schubert- "9ohwarzer Schubert"o
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a ory was an exception to other Zeiss branch plants. It was independent
to a large degree and was supposed to become completely independent, but these
plans have subsequently been oancelledo
8. On occasions, Prof. Paul Goerlich, the Chief Scientific Director (HWL) of
TEB Carl Zeiss Jena would have the Dresden-Reick plant bui d certain parts
for experimental instruments and devices that his various Mena laboratories
were working on. aoerlich would never quite explain what the and use of
these instruments and devices were but would urge Master Mechanic Sohoettner
(fnu) to exercise particular care in their manufacture. Within the last
year, these special orders comprised only Photo- special
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parts that oerlich eeded for his research and development work would be
built in Jena or some of the other Zeiss installations, but the order for the
photo-electric cells and the thereto-elements -was given to the Dresden-
Reiek plant because of the delicacy of the'work and because doerlich remem-
bered Schoettner as a very capable-person who had'pausual skill In these
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