PRODUCTION OF TELEVISION EQUIPMENT IN EAST GERMANY

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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 22, 2008
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: June 17, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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 revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
S-B-C-R-FT
COUNTRY East Germany
SUBJECT ProductLon of Television
Equipment in East Germany
DATE OF INFO.
PLACE ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
SOURCE EVALUATIONS ARE DEFINITIVE. APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
1. The high-vacuum department of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications'
Central Institute for Wireless Engineering (Zentralinstitut flier Funkteeh-
nik-ZAhFT)j, Berlin:Adlershof, with its s-taff, under the. leadership of Diplo
Inge Walter Hass, was separated from Z]FT and placed under the `control of
VEB Werk fuer Fernmeldewesen WF in January 1955. It'was deciided that Hass'
responsibilities should be limited to'televison-camera tube development and
that he should be placed directly under the supervision of Director Rudi.
Mueller. Hass refused to accept this restriction of his activities and gave
notide during February.,- a group of two engineers and two technicians under
the legdership of Mauer (fnu) is to be transferred from other departments of
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ikonoskono);
the IF Plant to take over the production of flat-surface iconoscopes (Ri.esel-
The current production of the department consists of$
a. About 30 supericonoscopes and flat-surface iconoseopes per month,; with the
vacuum. pumps at present available, this t`igure could not possibly be'in-
creased above'50,o
b. About 60 e1ectron multipliers per month.
Th? entire production-of these instruments is taken by*the television center at
Berlin-Adlershof During the first week of March 1955, thecenter. ordered 110
flat-surface iconoscopes. Early in 1954, Hass Suggested to' the?ministry that
11television-camera tubes should be produced for export. The only country which
showed any interest at all was Czechoslovakia', but none were exported there.
Current development tasks in the department consist ofs
a. Image orthicons. Five have been completed and are considered, on the mole,:
to be satisfactory; however, the picture is not uniformly' illuminated and
spots appear now and again.
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b. Vidicons. Three have been completed9 and Hass intended to set up an
industrial television equipment with a vidicon'for exhibition at the
Leipzig Fair., but the WF Plant apparently turned down the suggestion.
c. Larger picture tubes. Larger tubes for television receivers with rec-
tangular screens (Kolben) are to be developed and then mass-produced*
d. Large projector. A large projector is to be developed for use in
moving-picture theaters and public halls.
e. Infrared image converters. This development task was begun early in
19519 and 3 tubes were delivered to the Institute for the Study of
Radiation Sources in the former OSRAM building in Berlin 0 17, Way
schiuerplatz 9-10.' The'institute is believed to have built the equip-
ment into which the tubes were fitted for testing,
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