DEPORTATION OF TECHNICIANS AND SPECIALISTS FROM KARL ZEISS, JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R000200560003-9
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• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: January 13, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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CENT AL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
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SUBJECT Deportation of Technic
from Karl Zeiss,,, Jena
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ORIGIN
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d~.ne mechanic.
a l i g ler r e i a S~; to o without 1--j r wife 1 ,` c ;ias in a hose t al. o c:
pie doctor declared her unable to travel t1 ;.den
N W IAL in cordence with
'61 V-e gjailed '!
vThe /de ryor tr t cn'~* started aatp 0300, 22 October,, Source reports from
11)1 s o'. on abserw U on Abe +4 11 detC..fls Q l ,w
by 4-6 ~~oldio,;r s' the .~-orker was ordered by a re officer at!d an /;warded
T}peter to sign a contract (Artie tsvertra eril to load his furniture
i~, : hiz) two to tour hours on a track -rvf.ded by the uss ians. The
'Russian off c ers stron ly 'urged that families r E t :t' en alca -i
33o far as source 3krlowwr rno one iii Jena had signed r 2_d -trz some ca es the ~r?orler at first a c.ri react ' efin
r fused to :t~nx but fina23
2 L ] e`; to treat; of viol ynce? y y Konstrukteur Linnemar n, for exanpie,
{t ? d only ;) ft et
threats of v1o1ence t
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wa ~e eoctor was arrested and
z? aepoc~ ,e+ regardless, One cr.~nstr~. crtor as taken to orison
re.,~."U ? al a TIT,', ti' t1 ~?'o
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d t Y~res red t j_ u , ,_ on :ere taken. apparently because they
ss ,an in ormer?r with their ab, la o
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h: '~C o~Y33d in
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~ he ote fani.1.y to pack,
a1f'i im fin! ?g7_* .D . v~,1M Ways. dri e.-I to reimar for ^ conference and
..3.~cR,'.n }-o T=aII to a`n x "' L on:a Lruktt^klr Xabisjvr., suffered a he` rt attack ~,ol(ier, t ac :inx; his furnitutire 'oror^a.n. Gustav
r iw~ ex d Forem~:- 'ein.inge-LL rn an .' d to f l.oe before the deTorti-ition
' .f v:av; tc.o other deportes;. . are seid to have escaped from the
:raz n at 'YU=ei:stien: ls.,
`711th t. a o ve? e ee ? =.~z~s no one vas able to evo1d sip
nin a cow
275 T1o7I ru es T ere deT orted,
f t :e, 15.1 too, t weir families a' ang while did not. (Ap?'ar-
t1 t' ~r13 i:1i ~s ,:
_ had no The attached = st conU ns only 271 names.)
Sat':e esr cj lly 1'1te:>esting deli:rtrl~:nts ven"e de'portel almost o udi.ng those a~rbich were already :working on Russian orders. inotov
addition. one foreman or dernaty. wa;, taken from, ~'O )2 each department One
c~or~si ;sre~~ of highly try i d
'- }~ ~ V ? ~' e ,f -wro' v we MUl l e rt along
$ 3~i~s` ~`.'$7F 3~
~!Y3 I ~" 'N ~ 1~T. Ch a i~S taken '~E Z iss 'o_rI ,. '"t k, ilai c'f~r + -g ?: C1 ES dismantling of
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"Contax" camera under the name "Volga 11 camera; the balance of the ?R,orkers
are going to Kiev; it is not knor'n chat type of v:ork they .ill do.
6. It is reported that most of the workers were separated from their families
and flown to Russia. The dependents are said to have been in Frankfurt./Odor
and Sorau as of P,, November 111,46. Part of their furniture has already been
unloaded in Germany, it is claimed.
7. The individual workers deported art listed in the following pages b r depart-
id The v,omen.,rarkers deportee and noted on the lists aid not sign contra~:,&
but r~eree taken along as dependents.
The Zeiss workers are supposed to have three destinations: the main group
is to go to a big optical works called "Progress"., in Leningrad; the second
group is to go to a factory 30 km west of Moscow which will produce the
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Research Bureau 1 Reinhold W oizan
(Astronomical Instruments' 'KArl. '3inr'.4,d
Georg Gtinzerodt
Ernst Seifert
Anton Gierdal
Otto Ritter
Fritz Zwigardt
Paul 1,11k
Bruno Gerstenbe:-
GGeorg Mann
Walter Rank:e
Jerbe:rt Lier
research Bureau 2 Karl Papello
(Optical Measuring Instru.. DA-. Werner Notul
ments Command Sets) Dipl. Ing. : ritz Pohl
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Scientist
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flips., Inge ~ ilhel - ela "
Alfred Kstraer
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Paul Glaser
Helmut Eichler
Gerhard Lensk_i
Waite,.. Thomas
Ernst Gelber
Paul Grosse
Willy Dietzel
Aifrcd Kasehllk
Wilhelm Bense
'rant- Peterh?ff
Waiter F1ach
Kurt Jwnge
Hugo Frosch
Karl Bernhardt
Hans Wittig
Emil Kettler
Amandus Flieger
Karl Tuchscherer
Willy Daring
Paul Fritsch
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Research Bureau .3 Di p] a Ing.. Helmuth Ingenleur
^c;. ri`enberg
Hermann Scbrufinnf
Adolf Zi.egert
Walter Wiemann
Gerhard Hecker
Siegfried Ddhnel.
Henry Guidbransen
Heinrich Kraft
Max St raube
Pans Vol ;tljnder
Ernst boo
Hermann Friebe
Otto Nletzschmen. i Konstru cteur
Willy Mtge
Walter Greiner Draftsman
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Research Bureau 4
71ud.oll Dietx?:ic 0
Fritz Straube
Oskar Focke
Karl Rdschke
Hans Schubert
tudol_f Weber
Kurt Rehm
Ulrich Schmidt
Ernst Hanemann
Franz S8ldner
Fritz Stauch
Research Bureau 5 Dr. Herbert Kortuam
(Impro vemsen't of Launching Dr. K9mmerer
Mechanism "Kappa". Turbine Dr. Hans Il.igen
Propulsion, Secret Russian Karl Schumann
Orders) Heinz Schulze
kfaX Hammel
Will i Groh
Kurt Vol l and
B rail Ortlepp
Friedrich Franke
Kurt Flitner
Otto Flitner
?Nerner Seeber
731el .:gut Kremi f ng
Waiter Frommhold
:'..rtur 1 ittig
' 'eim t Dttnkel
,pert Frank
'2,nEelbert Wagner
Dorothea Kahier
Research bureau 6 Wilhelm Hess
(Tools, Equipment) Karl Linnem.an .
Arthur Enke
i inz Hddrich
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