STATUS OF THE ZEISS WORKS IN JENA AND MOSCOW

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• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 21, 1947
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE -REPORT
CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY Germany (Russian Zone
SUBJECT stattui of the Zeis
Jena and Moscow
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Director of Central inteUigeace to the
Archivist of the United Iltates.
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1. 31n,.7.e completion of the dismantlings at the Ziss works In Jena,
only opfical and photographic production hav3 been resm,ad'onder
25X1 the.aew factory diroctor, DIpL Ing, O. Schmidt,. The settion for
25X1 ? the .production of microscopes and mesuring a7,4aratue sufferod
25X1 moOt during the dismantling. ? Schmidt des not articipath the
resumption of microscope production before m1d-1948. Measuring
25X1 . equipment is being made only to fill the factory's.nc,eds. In-
ftmaticn on the status of the spectacle glass and field, glass
SeciAons- is not available.
? 2. 111:the photographic section, the Russians are placing great
emp'hasis on Contax production. The plant directors .are trying to
offset a change in the Russian requisition orders for some of the
machinss,no, being used, 17ince their removal would cut production
in .half: Smployoes in the Contax dopartAent fear deportation
along with the equipment as soon as primary production difficUltios.
. have been overcome. The section director, Windel, fled some time
ago.
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3. 'Prospects are favorable_ in the optical section, which In normal..
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times produced twenty-thn4e percent of the fntire plant oixtput.
This section still has at its disposal over 105 tons of raw
.oTiticel'glass in eighty types, which V;GT1 ascignod to it by Major
Wainer, a Soviat,official whose brotr i t highmvr; Tunatiopary
et Waima?2. Machinery in this sectibn, part17. dareged by fire t.id
not subjct to dismantling, will be reTativily easy to
_?Diroctor Schmidt aims.at.,a monthly Co of 60000. Awo:r hovrs
by theend of 1947 and 1209000 work h.ours by the ond of 1948.
, These figes are twice those previously planmd4 kt present,
? the optical section is working on. a Soviet oTdep for 22000 Tessar
lonSea (f 35, 5 em) to be used in the aircraft machine gun camera,
,Take, developed by Zeiss in 1945. The delivery date for thfs
order is, 30 July 1947.
4. -At the Schotterke-(Zeist), dismantling is continuing if machinet
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are in duplicate, one is retained by the Schottwerke. In. contrast
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by the ftssians to obtain specialized workers through voluntary
tontraots. The form of the contract was worked out together with
the factory director, the plant councilkapd the Free German Trade
Union (FDGB). This contract has not been completed, but to date
its provisions include the continuation of claims to German social
insurance and the right to send back to Germany seventy-five per-
cent of the Money, reckoned on a dollar basis, earned in Russia.
Close, if somewhat strained, relations still exist . between the
Jena business directorate and the former directorate now at
Heidenheim (571, American Zone). The slight tension stems from
the statement of Dr. Kappenbender, of the Jena directorate, that
his colleagues had made too few nreparatione against the possibility
of dismantling, so that there are no reserves of machines and equip-
ment available for production. Dr. Ktppenbender is said to be
counting on the return of the Heidenheim staff to Jena within three
to five years. Until that time, he feels it his duty to hold the
group together and to influence them against receiving or accepting
25X1 any American offers. Dr. nppenbender, in his
twrn, appears to be unduly influenced by his two counselors, Dr.
Gassier and Meyer. The latter is the former Zeiss representative
in the United States,
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Former Jena sections for optics, astrophotography, surveying
instruments,and fine grinding (Peinschleifereien), as well as
the development laboratories, have been installed.
b. Research work interrupted by the end of the war has been
resumed..
Foremen, for the most part, are still employed as machine
workers
do Factory buildings for a new plant have been constructed
according to plans drawn up at Jena. These buildings had
not been oceunied ut to the beginning of April.
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