PERSONNEL AND PRODUCTION, ZEISS, JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R006000320001-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 21, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 16, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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DATE DISTR.
1 OCT 50
SUBJECT'
Perscnnel and Production, Zeiss, Jena
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1. Dipi. Ing. :alther Fischer is the head of the diamond die section (ZD xlbteilung)
at Carl Zeiss, Jena.* Fischer is also the head of optical production at Zeissm
Ile Eras a close friend of (fnu) 3ielmeyer, fo=ier head of Zeiss optical production
who was removed to Russia in 1946. At that timeyFischer was 3ielmeyer's deputy.
Fischer is not a member of the SED. The tiro other important officials in th,72,
section, both SP,D members, are (fnu) Jeiss, production chief, and .ialther Auer,
his deputy. The diamond He section employs between 100 and 2n0 people and is
not subject to any extraordinary security measures.
2. Jchnert r,fnu), an assistant for the past four years to E. Fiscszar, '.lead of
the foreign trade section at Carl Zeiss, Jena, Tra transferred several months
ago to the Carl T eiss branch in Gottingen, where he is at pre sent technical
ccismercial director, Jehnort is anti-Soviet.
3. Blagin, a civilian, is the Soviet delivery officer at Zeiss., for the A-1 air
training device. The first tyro completed units of this device acre delivered
to the :ussians during, the first rrvelc of August 1950. TL?renty more units are
supposed to be delivered by Zc ss before the end of 1950. The German designers
of the .1-1 training device are 'Ir. llil gars and Bipl. Ing. Pochoi, both of
-coin are said to reside in ..cot Berlin. "hey are not employed by Zeiss but
visit the firm occasionally.
.. Jenaphorr.;,a Carl uoiss pharmaceutical affiliate in Jena, under the direction
of lla' L:_ Xnoell, now employes 060 persons and expects to expand its personnel
to 1030 by the year's end. Streptomycin is one of the drugs being produced
by Jenap1. a ia. 7oitsch (fnu) is also an it:aportant of'icial in Jenapharm.
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5. .tto Sc:ii...Pc.c ctor for cu~,turn ..1 et' ~?ties qt Zeiss, Sc?^iec]L was
Lanc?rat in Arnstadt I-efore he ca .e to Z,~;ics. Pipi. Ing. Erich Wolfram is the
director of the central planning; office at Zeiss. Personnel director is. Hans
Schneider.** Dr. Rudolph Joust is rersonnel chief for VVB and has his office
at Zeiss.
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This document Is hereby regraded to
CONFIDENTIAL in accordance with the
'letter of 16 October 1978 from the
Director of Central Intelligence to the
Archivist of the United States.
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6. The planetarium, publicized as a gift from the DDIR to Joseph ital.in on the
latter's birthday last fall, was finally delivered to the Russians
by Zeiss during the last reek of July 1950.
7. The following Zeiss specialists mre renaved to 1 ssia in 1946:
`.'1ilhelm Hess, construction chief of the dovelo rent office for tools
and machines,who writes his family in Jena from Kiev.
(Erna) Linnemann, group leader in the develornent office for tools and
machines, is also in Kiev;,
(fnu) r'ittor, instrument constructor,
Karl I'3esling, constructor of testing equipment.
(fnu) Ochnerr, chief mechanic for fine measuring in: tr nts.
Dr. (fnu) Kuehn, head of the crystal laboratory, uho ,c family is in Leningrad.
(fnu) Kurtixi, specialist in bomb release equi.:mont.
(fnu) Pultz, head of the construction office for rare finders.
(fnu) Dielmeyer, head of optical production at Zeiss.
Oskar Focke, group leader in the construction office for range finders,
who writes from Leningrad.
.+aither Della Della, ,nntructor of obieatzvnF: ,,
u., Alber, a technical cormercial employee for geometrical equipment at Zeiss, Jena,
and (fnu) Kemnitz, tcchnice"!_ commnercial employee for fine measuring instruments,
were arr?^tcd about 1 August 1950. Kemnitz was later released.
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omczent: ialthor Tischer is not to Ur confused with B. pischor, head
of the foreign trade section at Jena.
a=nt: llama Schneider has recently deviated from the party line and
has been o-Mred to undergo further party indoctrination courses.
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