JENAPHARM (VVB (Z) PHARMA)

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 11, 2000
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: November 2, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Jenapharm (WB (Z) Pharm )
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COUNTRY Gari arry (Russian zone)
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1. (m (Z) Pbarma) is presently leeated in the &adverk (e ithern Plant)
of the "e.i s;; l an t, near t he S chott i'lant. Llectricity9 stce and: heat are
supplied by th . Zei; s :arc' Schott z taunts 0 __ ha Jenaph Plant is scheduled uo be
r ovod to x orstcndorf near Jena (a." ''l/J Gc' ) and it will then he e.~.pended, ~.'he
vii) a of - !e ' ^nt anaf or, Profecsor _LolJ.lp is in Poratendor; as is ftu a largo sta ,le for anir?als fro: which I3c;O vaccine is (-btained:, In Liarch 19,51.
the Jenaph u Plant Ted 1,350 wor::ers, inclc,:din, office workers and scientists.
Dy they end :,f 19521, after the completion of the plant expansion, the total
nu .ber o;_' employees is scheduled: to reach? 5,000,
2. Considerable research work is carried'an in the Jena;'t~arrn Plant9 in addition to
the regular production. irofessor Knoell has collected about fifty scientists
c7ho work in toce laboratories. The following are the managers of the various
research departments: ?L:rs, achellenberg (Thu), ;.)r., i%actcriolo- cal La:,ora-
tory; r. Bauer (fnu), biophysical Laboratory; Dr. Zopf - (.:nu), ::icroplroto-
graphic Laboratory; rs. Drandl.er (fnu), rr., a forr.:er enployce of the
,olfen Yeast :'actor, , Antibiotic Laboratory I; Er. 1saesser (ice) a Antibiotic Laboratory II; ::iss iuschr. nn (f7au)9 . r., and a) rtre Iiil;pcrt (1:r mi9
^~uhu)io3ogiet),
Antibiotic Laboratory III; Ir. '.einhold: (fhu), Chemical Laboratory I; 'r,,
A,Sc.hubert. (f nu) and hr 0 O..ichuberg, (fnu), Chemical Laboratory II; Dr.
Oaet :, ki (fhu), Chem cal Laboratory III; Dr. 'uechler (fnu), Chemical
Labor Story IV; Dr. Geissler ' fnu), I3ioloLical Laboratory; ?i r. Urban (fnu),
Dr. Fohnsee (fnu), heist Gotthard (fxnu) , i.:iss .b rt (fnu) , Chemist,
P irar::acaloIical *. e:: arta:e;at; an cz i~~ n "ietze (Thu), in the litermtr,; office
(Literarischc:s :luero) of the patent department.
3. Five: to t ?.onty r. alc or female assistant chemists are employed in the labora--
tor es of the plant in addition to the above ientioned leading scientists.
I:acder (fnu), an /LD nergiber, is chief of the perso=ol department; Jahn,
(fhul, an ;3;,D neriber, is chief o: the FDC (Free German Trade Union); Beyer
(fhu), is chief of the STD plant Croup, and Dornschein 'fhu) is core orw
eia1. ralnager. The plant is directly subordinate to P'inister Fritz ~;elb:~.ann.
Dr. : cpf, Dr. Ozegowsl.i , and Dro 3ehra1: a. (fnu), are prop tb1y confidants of
the i "inister a C wore e.:loyed in the plant throuLh ministerial intercession.
One of those erYployees also presumably transmits research data to the Soviets.
Dr. Cartellieri (fnu), presu::ably a son o:' the renowned professor of history
at t:e University in Jena, Professor Al . cr Cartellie in considered a
Soviet sj npathizer, i ro Cartelli eri w ,s a Soviet prisoner of war and boasted
t} at he was an officer in the aovict rrrrr,. fle was also nosp bly a ner;ber of
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the i?ationa1 Co .ttee,
Its from a rre suer of the plant r anagenent that t~.e entire cheriical
p ?arrtaceut icol industry of tine Soviet "one of Germany is to be reorr ani.zedo
:en nationalized enterises, which were previously subordinate to tl VVB
Ph.irrra in Halle (r' 523, 92), are schedules' to be trAnsferred to the leri:,an
Trado Center (DIM) wIi1ch would have t?-,e entire -,dninistration of tticso enter-o
prises under its control. Thus, a lar, e co: bine of all the important c:rut
producing, factories would, be eutablishcd. In addition to the Jenapharr '
:Part the cor,bine would include they ::adaus, ":ecusta, Scherin?,, anC i,eyden
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pharnaceuticri:t products of the Jenapharm P'14nt are
exported to the rest packed ii 1art;e unmarked aripules. In the ._.est the export-
er? druCs are labeled and cold as ".estcrn products, Such exports included
Dccristo] 4>cn1-. In bottles to i:ollai d and ~'p'rance, anc iiepartor,~,l, a liver pre-
paration] produe. d by the bcusta ; lant in Lreucen (: 52/F 29i , which eras
exported in. ! ar ;e a;rmules to Switzerland. In ;'arch 195,1 two tons of crude
'J'ehethion -u re also efportec,. to l oiiand unpacked cnc at a price rruch lower r
ten the r:orld marl;et price.
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"s Awarding to available information the Je n phara Plant was
subordinate to the Main Administration ton' Chemioel..Products, Ministry
of heavy Industry in Berlin during the Soviet Zone reorganisation oi'Industries
wh4ah has been under May since early in 1951. Simultaneously, the following
enterprises were also probably placed under the direct control of the Main
aunt on for Chemical Products: Pbaz seutisches Work Madaus, farmeriy
Dra Madan & Co, at 16/22 Gertenstrasse in Dresden?Radebenl 1 (N 52/F 19);
WecUsta Werke formerly W. Cuypers & Stalling, at 34 Rbrossenhainerstrasse in
Dresden N 23 (N 52fF 28); Pabrik Chandsch.Pbarmaseiutjsaher Praeparate, fat eri7
1, rhering C HO In lerlia-Z 4 (N 51I 75), In Xe rlln-Spindl rsfeld OF 53/t 94)
satct >~rl ezsbof (N 53/~ 94 ; Pbarmaceutisches Work Gobs, formerly
Che?iscbo Fabrik Gob* & Co AQ, at 7a. 13 Leipsigerstrasse in Dresden N 6; and
Chemische Fsbrik von} Hoyden, faxmerly Che deehe habrik von Hoyden. AS at. 33
Yale se in Raj;boal (N 52/F 19).
` The Docristol drug is not identified. Hepartoarl is probably
a preparation similar to Heparin used in preventing blood coagulation onus"
1y extreme acad. Tebethlon is the trade mark for the antl,-tuberculosis drug
made from acetyl aminobensaldehyde thiosemicarbaside.
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