MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION ON ZEISS JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R010700060003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: March 13, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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- VJ7S~?_I ENCE GENGY REPORT
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ir. 1t 2 ciss Jena there is increasing and lack of contact between
;he director, Hugo Schrade, and other top employees,. It is believed that
ichrade did not confide to anyone the details of his trip to Moscow in May
i951 the man nearest to Schrade is Dr. Jobst, formerly
reac of personnel and now Fichrade es personal secretary,. Jobst is a Communist.
badctlf Mueller.. the production manager, is also close to Schrade because 50X1-HUM
uis technical knowledge makes him indispensible to the director,, Mueller
as not a member of the SED and boldly sweeps aside all political considera.-
2;; ainc;e the late Geheimrat liar ing head of Zeiss Jena's scientific staff,q
as in failing health early in i9lr a paper was drawn. up on I March, whereby
the direction of Jena's scientific section would be divided between four Zeiss
scientists, This deci.sicr was pat into effect on I June, The group of four
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scientists is com'pos: d of the following
a? Drz, Kohler, telescopes and astremonical. i.nstnartrentc;11_~
ba Drs, Zollner3 photograr by",
Professor Schuster,, ba.si`~ physical and crrertical research;
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d. Dr, B'F ge aoid,, i iicromet:Y _cs ,,
3 Af. to Geheimrat Hartings death in .ieptemoer i95l two pc3si'ole successors
to his position as head of Zeiss L ^.:aa s scientific staff 1Mer'e mentioned
uno.?fi.cially,, The, more probable one 'I is Dr,, diittbrodt.,
'omi'~iunist member of the )-DR's State Piarning Gomn1i.ssioc, The other.' rumored
=uc,,essor is Dr, Steenher-k: :formerly with Siemens in Berlin., who has been
in fuss is since 1946, Dry. Steenb?ck's wife was repatriated to Germany in
the spring of i%I _ aria is living in Jena. This latter possibili_t is reported
to 'lave been voiced by Professor. Fr edr?ich Moeglich,
). ,. Dr,, Lucas and Dre. Gause of the / e_i.ss % ena scientific staff, spent ten days
i n 3ud.apest in Jarniar.,y l( 6CR They were not allowed to visit optical plants
during their stay in Hun -ary,, but spent the time in a general exchange of
Lnf )rYt tion t .lh Hungarian op c specialists
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