PROPOSED EXPANSION OF THE EAST GERMAN ACADEMY INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON THE PHYSICS OF SOLIDS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R015500220007-3
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 1, 2006
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: December 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFOHMATION REPORT CD NO.
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SUBJECT Proposed Expansion of the East German Academy NO. OF PAGES
Institute for Research on the Physics of Solids
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25X1 l. At the begirlninr of 1952, Prof _ Friedrich 4'.'8glieh applied to the DDR
25X1 new equipment
governr.ent for funds to be used to expand the Academy Institute for
Rese,..rch on the Phy .ics of solids., Berlin-T3uch, of which he is
director. The planned expansion consisted of the construction of an
unspecified number of new laboratories as well as the purchase of
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the request was not
granted.
Durir.p the summer of 1952, _-dglich approached ;,alter Ulbricht, with
whom he is on excellent terms; he obtained Ulbricht4s promise that the
money v.ould be rw.,de available 'despite the objections of the Academy
25X1 of Sciences, shortly thereafter, the funds materialized. At the end
25X1 of Sept e.--ben 1952, ho-never,
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1governr.:ent surport of the F.rojected expansion was with-
drawn and 118cl ch's plans ult,. rrately rejected,,
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