DEVELOPMENT WORK AT VEB CARL ZEISS JENA

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• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 25, 2008
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 28, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
East GerraM
Dev.lepment ilk at VLB Carl Zeiss Jena
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1. In April 1953, a conference on infrared techni r'l-s crag held ir. -T :u.. T11-
conference was attended by Paul Goerlich of VEB Ca* Zeiss, ]..pl. itag. Baas
of the Central Institute for Telecommunication Engineering, Di^l. Ing.
",V'enderlich of the Telecommunicntjon Engineering Plant at Berlin-
0berschoeneweide#and Dr. Eckardt of the Institut fuer Festkoerperinrschung
(Laboratory for Research ',cork on Solid Bodies) in Berlin. lit the
conference, Dr. Coerlich proposed that the development of image converters
be started at the Zeiss orkd. The other participants of the conference
rejected this proposal and said that the development of this equi'ment
#hq d take place at the Berlin-Oberschoeneweide Telecommunicr:tion
Engineering Plant because such development work had already been started
there by Dr. Eckardt wholin the meantime,had left the plant.
2. From rumors herd in December 1954 it w-s inferred that the development
of image converters h d been discontinued at the Tel.ecommunictition Plant
and shifted to VEB. Carl Zeiss Jena and VEB Zeiss Ikon
Dresden.
3. In January 1955, work on the development of raliation receivers was being
done in Jena. Dr. Krohs, the chief of 1*e Pho ll Laboratory, and Herr
Hauenstein did the main work on infrared techniques. In the Electric
Laboratory, Karl Prinz t: -worked on thermocouple elements and
bolometers functioning or all wave lengths but, of lesser sensivity than
the photocells, which operate only on wave lengths up 'co 3 y1,i.
4. The type KRS=5 crystals produced in Jena have a permeability of 95 %
after deducting reflex losses of 80 The permeability has no absor=tion
maxima or minima and evenly extends from 0.8 to 0.4 p. The absor-tion
sets in below the 0.8 i point. The quality of the material makes it
possible to manufacture from it plane parallel glass 60 mm thick. Frior to
the dismantling of the plant by the Soviets it had been possible to
manufacture such glass up to mm. Cround prisms have
not yet been manufactured in n.z.. ft. flTinte 1853, no quartz crystals had
been produced in autoclaves. It was dcubtcd by Harr Dittner,3that the
material required for autoclaves mould ever be obtained by the firm. 25X1
High-quality Est proof ataeisewhich at a temperature of 5000C may be
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subjected for weeks to a pressure of about 1,000 atmospheres, are required
for use in autoclaves.
'.'ork on the development of the electron-multiplier tube was continued. The
first set including the mains unit was to be delivered to Jena University
by mid-December 1954. In early January 1955, it was unknown y,r thy, ?ai:
had actually been delivered. The development of the e,uipinent had been
cortinued by Herr Hauenstein after Dr. Buch had gone to the Electric
Engineering College at Ilmenau as a lecturer Lam, vacuon techniques.
6. In the summer of 1954, many Czechs, Poles, Hungarians, and Rumanians
visited the :aeiss works in Jena.
7. By late 1954, real progress had made on the development of tn.
iiodel Opremaaelectronic co.npu-'or developed by Dr. Herbert Kortum at the-Lain
Development Tepartment (i n.tiict:lungshauptabteilung) (EHL) in Jena.
Dr. Kortum nlanned to concentrate the development of Putomati.c control
devices for machine tools in Jena. The EIiL had already received =;n order
for the development of automatic measuring and control devices or large
lathes. Dipl. Ing. Dietrich of Development Bureau 0 viorked on the project.
Electric measuring sets were also said to be scheduled for development.
The model Oprema electronic computer,the operations of which could be
preset, was to be put into operation on 1 Kay 1951. The equirment which
is a "4-Address" (?) computer, was designed as a twin machine. The
second electronic conaputer was scheduled to be completed in June 1955,
The latter set is to be used at the Zeiss 'Roo'tcs or the optical computing.
Final decisions on the personnel to operate the set hat. not ;rat b:cn
taken.
9;( In late January 1955. Dr. Ing. N. Joachim Lehmann of the Dresden Institute of
Technology visited the Zeiss VVorks in Jena. On this occs sion it was
le,-rnec th:,t Prof. Dr. ;oillers and Pr, Trg. it-h an: of hiia Dresden Institute
of Technology developed two electronic computers which were built by the
HFT-Ceraetery~erk at Chemnitz (apparatus plant for radio and telecommunicf~tion
engineering techniques). The computer was a so-callcd one-address set
operating at a speed eight times higher then that of the Oprema
computer. Each of the sets built at Chemnitz is fi?'tac in 600 triodes
expressly manufactured for this purpose. Dr. Lehmaxin stated that the
storage unit of the set still worked In an unsatisfactory way and thr:t
difficulties had also been experienced in the making of construction
drawin -s. One of the sets produced as delivered to the Dresden Institute
of Technology, while thp other computer r mained irr Chemnita. It was not
intended to manufnetur?'' more of these electroh'iic computers.
Lehmann also said th't Czechoslovakia had developed a new electronic
computer designed as a 5-address relay computer with :O contact planes
10. On 10 March 1955, the aoviet i iinislei' #o.' china (lip o ~: u. u'R..^.:I a. to d b
6 t?8 ?roans ir_cluclin4.,allegedly, the Soviet tiini cter for Public Health
visited the Zeiss ;s*nwl..n .o-'2 4"-rml'ht#t1d'_ th.a inndal (Thremn Plee'r.rnriia noarut r.
Dr. Kordsum and Dr. :elm Y.aemmerer wanted to explain the set to the Itoeeim,
b t. the Soviet ?Minister of iachine Construction did not appe r to be Greatly
interested in details. On 4 !larch, an Hungarian professor from Budapest
visisted the Zeiss ??orks and in, uired concerning the delivery terms for a
model Oprema electronic computer. On 28 March, the computer was ins-rected
by a correspondent of the Pravda newspaper who had come to Jena via
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