TECHNICAL AIR TRAINING AT THE DRESDEN TECHNICAL INSTITUTE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 22, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: April 16, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
This Document contains information affecting the Na-
tional Defense of the United States, within the mean-
ing of Title 18, Sections 793 and 794, of the U.S. Code, as
amended. Its transmission or revelation of its contents
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COUNTRY fast Germany
PLACE ACQUIRED
Technical Air Training at the
Dresden Technical Institute
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. OF PAGES 3
REQUIREMENT NO.
.094
16 April 1954
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THE APPRAISAL OF CONTENT IS TENTATIVE.
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1. Details have been received of the premises, syllabus, equipment, teaching
staff'and senior students of the Aeronautics Department of Dresden Technical
Institute, known by the 0 name "Abteilung Leichtbau, Fakultaet fuer 25X1
Maschinenbau" (Light Construction Section, Faculty of Machine Construction).
2. The Aeronautics Department is situated at Dresden A16, Duererstr 24. The
promises house administrative offices, institutes, lecture halls and accomo-
dations for about 140 students, and, in addition, there is a separate technical
subdivision in the Dresden Hygienemuseum (Hygiene Museum). There are at present
about 150 students.
3. The syllabus for the 3rd, 5th and 7th terms is as follows:
d t? : general machine design and construction (in the premises of the
Technical Institute, Mommeenetr.), and two hours per week of
voluntary general flying instruction (in the Light Construction
section).
5th termmt general machine design and construction, with emphasis on motive
power, and two hours per week general flying instruction (the
latter and two hours per week instruction on vibration (Schwing-
ungslehre) in the Light Construction Section, the rest in the
Technical Institute).
7th term; aircraft design and construction (mathematics in the Inorganic
Chemistry Institute of the Technical Institute, everything else in the
Light Construction Section). A typical weekle program for the 7th
term course is indicated in Annex 1.
Professors Mueller and Lendmann (see paragraph 6), speaking to the 7th term
0 . f in mid-December 1953, expressed the view that three further terms
would be required to complete the training.
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4. On 31 December 1953, the Aeronautics Department had, in its subdivision
at the Hygiene Museum, a Patriot single-seater glider built by Nagema of
Bad Schmiedeberg. It was learned on 22 December.1953 that a Sokol singl.e-
engined, 3-Yseater aircraft with . .. retractable undercarriage, was
to be delivered to the Institute in January 1954 at a price of between 18,000
and 20,000 DM East. Initially this would be kept at Leipzig airfield;
negotiations were believed to be going on between the State Secretariat for
Higher Education and the Soviet Occupation Authorities with a view to making
Klotzsche airfield near Dresden available to the Institute.
5. The staff instructing 7th term students includes&
(a) Prof. Dr. Richter (fnu), Dr. Ing., of the Aerodynamics Institute;
of the Light Construction Section
(b) Prof. Rudolf Mueller, Dipl. Ing., of the Institute for Instruction in
Tensile Strengths Institute fuer Festigkeitslehre)o deputy chief of the
(c)
(d)
Prof. Herman Landmann, Dipl. Ing.,
a eliding instructor in the GSP
Prof. Hermann, Goecke. Ditil. Ins
(a) Two professors whose names are not yet known. An additional lecturer
was expected on 15 January 1954,
6. The eight 7th term students, whose names appear in Annex 2, attend the same
lectures and do their practical work in two groups of four. With the exception
ofcae man of 32, their ages range from 22 to 24. The older man was apprenticed
to Eeinkels in Rostock, after an elementary education, served in the Luftwaffe,
and matriculated in the Workers and Peasants Faculty of Rostock University
after the war,
7. All the institutes of the Light Construction Section are believed to have
research assignments.
8. Professors Mueller and Landmann have suggested that if there are no vacancies
for the 7th term students in industry, they will be retained at the Institute
as assistants. In November 1953, after a three day visit to the State
Secretariat for Higher Education, Professors Mueller and Landmann indicated that
the Light Construction Section would become an independez institute early in
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nex 1
Monday
11;30
- 13.00
Fundamentals of electrical techniques
Tuesday
8.15
- 10.45
Strengths and stresses
11.15
- 12.45
Science of naterials
14.45
- 15.45
Russian
16.15
- 17.45
Design and construction
Wednesday
10.15
- 11.45
Electrical measuring
14.15
- 17.30
Design and construction (practical)
ThursdW
7.15
- 8.45
Vibration
10.15
- 11.00
Mathematics
14.15
- 16.30
Strengths and stresses (practical)
Friday
8.15
- 9.00
Strengths and stresses
11.15
- 12.45
Mathematics (practical)
14.15
- 15.45
Design and construction
17.30
- 18.15
Vibration (practical)
Annex 2
Abraham, Heins
Juehike, Kurt
Reding, Heins
Loderstaedt, Helmut
Plessa, Gerhard
Unger, Guenter
Wygh, Guenter
Zindel, Kurt
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