PERSONNEL AND PRODUCTION AT THE CARL ZEISS WORKS, JENA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R004600620011-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: April 12, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFOR AT ?N REPORT CD NO.
Germany (Russian zone)
DATE DISTR.
::. APR 50
SUBJECT Personnel and Production at the NO. OF PAGES a
Carl Zeiss Works. Jena
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The folloving is a list of personalities at the Carl Zeiss works, Jena:
c. Professor Schuster, research and ultre-short sound wave specialist.
d. Professor LBwe, in charge of optical measurements.
e. Birk.enbeil, head of the department for interzonal trade.
f? Herrmann, head of photographic department.
g. Rademacher) heads of.tho optical department
h. nitschler el..
a. Dr. Schrade, general technical controller.
b,a Geheitnrat Harting, scientific controller.
2. The factory produces spectacle lenses, field glasses, night glasses,
telescopes, sextants, microscopes, special lenses, searcFJ.ight lenses,
projectors, lenses for film projectors, camera lenses, and optical in-
struments for medical purposes.
3. Spectacle lenses in about 700 different grindings are now being produced
as compared with 90,000 differently ground types of lenses which could
be produced before 1945. The present capacity is about 1,000 lenses a
day. Because of a shortage of machines, the factory is unable to handle
the present demands for prescription lenses.
A Soviet control officer specially appointed to the plant is particularly
interested in the production of field classes which are at present in great
demand for use by customs officials and the Volkspolizei. The production
of those, however, is insufficient to satisfy requirements because of a
shortage of machinery. The lenses and prisms used in the field glasses
are of excellent quality, but the natal available for the. casings is not
satisfactory,
5. All camera lenses go to the USSR, or are exported elsewhere.
6. The factory at present employs 10, 000 men although a larger number was
employed before the war. About 80 per cent of the pre-1945 machinery is
now being used, and new machines are badly rceeded.
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