1. ZEISS SPECIALISTS IN THE USSR 2. POSSIBLE TESTING OF SOVIET MILITARY EQUIPMENT IN KOREA

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• Publication Date: December 17, 1952
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SUBJECT I. Zeiss Specialists in the USSR
20 Possible Testing of Soviet Military Equipment
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Zeiss Specialists in Za Q k
to A group of Zeiss specialists worked in the large vacant optical plant in
Zagorsk (56-19N,38?03E)o In the fall of 1948, the empty workshops were
equipped with machines which had been dismantled in Jena in 1946, The
German specialists were given the task of installing this machinery and
of training the Soviet workers .1 German specialists employed in Zagorsk
included Karl Papello, former chief designer at the Zeiss Plant, who was
paid 75,000 rubles per month; Fritz Brand; Herman Bartel; engineer Otto
Schmidt; and foreman Gottwald Chemnitz,. These specialists were returned,
as were most of the other specialists, to Eastern Germany in late 1951
and early 1952. They were re-employed by the Zeiss Plant in Jena. Some
outstanding specialists, including graduate engineer Oskar Biehlmaier,
a specialist in the field of optics, remained'in Zagorsk. Biehlmaier
was in contact continuously with Dr,.Schade,(:fnu), director of the Zeiss
Plant, in Jenao2
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3. It was alleged that all of the Zeiss specialists, with the exception
of. highly qualified glass grinders and a group of about ten men under
Dr. Konrad Kuehne, have been returned from Leningrad. Kuehne is a
specialist in the field of range finders. Specialists who returned from
Leningrad included Wolfgang Falta, Alfred Kaschlik, Ernst Seifert, Ernst
Haedrich, Kurt Voigtsberger, Franz Soeldner, Franz Voigtlaender, and
Arthur Pulz, Pulz had a leading position in Leningrad.
4. Engineer Kurt Pollack, who also returned to the Zeiss Plant, had worked
as a specialist in the field of spectrum analysis in Leningrad. It is
not known whether he worked with Hohmann or in another plant.3
Zeiss Specialists in Krasnogorsk
5. The German group in Krasnogorsk (55-51N,37-19E) worked in, optical
plant, which was partially equipped with dismantled machines from the
Zeiss Plant in Jena .4 Departments observed there included a photogram-
metric section, a section for sight equipment for artillery and AA
guns, and a section for AA directors. Allegedly, the military equipment
was tested in Korea and improved on the basis of the experiences with it
there.
6. On 27 January 1952, 76 specialists returned from Krasnogorsk. Twenty
specialists, most of whom were employed in the department for AA directors,
were not discharged at this time. The following specialists in the photo-
grammetric department returned from Krasnogorsk: foreman Karl Beck, Hans
Braune, Dr. Paul Goerlich, foreman Walther Hensge, engineer Alfred Klipp,
foreman Pelzer (~nu), Dr. August Sonnenfeld, and graduate engineer
Harald Straubel.4
Zeiss Specialists in Kiev
7. The entire group of specialists. working in Kiev (50-27N,30-32E) were
said to have been returned. This group included glass grinder Karl
Wiesel, Friedrich Issleib, Fritz Roehrdanz, and Paul Neubert, a specialist
in the field of galvanizing techniques,
Zeiss Specialists from Undetermined Locations
$. Engineers who returned from undetermined locations in the USSR and were
re-employed by the Zeiss Plant in Jena included Hugo Frosh; Henry Guld-
brandsen, designer in the photogrammetric section; Dr. Freidrich Ludwig
Hauser; Hugo Keitel; Heinz Kraft, designer in the photogrammetric sec-
tion; Krohs (fnu), Dr. of physics; Dr. Walter Lang; Fritz Peterhof,
designer; Herman`Schrumpf, graduate engineer; Dr. Schulz-Gericke (fnu);
and'Staube (fnu).
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1. The plant in Zagorskl
to available information, was trans errs to Tomsk in 1941.
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3. The German engineers in Leningrad were assigned to the Red October
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