EAST GERMAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A001000450003-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 20, 2009
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 29, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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Approved For Release 2009/02/20: CIA-RDP80-0081 OA001000450003-8
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COUNTRY East Ger .y
SUBJEC f East German; Academy of Science
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DATE OF
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DATE DISTR. 29 April 1953
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l., in Parch 1953`, thr- Direfrtor of the German itcademy of ;~cienccs, Josef N;:L~.as,
advised the heads of all institutes affiliated with the Academy that they were
requested to dismiss all scientists working for them who lived in West Berlin,
Naas added as justification that these scientists were permanently exposed to
Western influence n He furthermore stated that this step was only one of
several designed to protect East German scientists front Western influence and
to associate them more closely with Russian science m This had been requested
by Deputy Minister President Walter Ulbricht at a special Academy session on
22 and 23 January 1953.
Most of the Institute heads protested the step to Naas, pointing out that the
performance of the institutes would decrease sharply if the measure was a.,ctu-
ally put in of fect,.l/ As a result of the protests, the Personnel Department
of the Academy of Sciences ordered th_it all technical personnel up to and in-
cluding engineers working in Academy Institutes who lived in West Berlin
should be requested to move to East Berlin immediately. Those who failed to
do so by 15 April 1953 would be dismissed. No rule was established for scien-
tists unable to move to East Berlin by the deadline. According to a statement
by Naas, each case would be considered individually,.
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i./ Corrrnent., It is estimated that of the roughly 40,000 people living
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Ber in who are employed in bast Berlin, about 1,500 are scientists
.,:d technical personnel from the rank of engineer up. This figure, of
;curse, not only includes personnel of Academy Institutes, but also other
scientists and technicians such as doctors.
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